Auction Date:2013 Dec 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
British novelist, playwright, and journalist (1875–1932) who produced popular detective and suspense stories. Autograph manuscript, signed at the conclusion, “Edgar Wallace,” three pages, 7.5 x 10, [December 11, 1928]. Very vivid reflection on stage and film and art in general and about Berlin, where the writer was staying to attend a performance of his play ‘The Squeaker,’ which at the same time, premiered on Broadway, under the title ‘The Sign of the Leopard.’ In part: “It is two o’clock in the morning and very cold. Does Berlin ever go to sleep? It is the most restless and yet the most restful city in the world. It has the hum of London but there are times when London is quiet and the streets are deserted but in Berlin the night revellers going home meet the early risers going to work…there will be snow I think—I can smell it in the air. I suppose I should be wise and go to bed. But to leave a play that is three parts written is very difficult for me. Still I can get up early in the morning. I wonder how ‘Der Zinker’ will be received? The company is an excellent one, but it is curious to listen to your own play in a language which you cannot understand. And yet it is fascinating to listen to these rich German voices and watch the actors move and gesticulate…It is eight o’clock in New York, the curtain is up on the premiere of ‘Der Zinker’ (they call it ‘The Sign of the Leopard’ there)…How hard everybody works and how serious they are…They work hard on the stage and in the studios…there were two or three English actors in the cinema-studio I visited this afternoon. They were sorry that the film was finishing…Bed is a nice place but that wedge shaped bolster under your head is an abomination…What was the name of that young German actress?…Very lovely…I wonder how she would film?…God in plus fours…art has many expressions.” Scattered toning and foxing, otherwise fine condition. The Squeaker was one of Wallace’s most popular stories, being adapted to film on four separate occasions—it is the story of a mysterious fence whose criminal opponents found themselves arrested or killed by snake venom. Wallace writings, particularly mentioning his works, are highly desirable.
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