Hollywood, Feb. 10.
Mr. Edgar Wallace, the popular novelist and playwright, who hag been seriously "ill with, double pneumonia, died this morning. He was 65 years of age, Educated at a London Board School, he enlisted in the Royal West Kents. Te was not until' He Was 25 years of age that Edgar Wallace's capacity as a writer was discovered, It was duc to Mr. Hy 'A. Gwynne, the present editor of the "Morning Post," who, in 1899, was busy organising Reuter's war service in South Africa, that the talents of Private Wallace were given an opportunity to display: themselves, 'Taken out of the army, he acted'
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with some prominent leaders in "gto found the Rand' "Dally Mall 'Returning to, England in $905, it sani the flowing ear Strack-dhe popular fancy. and with"The Four Just Men' Since then he has written a largo namber fof extremely popular fiction, the ove= Dat. being only. exceeded' by the fviity with "which. the. public, haw oot sty while hin plays have beom, anything, even mare's his, leisure moments, Eagar Wallace took a very keen invarest in acting, sunning hig own sable ast year Mr, Wallace added. to hin"'manifold intereat by ent politics. Tu the Britis election in October he stood' aga Liberal candidate "in a. country division and although he started' newspaper in that district to promote hia candidacy he failed to secure election, Ox. Wallace was famous the world over for Aik "mass production" of fiction of the detective and thriller type.—Renter, witeless message from London ited February 9 conveyed the fre intimation of the' illness which stated that Mrs, Wallace was Teaving for Hollywood immediately.
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