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...MAUGHAM (W. Somerset) The Constant Wife...
...burst of passion," is enough to bring the average moviegoer hustling to the theatre. The picture "Rain" will take care of his emotions,--faculties be damned. But when there hovers in the back-ground of this super-picture a touching drama and a powerful idea, written down by Somerset Maugham for his play of the same name, the intellectual man, the "well-read" man of the movies, will find it worth his while to see this screen version of a famous play,--emotions be damned...
...NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though Publishers Doubleday, Doran blurb The Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit...
...Maugham tells his eventful narrative sparely, almost drably, seldom allows even his mouthpiece Dr. Saunders such Maugham-like summations as: "Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humor and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence...
Rain (United Artists), based on Somerset Maugham's story and more famed play, made memorable by the late Actress Jeanne Eagels, tries to justify the ways of Heroine Sadie Thompson to Man. Director Lewis Milestone has made semi-respectable, unexciting, the old sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat...