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EDGAR
WALLACE
WORKS SINCE HIS DEATH
By HAROLD CONWAY
No chapter in the varied and adventurous
life of the late Mr. Edgar Wallace is as remarkable as the financial achieve- ments of his works since his death in Holly. wood in February 1932.
At that time it was disclosed that this prolific and overwhelmingly successful writer had left claims on his estate totalling £120,000, with as- sets nil.
In the last five years more than £60,000 has been earned in royalties and other pay. ments respecting his novels and plays. 128. in the £
A list of figures was shown me recently by Mr. S. E. Linnit, co-executor with Mr. J. Theodore Goddard, the solicitor of the Wallace estate and managing director of the company formed tu administer it.
Mr. Linnit told me that it was through the combined efforts of Sir Patrick Hastings, KC., a close friend of Mr. Wallace, and of Mr. Goddard that the various creditors received far more than had ever been thought possible, and for the estate to be placed on a profit-earning basis,
The original total of claims was reduced on a legal basis to £64,000, and in the first two years, when the estate was still in the Official Receiver's hands, the income from the sale of Wallace novels and film rights amounted to £35,000.
The entire sum was devoted to paying creditors, all the smaller ones receiving 20s, in the £.
When · Edgar Wallace, Lid., was formed I took over another £14,000 in debts-including nearly £5,000 owing to the Inland Revenue as income tax on the earnings of Wallace's writ- ings since his death.
£7,000 For Children
So rapidly did the royalties continue
to flow in that the remaining part of <£12,000 agreed debt in respect of the Wyndham's Theatre lease, which need not have been paid off for six years, was fully settled in two years./
Within two and a half years of the company's formailon--the figures are
made up only Lo last October-the earnings amounted to approximately another £25,000.
WHO POSED IN BATH
Lovely Heloise Martin, student at Drake University, for a series of pictures typifying a day in the life of u Des Moines, and former New York show girl, who posed co-ed. Appearance of the pictures in a national maga- zine, one of which showedher in a shower bath, pre- cipitated trouble. Now there is the dean to be faced!
PRINCE IN
ASYLUM
FOR 15 YEARS-
By DUNCAN FORBES
A MAN who might have been to-day head of the strong-
est Balkan kingdom celebrates the anniversary of his renunciation-in an asylum.
It is 27 years since the heir to the throne of pre-war Serbia, Crown Prince George, renounced his right of succession on March 16, 1909,
the day.
At the height of the fiercest Aus- trian bonbardment of Belgrade he would order his chauffeur to drive him, with a number of timorous staff officers, up and down the Sava river- front in full view of the binoculars of the Austrian gunners.
But not a single citizen of Jugo-
Shells fell all round the solitary Slavia the kingdom Prince George
hurry.
"Let us stop and observe the This has made it possible not only would have inherited-will celebrate car, but Prince George refused to to satisfy all the remaining No reference to him will be enemy positions," he would say to ereditors, but also to pay out a sam allowed in the Press, nothing will the staff officers crouching in the of roughly £7,000 in dividends to remind the Serbian people of the bottom of the
the car. On one occasion
Shell fell so near the four children of Mr. Wallace,
leader. they lost. Me. Linnit is one of the directors of
the car that two offlcers were blown a company which, on Friday. is re
into the road, but 'Prince George viving A
Wallace thriller, Squeaker," at the Strand.
Sword in hand, he headed many u If this
escaped without a scrutch.
proves as popular as The Frog" at the Prince's Theatre, a remarkable tale
charge at the enemy batteries. of the after-death fortune achieved by the world's master of fiction thrills should continue successfully..
"STREET SINGER"
EXCELLENT SHOW
LAST NIGHT
There was an appreciative audience at the Queen's Theatre last night, when the Philharmonic Society again presented "The Street Singer." --
No loncller royal figure exists than Prince George, eldest son of the late King Peter the First of Serbia, whose grandson, the boy King Peter, does not even know that his greal-uncle, e-man-who might have been king," is still alive.
"CHARGE THAT WALL"
Prince George, who is now 49, was the eccentric son of the Karageorge dynasty, which returned to Serbia after the murder of King Alexander Obrenovich and Queen Draga In 1903.
He had early shown signs of his Incipient bursts of insanity, and in fits of fury, he would turn on his servants and beat them.
On one occasion, he coromanded stone wall, and his troops to charge laughed when they obeyed.
HE DISAPPEARED
But the war unhinged his mind further, and when peace came his wildness and eccentricity became more noticeable than ever. Nobody was surprised when one day madenp Prince George disappeared.
He had been certliled by two physicians as insane and removed to confinement in strongly guarded asylum near Nish, In Serbia.
The asylum lies only a few miles from
the
main railway line which intes Constantinople and Calals, and the thundering Orient express can be seen through the trees by the lonely Imprisoned man who might have been king.
It symbolises for him the freedom, the contact with the great outer world, Vienna, Paris, Belgrade, which he can never regain.
or his own free will he re- The play was admirably handled, the second act in particular being nounced the succession, reallsing most entertaining. The settings and In his saner moments that he was
too unstable to be king. dressing were extremely good. Al the principals were in good form, Before this, diplomatie circles had whilst amongst those who @gured in been shocked by his imprisonment, minor roles mention should be made at the command of his father King: of Elsic Alexander and Ning Feter, in a Belgrade fortress after he Valentine. The former, pert and had slapped his military instructor, vivacious, danced, sang and chattered a French colonel, in the face. her way happily through the piece, But these peccadilloes and eccentri- whilst the fatter gave a very finished cities were quickly forgotten when in Mr. and Mrs. David M. Bigger left piece of work as Violette, imparting 1914 Serbia was plunged into the for Shanghal yesterday aboard the to it just the right touch and singing World War. Prince George soon be-C. P. Empress of Japan, where Mr.
most effectively.
The final performance' takes place to-night.
came a popplar hero to the Serbs for his incredible bravery.
He seemed to bear a charmed life.
D. M. BIGGAR LEAVES
Biggar will remain for six months, relieving the manger of the Shang- hal office of the Chase Bank.
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