An African Millionaire
An African Millionaire is a play by Edgar Wallace.
D.C. Boonzaier (1980) wrongly lists it as The African Millionaire.
Contents
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
Translations and adaptations
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.
http://freeread.com.au/@rglibrary/EdgarWallace/Plays/AnAfricanMillionaire.html
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