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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 8

; Mr. Cecil Raleigh, th.e English.dramatist whose death was recorded in ■yesterday's cables, ranked among- the foremost of melodramatic authors. He ;was never with problems, ,or :no\v school theories, and in'no wise jcould he be placed on the same plane : of writers for. tho stage as Sydney 'Grundy, Sir A. W. Pinero, John Galsworthy, or Oscar Wilde. His plays were frankly, melodramas, but they were always melodramas oonoeived in reason,' and carried out on a scale which made the Drury Lane drama, a standard for the world in its own particular .class.. .Mr. Cecil Raleigh was a son of the'late Dr'. John Fothergill Rowlands, and after the latter!s death went upon the Later'he took up journalism, writing for "Vanity Fair,' "The Lady," anil "The Sporting , Times." Whilst secretary of the Pelican Club, lie became acquainted-with Mr. Geo. R. Sims ("Dagoriet"), arid with him wrote "Little Christopher Columbus," "The Grey Mare," and' "The Guardsman." On the/death of-Mr. Henry Pettitt, the late Sir Augustus Harris commissioned Messrs. Henry Hamilton and' Cecil Raleigh to write the annual Drury Lane drama, arid together they wrote "The Derby Winner,'' "Clieej-,'Boys, Cheer," "The; White Heather," and, handed, Mr. Raleigh wrote "Hearts Are Trumps," "The Prico-'of Peace," "The Great Millionaire," "The Best of Friends," "The' Flood Tide," and ''The Great' Pink Pearl.". He was also partauthor of. "The Pointsman," "The Sins of Society," "Marriages of Mayfair," and "The Whip."

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