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...Hersey not only encourages the writing of plays, but gives several lectures on the subject. During my stay in that course he devoted at least six lectures to a study of the play "Sadie Thompson," both on the legitimate stage and in the cinema, and by reading the Somerset Maugham story, showed how the dramatist had adapted his material. He also made a careful study of "Hindle Wakes...
...Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem piece, with mullioned windows and C. Aubrey Smith as a friend of the family, was obviously in order. This line of reasoning explains what would otherwise be the somewhat startling revival of Somerset Maugham's sardonic play The Sacred Flame, which has appeared twice in the cinema since its performance on the Manhattan stage...
...stark narrative concerns a crippled aviator (Colin Clive), his beautiful wife and what naturally happens when the cripple's eminently healthy brother (George Brent) tries to be helpful to them both. Under its surface of gallant behavior and carefully constructed situations, Maugham's play was charged with a cool, premeditated horror which caused most audiences to dislike it. The film develops the superficialities of the story more extensively and resolves its crisis with .suicide instead of murder but it remains an embittered and exciting study of primitive perplexities in polite society. As the invalid's nurse...
...never forgotten Miss Eagels' performance is Tallulah Bankhead. Nor has that wilful, luxuriant actress, daughter of the Democratic House floor leader and niece of a Senator, forgotten that William Somerset Maugham, from whose short story Rain was taken, vetoed her for the part of Sadie Thompson 13 years ago. "Here," said she last fortnight in Philadelphia, where her revival of Rain opened, "here is where I get even with Willie Maugham." Last week Manhattan critics had a chance to see if "Willie" Maugham had indeed erred in preferring Eagels to Bankhead for the Thompson part...
EAST AND WEST?W. Somerset Maugham ?Doubleday, Doran...