An African Millionaire

An African Millionaire is a play by Edgar Wallace.

The original text

Written by Wallace when he was editor of the Rand Daily Mail, it was based on the life of Rhodes**.

First published by Davis-Poynter Ltd., London, 1972

Performance history in South Africa

1904: Produced by Leonard Rayne in the Opera House in Pretoria/Cape Town (??*) in 1904. It was a dismal failure and closed after 6 days.

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier. 1980. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.): p. 420.

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