Show Author Dying Urges Friends to Sell His Expose of Shakespeare INDIANAPOLIS md Mar 9 United Press Although John M. M 1 Maxwell Indianapolis author play play- TIght and newspaperman Is dead 1 the manuscript which lie he considered big masterpiece will continue to go gothe gothe the rounds of rs' rs offices until it Is accepted r worn oUt For years Maxwell the man who gave ga Theodore iser Dreiser his first start starton on a Chicago newspaper and whose plays attained consid rable notice on had sought Fought to win favor favorat at af publishers publishers' doors with what ho he maintained was an expose of oC the thereal real authorship or of works In this work entitled The Man Ian hind Behind the Mask lask Maxwell held Id that Sir Robert Cecil was Ute the au author thor tho of all Shakespearean an sonnets and plays lie He spent pent gathering gath- gath th- th ering data In an attempt to prove this AI Aided ed by Dreiser Maxwell mailed i and his manuscript of five volumes tellIng how tIle the Shake Shake- speare was an English noble who WIlO desired anonymity due to the fact that the higher classes ot of those days were we-re ashamed to show erudition Rejections In letter and formal print printed d cards filled lila his scrapbook His plays plas lie he sold without trouble The most famous of these entitled l The Killer had a long run on Broadway But publishers rs even those who were his friends would not Man Behind lind the Mask Maxwell fell III last st Before Be- Be fore ore he died he rolled called three newspapermen news news- to his bedside and made them promise to keep tep tIle the manuscript on Its travels until it was At the present time the treatise Is in the hands or of an Indianapolis publisher Its author died before lila last rejection slIp slIp-or possibly an COuld acceptance 1 be 6 received |