Star Island, Saralec's Silver Spoon and Greetings From Glenna have been some of Marjory Hall's more successful vocation plus...

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ORCHIDS FOR ANITA

Star Island, Saralec's Silver Spoon and Greetings From Glenna have been some of Marjory Hall's more successful vocation plus career plus romance novels for girls, but this, though built along those lines and exhibiting the same good values, is not so successful. Anita, in her first year at dramatic school in New York, realizes it's no go. Going home to a small New England town then, where her father manages his own large department store, Anita faces boredom (that she realizes is her own fault) until a trip to Mexico brings on a reunion with a former beau grown suddenly fascinating, who is there on assignment from an extract company, to learn the process of growing vanilla beans. Inspired by Jimmy, Anita goes to work for the same company when she gets home and after six months is placed in charge of customer relations with a chance of going to Mexico herself. Undoubtedly youngsters in the same boat will eat up the many involvements of Anita's life, and profit from the meal, but literarily, some of the many characterizations and episodes could be dispensed with.

Pub Date: March 1, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1954

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