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...Picks up the Oddments and Remainders of Life Ever since I read Of Human Bondage I have wanted to meet W. Somerset Maugham. Here is a man with bitter truth in his work, with brilliance in his execution, with a sense of grim tragedy and deep irony. Now he is in Manhattan rehearsing a new play. He seldom stops long anywhere. He travels constantly, seeking out the bizarre places of the world, studying people and customs, picking up stray bits of character, strange events, and filling his notebooks generously with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Somerset Maugham | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...Maugham is dark, pale - with eager, somewhat quizzical eyes. He is detached. I cannot imagine his being perturbed. His speech is slow and his anecdotes are brilliantly effective. He strikes me as a man who sits outside of life watching with almost cat-like eagerness. He understands life too well, he is top aware of events to treat them with tenderness. Perhaps this is because he was at one time a doctor -or, at least, took a degree in medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Somerset Maugham | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

Macready and Kelly will now attempt to fly around the globe. Lieut. R. L. Maugham, will pilot the Curtiss Army plane-speed record of 245 miles per hour-across the continent in a daylight flight. But more solid significance is attached to the coast-to-coast flight than introduction to further records. It means a tremendous boost for the Air Mail plan of continuous service between New York and San Francisco. It points to the entire feasibility of commercial air lines across the continent. Ultimately no business house will be able to afford any mail but air mail; no business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Coast to Coast | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

Copley.--The Henry Jewett Players in Somerset Maugham's "Lady Frederick." Evenings at 8.15. Matinees Tuesday,, Thursday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Theatres | 10/18/1920 | See Source »

...Here the shadow on the screen cannot replace the living personality, nor the "flash" suggest the spoken word. To attempt to "screen" one of the searching character delineations of Sir Arthur Pinero, one of the seathing satires of Bernard Shaw, or one of the witty farces of W. S. Maugham, would be quite as futile as are the condensed novels of Thackeray which appear complete in one newspaper column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCREEN VS. SCENE. | 3/9/1920 | See Source »

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