SERIOUS HUMORIST
LONDON, 12th July. . Mr A. P. Herbert, who represented “Punch'’ at the third Empire Press Conference in Melbourne ip 1925, abandoning his customary humour a few days ago, turned serious in order to tell his London readers the story of an audacious swindler, still at large, and who is masquerading as D. B. Wyn'dham Lewes, the noted humorist, who contributed to the “Daily Mail.” The imposter, who had deluded the actor, Malcolm Keen, leading actresses, and several Guardsmen, induced Mr Herbert to allow him to sleep in his bouse, after telling a plausible story in a theatre about own-, ing a private aeroplane, in which he invited the ladies of a theatrical company to fly.
The “Evening News” now states that the impostor described himself as.an Australian in order to victimise the London business representative of an Australian weekly newspaper.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 5
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