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SATURDAY,

JULY

1951.

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CHILDREN'S EDGAR WALLACE

TYPES 10,000 WORDS A DAY

ANID BLYTON, the children's Edgar Wallace, has published a complete list of her books, Her fans

have to pay 6d. for it. It shows that this prodigious yarn-spinner, still in her forties, has 250 books in print. She estimates that altogether she has written some 300.

When Edgar Wallace died at nearly 57, his output had reach- ed 170.

Wallace's dally 12,000 words were put on paper with the help of two lightning secretaries and a dictaphone. Enid Blyton uses no such aids.

,"

She sits on a chiniz-covered swing couch in her garden at Beaconsfield with 01 portable typewriter on her knee, and the story pours from the production line at the rate of 10,000 words a day (15,000 at full pressure).

She has six books at the proof stage to correct. She has just finished writing another, nature book. ("I just worked on It at odd timca").

WOMAN OF THE WEEK

by EVELYN IRONS

see, the children's appreciation is my real reward").

Her book of children's prayers, "Before I Go to Sleep," brings in £300 to £600 a year, she says. That is one cheque she does not receive. It goes to a children's charity,

22 percent

23 publishers also get hand- educational text-books. It's

dizzy sum. written letters-pages of them, on both sides of the paper-de- tafling all the preliminary busi-

ENIO BLYTON

lo a new black dress she takes time oil to ga ta Ascot,

Sho

CAN A MAN JUST VANISH?

To the question which has now got everybody arguing BERNARD WICKSTEED

adds fuel... for argument

-OW man simply Ile disappeared by simply

Hdisappear? How can going down the Strand, possibly

Nobody tho

vanish into thin air for a banana, or thick air for that Strand noticed him because they matter without leaving a didn't know he was Victor Grayson or that he had just trace?

disappeared.

"Elementary, my dear The initial art of disappearing Watson," sald Sherlock is dend easy. 'You just dissolvo Wicksteed, filling his pipo into the scenery.

藏您

Victor

with shag. "Your ques- Grayson did in the Strand and tions are prompted, I take I did in the Queensland bush. it by the case of

missing diplomats 7"

the

Well, how can you disappear

SNAP! IT GOES

without wanting to. They'd

without trace? Lots of people PEOPLE sometimes disappear:

would like to know, and I could

even name a tow whom I'd be give anything not to have dis

You've read about willing to assist in their dis appeared, appearance if they'd promise not them. They are people with

amnesia.

to come back.

Disappearing is a relative term, In January this year there were 19,588 deserters from the Armed Forces. As far as the Services

they concerned

have vanished, all 10,000 and odd of them

are

I've vanished myself, I've done it several times. If he's still alive, there's a farmer in Queens land to whom the disappearance .of

young cowhand called Wicksteed is an unsolved my

a

siery.

Something goes snap in their minds and they can't remember who they are. It happened to a

girl in Nantwich, Cheshire,

recently.

•

She was identified 12 days later by ber mother, who saw her photograph in the paper and phoned the police to say the girl was her daughter, Colleen Boosey, of Palmers Green, N.

does

But sometimes no one recognise the photograph, and the victims of amnesia may stay

ever.

The farmer drank, and when vanished for years, even for he was drunks he liked to let all the pigs loose and drive them into the house. One morning at breakfast when the place was full of pigs I just walked out,

I said I was going to get some €883 to go with all the and I never went back.

A

MURDERER?

con,

[f the records of the New York police I may well be describ-

ed as a missing person.

if people can vahiah without wanting to, how much easier, my dear Watson, it is for people who do want to.

Supposing those two diplomats were men who for some reason did want to disappear. The first part is easy because when the actual act of vanishing took was place nobody knew what going on, so nobody, took any notice.

By the time people had begun They had me in for questioning to look for them, they could have oncs because I looked like a man

who had murdered a taxi-driver. completed their arrangements for

hiding, If that was their plan. After letting me go they told me to report back every day. But I didn't.

But what about the police? The police of half Europe aro

I can," says Enid Blyton.

The old White Star liner looking for them. Their pictures reckons that she must have a Homeric salled at midnight and and full descriptions have been singularly obliging sub-con- I called with her because I studied by tens of thousands of scious mind.

reckoned I'd had New York.

Some of her child readers seek her out at Beaconsfield: she has met thousands of others at meetings organised-by-book sellers and publishers.

At home she is Mrs Kenneth

Д

сп one

other at

Grayson,

and

True enough, but then so have

already? That's one of the reasons vanishing isn't so hard...

