Another brief but interesting source of information about Rex Ryan/R.R. Ryan. The 1939 England and Wales Register provides details about Rex Ryan and his wife, Anne. Rex Ryan's occupation is given as 'writer (fiction)' - not surprising given that he'd written a succession of thrillers under the name R.R. Ryan and other pseudonymous names for Herbert Jenkins. This indicates he'd given up acting and managing theatres by this time. The occupation of his wife, Anne, is given as 'unpaid domestic duties'.
The address on the book contract for R.R. Ryan's final novel, No Escape (1940), is the same as the residence given in the register - 80b Lansdowne Place, Hove. The contracts for his previous novels give the address 16 Granville Road. Electoral rolls and telephone directories indicate that the Ryans moved from Granville Road to Lansdowne Place in 1939.
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