Books: Mrs. Rinehart

She Has Never Written a Failure

Mary Roberts Rinehart's own dramatization of The Breaking Point is now finished. It will soon go into rehearsal. Since December she has written two plays, has made many drafts of each, has discarded one and decided that the other will do. Mrs. Rinehart works swiftly and constantly. Her life has been a succession of amazing successes; but they have come as a result of a genius for understanding the public mind, an acquired ability to write, an unusual executive sense, and a gift for fortune—luck if you...

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