WANTED

DD to her income from the 259 A children's books her 22 per-

- people. Did, I do the murder? Ahat cent royalties from all the com- mercial

products to which the

Wouldn't you like to know? Enid Blyton

name is leat

One of the neatest vanishing the pictures of Freeman Reese. Letters arrive from children

acts of all time was performed In Who's he?~~~You've" "forgotten- diaries, writing paper, jigsaws. all over the world, and she Not to mention the card and

1920 by Mr Victor answers every one. In her own board games she devises as

former Socialist hand ("Children would not care sideline. Plus royalties on over Darrel Waters, wife of a sur-

Her 200 school readers and other on, mother of two daughters, M. for Colne for typewritten lellers").

Valley. art student at St. booked in at a Androw's University and the Strand hotel.

Her and boarding-school. Sometimes a snooty critic

ordered books, two-servant house is well order d the Blyton

whisky lashes at Sometimes a children's librarian cd: so is her three-acre garden, soda at the bar, walls that his clients aro kept by the gardener aided by drank half of it

the chauffeur. "One of my ex- and then van- GRAYSON travagances,” she said, indicat-Ished, just like missing M.P. ing a thousand bush roses in that

The barman didn't eually see beda laid out round a pool.

him fade away. But one moment She has a big Daimler, but he was drinking his whisky and She started to write as a she

herself the next moment he wasn't. prefers driving schoolgirl in Beckenham, where she was born, treasures a col- around in her small, fast, green lection of 500 rejection slips. Her royalties for herself, except in first published work was a love his hospital in a Rolls.

poem in Nash's Magazine, for special circumstances when she which 16-year-old Enid got one may reduce it for the sake of guinea.

ness.

too

She is a company SOMETIMES the business is "I am not a malicious person,"

Blytonised to read Dickens.

Enid Blyton types serenely on,

says she.

complex but mere legal in- tricacies never defeat this one- woman book factory. She calls In no lawyers, herself drafted the standard contract (15 percent t

4.

saloon. Her husband drives to

Golf, Bridge, TV

getting better presentation) She was a competent pinalat, is angered by suppositions that she spent a lot of money which she imposes og all her and her father disapproved of

Studiand Bay golt publishers alike.

the writing; planned a musical buying

course. "My husband bought career. Instead, she broke away One supulation she makes and took the Froebel training,

ay it," she says. no niggling about numbers. The tought in a kindergarten,(" Both are keen golfers: play first edition must be 25,000, or always loved children and was twice a week. They also enjoy the deal is off. Several of her happiest in their company.") tennis on their own hard court, books have sold more than She burst into authorship when, play bridge, watch TV, work in 1,000,000 copies.

as a student, a publisher paid the garden. How much does she maker her £72 down for a set of six Far more than the £10,000 English readers for schools, year usually estimated, Prob-

ably nearer the 250,000 which Subconscious cinema

Edgar Wallace was said to get.

With all her colossal output, Enid Blyton is no slave to 'her'

art

In a smart new black dress,

don't know exactly the SHE sits down at her type she took time off to spend Gold says, looking her quizzer straight in the eye...

writer without plot

Cup Day at Ascot, with her or husband and elder daughter synopsis. Figures, she says, a Gillian. Quite a stop from the pear before her eyes as on a Like other individuals. making cinema screen. They move, they old days when she taught in a Sunday school at a lot of money, Enid Blyton has talk, they sing their own original Baptist turned herself into a Imited tunes. Other characters appear: Beckenbam. company. That, she says takes the story unfolds. "All I have care of the receiving end. ("You to do is to type it out as fast as

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St. Malo.

LET GO. ZUL KILL YOU!:

London Express-Herton,

By Frank Robbins:

FREEMAN REESE was··a coloured GA. deserter who is believed to be the 1044 killer of Police Constable James Booth at Burton-on-Trent,

When" a

man

has committed

any murder tre is bunted pretty

remorselessly,

When the vic- im is police- man you can be surc

nothing is left

to chance. Yet

Freeman Rega

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still

missing REESE: Ave years after after $ "Cars the murder.

Posters with his photograph

and the words “Wanted for Murder were pasted up all over England. His ingerprint classi fication, which is

has been radioed to the police of 38 nations.

No

can say that aft Negroes with American socents aro eo common in England that they pass unnoticed. But- thay, ara too common to go running to the police every time you see one

And, so are people, who look. like missing diplomats,

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