Elgin Courant and Morayshire Advertiser: Friday 6th January 1905

Literary and Arts Notes: … … Mr. Anthony Hope had, we understand, recently completed the manuscript of a new novel, which is entitled “Ora Pinsent”. It will not be published serially but will be issued first in book form towards the end of the year. Mr. Hope’s recently published novel, “Double Harness” has been very successful – both in this country and in America.


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Western Daily Press: Saturday 23rd July 1938

Fiction: … 9.5: Semi-Detached: A radio comedy adapted by Jack Inglis from the P.G. Wodehouse novel, “Sam the Sudden”: Cast: Sam Shotter, Jack Hobbs; Mr. Pynsent (Sam’s maternal uncle, proprietor of the Pynsent Export and Import Company, New York), Peter Madden; Lord Tilbury (proprietor of the Mammoth Publicity Company, London). Norman Shelley; Mr. Wrenn, Carleton Hobbs; Kay Wrenn (Mr. Wrenn’s niece), Lyn Neilson; Claire (Mr. Wrenn’s cook), Joan Young; Hash Todhunter (a sea cook), Gordon McLeod; Willoughby Braddock (a friend of Sam Shotter), Kenneth Kove; Cornelius, Charles Barrett; Chimp Twist (an American crook), Malcolm Waring: Dolly Molloy (an American crook), Inez Gibbs; Soapy Molloy (an American crook), Michael Carr; Secretary to Lord Tilbury, Doreen Heath; A stenographer, Ethel Lodge; Clerk to Cornelius, J. V. Chapman; produced by Peter Creswell.


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