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...young Dr. Burt-White, then head house surgeon of great St. Bartholomew's Hospital, winner of two scientific prizes for his work on puerperal sepsis, was dropped from the medical register for "secret and improper association with a married woman patient." Unlike the disgraced British doctors of Somerset Maugham and other tropical romancers, he did not fly to a torrid oblivion of drink, cynicism and "mammy-palaver." Since his expulsion Dr. Burt-White has been studying...
...KING-Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
...Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor's Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with...
...picture was Heavyweight Challenger Max Baer. Still addicted to all-star casts, MGM was ready to release Dinner at Eight which contains almost every performer on the lot except John Barrymore's macaw. RKO promised Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed Mae West louder than Marlene Dietrich, planned to stop sending its feature pictures to outlying...
...just fished up out of Lake Como lies in one part of the Villa Grazia. the Count and Countess mend their difficulties in another. Signora Zanotti has meantime been jilted by her last lover, so it looks as though things might pick up for the Zanottis. too. William Somerset Maugham has made a handy translation from the Italian. Actress Anderson, giving an amusing if reminiscently Fontannesque performance with her hair bushed on top of her head, considerably brightens a bright comedy. Actors Ridges and Carroll clearly earn the applause they receive. Best Sellers (by Edouard Bourdet; Lee Shubert, producer...