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...GENTLEMAN IN THE PARLOUR-W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran...
...Author Maugham writes with few illusions about himself, about his writing. Says he: "This book is the record of a journey through Burma, the Shan States, Siam, and Indo-China. I am writing it for my own diversion . . . I am a professional writer, and I hope to get from it a certain amount of money and perhaps a little praise." Exotic parts have a kind of fascination for Traveler Maugham, but little glamour. His book is consequently better reading than most such records...
...Mandalay, Author Maugham met the old lady who had been the real cause, in her youth, of the British annexation of Upper Burma (Road to Mandalay, TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham, 56, married (to Syrie, daugher of the late Dr. Barnardo, famed founder of homes for waifs), studied to be a doctor, instead traveled, took notes, observed, wrote. Medium-sized, mustached, with fat stomach, square jaw, Author Maugham lives at Cap Ferrat, France, but travels whenever, wherever, he wishes. During the War he served in the intelligence service, British Army; was stationed in Russia, where bad, meagre food made him ill. Critic Hannen Swaffer once wrote Author Maugham asking him how to pronounce his name. Replied Maugham: "My name rhymes with waugham, as in 'a waugham...
...money. . . . I want to improve my mind. . . . Most of the time you will find me bobbing around Europe. . . ." White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could be disguised...