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Infatuation. Titles are running badly this week. This is what they called Somerset Maugham's Caesar's Wife. It tells of an English minister to Egypt whose pretty wife fell in love with a pretty undersecretary. Corinne Griffith and Percy Marmont make it good enough...
...amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier reels...
...Somerset Maugham, The Letter. Editor Ray Long. Hearst's International...
...Significance. Readers who prefer literary works which do not require, for assimilation, anything more than spectacles, will perceive after reading the first sentence ("She gave a startled cry") that this is their kind of book. It is true that Mr. Maugham's material has served many a dingy charlatan; true also that his style is undistinguished. But he has a rare grace: humility. He wants to tell a good story, but he does not distort the pattern thrt life imposes upon even the most shoddy events. He writes sensationism with an air of having his manner dictated absolutely...
...Author. W. Somerset Maugham took a medical degree at Heidelberg, practiced for a while in the slums of London. Now 50, black-eyed, broad-framed, diffident, he is a restless traveler. His most famed novel, Of Human Bondage, a best seller ten years ago, has had a steady sale ever since. Miss Thompson, a short story of his, was made into a play?Rain?with startling results. His dramas, however, are potboilers. His other novels, short-story collections : The Moon and Sixpence, The Trembling of a Leaf, The Hero, Mrs. Craddock, Liza of Lambeth, On a Chinese Screen...