The Master's Voice
STATION 3YA played a recording of an Edgar Wallace short story, recounted by the great man himself, The story, which was about the sister of two condemned thugs who tried to murder the hangman, as he went to work on the King’s Highway, had all Wallace’s dramatic gifts and lordly disregard of all the probabilities; but one really listened to
the voice. Wallace was not really a good or skilled reader; he halted and failed to change tone; but his extraordinary personality gave the whole life. Those selfeducated uncertain accents were the great suctessful careerist he was, and that jerky violence was genuinely the man who wrote a novel in five days and lived like that for 15 years; certainly a personal triumph, if not a literary one,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 11
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131The Master's Voice New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 11
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