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...Services Rendered (by William Somerset Maugham; Sam H. Harris, producer). A novel in shortcuts, this Maugham play deals with an English family and its friends. The War has been over 15 years, but its wounds still fester. Father Ardsley is a solicitor, a portly British character of the type that sings carols on Christmas cards. He has a wife, who he does not know is about to die of an incurable disease, and three daughters. Lois (Jane Wyatt) is pretty, selfish and extremely attractive to a rich older man. Ethel is bitterly disappointed in an earthy, loutish farmer whom...
...spectators before seeing For Services Rendered realized that Mr. Maugham, better known for drawing-room drama, was still brooding about the War. Few will consider his present play, an incompleted gallery of promising portraits, a dramatic milestone. But no one will soon forget Fay Bainter's tense impersonation in the one three-dimensional role the piece affords...
...Betters (RKO) is a well photographed version of Somerset Maugham's acrid comedy about U. S. parvenues in London society. Less a play than a gallery of portraits, it has the merit of showing its subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson...
...Mills (wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills); mysteriously, of a knife wound in his chest, while on vacation from his Paris bank with his third wife Martha Ederton Fell, onetime Follies girl; in their hotel room in Solo, Java. Following the fiction pattern of Novelist Somerset Maugham, a guest broke in the Fells' room when he heard Mrs. Fell's screams, found Fell on the floor gasping, "I did it myself. It's my fault." Mrs. Fell testified her back was turned when she heard him rise from the table, stagger and fall with...
Peabody Playhouse--"The Sacred Flame." Somerset Maugham's play, done in a truly professional manner by The Stagers. This week only. $1.25 top price...