Word: maugham
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...raison d'etre except their devilish cleverness. But in the decade of grace 1920-30 we seem to lack the flair. So it is small wonder that a play like "The Circle", which the Repertory players are presenting this week, should prove too much for its author, Somerset Maugham...
Repertory--"The Circle," by Somerset Maugham...
Repertory--"The Circle", by Somerset Maugham...
Hollywood seems firmly determined to break what Somerset Maugham declares to be our eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be amused". Comedies, such as "Let's Get Married", now at the Metropolitan, are steadily playing a more frequent part in the repertoires of the more able actors and actresses that filmdom boasts...
...Shanghai Gesture. John Colton, one of the able creatures who created Rain out of W. Somerset Maugham's story, has written another spectacular play of foreign parts and strange people. It has a high flavor of sex and a flame of melodrama. China is the general setting, and a Chinese disorderly house the specific. The central character is the vicious old procuress, capably played by Florence Reed. It seems that the English had insulted her at some early point in her existence. Wherefore she got an English child into her house. Pretty soon the English parents arrive. This combination...