It is six years since Edgar Wallace died, but he is still a best-seller. His books and plays are s¥ll in demand and he.is the only author whose name is ranked by the cinema box-office With the names of the stars, Edgar Wallace, Ltd, formed two years after the writer's death, with palatial offices in the West End. makes an average annual profit of £15,000. The first purpose of this Company, of which Wallace's three children are directors, and a solicitor iş chairman, was to settle the £64,000 claims agai the author's estate. Creditors have been paid 20 shillings in the The genius of the world's greatest writer of popular thrillers is likely to provide satisfactory dividends for the shareholders of Edgar Wallace, Lid. for many years to come, The minimum price for the film rights in a Wallace story is £1,000, and there are still many unscreened, "Adolphe Menjou' for a Shilling Adolphe Menjou should now be uffering from writer's cramp, judg-from the number of, autographs Man delights to improve on nature. Despite the evident satisfaction of the hen with her handiwork man has gone one better and has embroidered the egg. I have heard of only one exponent of this. type of needlework a Frenchman who displayed specimens of his skill at the Paris exhibition, but there may be others, of course, who practise egg-embroidery less publicly, Aser thg exhibition, thousands of diplom medals and certificates of merit were handed out to exhibitors. It seemed that no one had bee: looked, Yet the egg-embroiderer bored 6,000 holes in an ostrich e applied 300 yards of silk in 252 colours, spending altogether 2500 hours on the job, received not so much as an honourable mention. The disgruntled man is protesting at the slight.
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