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==The original text==
 
==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
 
First published by Davis-Poynter Ltd., London, 1972

Revision as of 07:19, 8 August 2017

An African Millionaire is a play by Edgar Wallace.


D.C. Boonzaier (1980) wrongly lists it as The African Millionaire.

The original text

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 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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