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Hearst's King Features Syndicate last week paid $1,500 for the comic-strip rights to Duchess Hotspur, Rosamond Marshall's flashy, trashy, bedroomy bestseller about a flaunting, extravagant queen in 18th Century London. Purpose: to run it in November as a cartoon-&-text feature in the New York Mirror and other Hearst papers-now tapering off on their anti-dirty book campaign...
...Rosamond Marshall, best-selling peeper into milady's chamber (Duchess Hotspur), explained why women were outdoing men in writing best-sellers about bedrooms. "Men are too inhibited,'' said she. "They cannot write a good book dealing with sex without getting themselves in it. They are, to put it bluntly, too muscle-bound...
Spurred by its first successful invasion of the fiction field, Prentice-Hall kicked over the traces of promotional conservatism. It spent some $12,000 on corny ads, handouts (see cut), and a crosscountry autographing jaunt for Author Rosamond Marshall...
James E. McKihrick '49--Rosamond Johnson (Winsor...
Kitty was taken from a lending-library novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall. Not the least remarkable thing about the movie is the blandness with which it denatures the heroine of the original book-as loose, if not as active, a hussy as the notorious Fanny Hill. Sample dialogue from the book: "His naked body was darker than the linen sheet on which he rested. ... I bent over him and kissed him the way he had kissed me. . . . Suddenly his teeth bit into my flesh. I gave a little moan...