Ben Travers Quotes
The really great batsmen fall into two categories. One comes to the wicket saying to the bowlers ‘I am going to slaughter you’. The other comes to the wicket saying ‘You can’t get me out’.
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Birth: | 12th November, 1886 |
Death: | 18th December, 1980 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Writer |
Ben Travers was an English writer. His output includes more than twenty plays, thirty screenplays, five novels, and three volumes of memoirs. He is best remembered for his long-running series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 30s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and later television productions.
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