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 Milligan Alice Milligan Alice Milligan (4 September 1865 in Omagh– 13 April 1953 in Omagh) was an Irish nationalist poet and writer, active in the Gaelic League. She was born and brought up as a Methodist in Gortmore, near Omagh, County Tyrone. Milligan's father was the writer Seaton Milligan, antiquary and member of the RIA. Alice was one of eleven children and from 1877 to 1887 attended Methodist College, Belfast, after which she completed a teacher-training course. Together with her father she wrote a political travelogue of the north of Ireland in 1888, "Glimpses of Erin". She wrote her first novel,