W. P. Lipscomb visiting that country. Ealing sent Lipscomb to Australia to write "Bitter Springs" (1950) and a version of the bushranging novel "Robbery Under Arms". Ealing sent him to Africa to write "Where No Vultures Fly" (1951), which became a big hit. He then adapted a comic novel "His Excellency" (1952). Lipscomb produced and wrote "Make Me an Offer" (1955). He was one of several writers on "Seven Wonders of the World" (1956). He wrote some BBC plays. Lipscomb then worked on some other projects with Australian connections: "A Town Like Alice" (1956), from a novel by Neville Shute; "Robbery Under Arms"
Alice Cornwell (‘Phil’) Robinson. In 1888 her friend Fergus Hume wrote a novel, "Madame Midas" about a "Mrs Villiers" which was obviously based on Cornwell. Cornwell sold the "Sunday Times" in 1893 to Frederick Beer, who already owned "Observer". Beer appointed his wife, Rachel Sassoon Beer, as editor. Cornwell's estranged first husband died in 1893 and she married Robinson in 1894. Cornwell died in 1932 in Hove. Alice Cornwell Alice Ann Cornwell or Alice Whiteman or Alice Robinson (1 January 1852 – 7 January 1932) was a British goldmining industrialist and newspaper proprietor. She made her fortune from gold and floated her