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Harold MacGrath was a novelist, a short-story writer, and screen writer. He wrote at least a novel a year, had short stories in the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Ladies Home Journal," and became one of the first well-known writers to work in film. "Hearts and Masks" is a romantic comedy which was adapted for the screen and for a Broadway play called "Three of Hearts." Alice Gaynor lives on a country estate with her Uncle John. He won't let her have friends, and she annoys him so much with her pranks that he decides to go away. While he is gone, Alice dresses as a maid, and meets Richard Comstock, an author traveling incognito. She says that she lives in a boarding house, and turns her uncle's home into one, using the servants as guests and the housekeeper as the landlady. All goes well until Uncle John returns, and the action moves to a hotel, a hunt club ball, and an encounter with a gentleman crook before the masks are raised and hearts are revealed.… (meer)
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
It all depends upon the manner of your entrance to the Castle of Adventure. One does not have to scale its beetling parapets or assault its scarps and frowning bastions; neither is one obliged to force with clamor and blaring trumpets and glittering gorgets the drawbridge and portcullis. Rather the pathway lies through one of those many little doors, obscure, yet easily accessible , latchless and boltless, to which the average person gives no particular attention, and yet which invariably lead to the very heart of this Castle Delectable. The whimsical chatelaine of this enchanted keep is a shy goddess. Circumspection has no part in her affairs, nor caution, nor practicality; nor does her eye linger upon the dullard and the blunderer. Imagination solves the secret riddle, and wit is the guide that leads the seeker through the winding, bewildering labyrinths.
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The original 1905 publication also contains "The Princess Elopes."
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Harold MacGrath was a novelist, a short-story writer, and screen writer. He wrote at least a novel a year, had short stories in the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Ladies Home Journal," and became one of the first well-known writers to work in film. "Hearts and Masks" is a romantic comedy which was adapted for the screen and for a Broadway play called "Three of Hearts." Alice Gaynor lives on a country estate with her Uncle John. He won't let her have friends, and she annoys him so much with her pranks that he decides to go away. While he is gone, Alice dresses as a maid, and meets Richard Comstock, an author traveling incognito. She says that she lives in a boarding house, and turns her uncle's home into one, using the servants as guests and the housekeeper as the landlady. All goes well until Uncle John returns, and the action moves to a hotel, a hunt club ball, and an encounter with a gentleman crook before the masks are raised and hearts are revealed.