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204:"Max was one of the sweetest, gayest and most endearing people I have ever encountered", Betty Roland wrote. Tom Inglis Moore said, "He was such an attractive person in himself, and he had outstanding gifts. As a writer he was at the top of the profession as a dramatic writer for radio, a first-class craftsman. His stage plays showed that if he had gone on, he would have become an important playwright. I felt that Max had the talent to have gone even further in achievement. He had such a vitality that it is very hard to realize the truth."
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Australian literary life: "The Sydney P.E.N. owed him a great deal for all the hard work and enthusiasm of his years as President." Ernest William Burbridge, Representative of the
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1439:: An Australian Adventure Serial, 1951–1954.
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398:Afford's play
393:Lady in Danger
385:Lady in Danger
329:Hagen's Circus
319:
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310:Wonder Stories
298:Wonder Stories
296:, appeared in
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273:Neva Carr Glyn
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1500:
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1436:Silver Ridge
1434:
1426:
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1926:1954 deaths
1921:1906 births
1415:, 1941–1949
1375:, 1939–1946
1001:Black Magic
938:Radio plays
811:Black Sheep
726:. In June,
690:Negotiation
285:Peter Finch
269:Peter Finch
210:English PEN
168:Broken Hill
120:Early years
1915:Categories
1876:Max Afford
1794:26 October
1605:References
1286:in Sydney.
547:BBC London
488:Pas de Six
456:Winner of
245:Advertiser
109:Max Afford
72:1954-11-03
51:1906-04-08
25:Max Afford
1487:Adventure
1468:Grey Face
1048:Avalanche
1007:Blackmail
674:Blackburn
600:selected
590:Afrikaans
115:Biography
1906:AusStage
1887:Obituary
1646:8 August
973:, (aka.
756:plus an
437:PEN Club
157:Vaucluse
142:Adelaide
130:Parkside
1889:in the
1878:in the
1526:Sources
1453:series:
1336:, 1974.
1274:, 1949.
1139:Genesis
1115:, 1936.
911:, 1944)
827:Colonel
740:Outcome
728:Collins
712:Collins
668:serials
645:The Sun
491:in the
467:(later
313:in 1931
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1497:(n.d.)
1489:(n.d.)
1479:, 1941
1423:(1942)
1383:(1940)
1367:, 1940
1359:, 1939
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1268:, 1948
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1210:, 1939
1202:, 1939
1194:, 1939
1186:, 1938
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760:and a
606:Polish
425:Smithy
187:Mosman
93:Spouse
829:, or
776:Drama
771:Works
551:Cairo
539:Egypt
181:Death
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