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Mackenzie Maugham...
...famed in other fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...
...Constant Wife. And what have the privations of monogamy to do with wifely constancy? queries W. Somerset Maugham in a play for children over sixteen. His heroine, Constance Middleton (Ethel Barrymore), observes her husband's liaisons with an indulgent smile, tacitly assumes the right to go and do likewise -and does. Her husband can take it or leave it. As the curtain falls, he takes it with a hard gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love...
...Alice Terry) is elected as the source of supply for the experiment. While breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, under the hypnotic direction of the doctor, she meets sympathetic Dr. Burdon who understands how hard it is for a girl to do as she wishes under these conditions. Somerset Maugham conceived the tale. Rex Ingram directed the film, tried hard to make the gruesome fantasy appear real, succeeded partiallv...
Rain. After four years of Rain, Jeanne Eagels pours forth the dismal woes of Sadie Thompson in a last two-week stand at the Century Theatre. Somerset Maugham's story, made into one of the most successful plays in recent years, tells of a jaywalking girl from Honolulu and a fanatical, suppressed missionary who meet on a South Sea island. Miss Eagels, after some fourteen hundred performances has, to all intents and purposes, become Sadie Thompson. Actors, producers, public thundered her a tremendous ovation...