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...razzle-dazzled Fitzgerald. But her portrait of the Left Bank expatriates, who raise a decorous kind of hell and live in fear of losing their Fulbrights, is caustically funny. One mustached featherwit, who has been bumming around renting himself to novelists as a readymade literary character, fumes because Somerset Maugham wouldn't see him. "But Somerset Maugham doesn't write novels any more," Sally Jay objects. "That's just it! ... Ran out of characters. That's where I could help...
...will reveal its backstage machinations tonight at six p.m. in a color broadcast on WHDH-TV's Dateline Boston show. Members of the HDC will give a half-hour summary of the production of the recent Theatre Workshop, by Somerset Maugham...
Died. Frederic Herbert Maugham, 91, onetime (1938-39) Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, elder brother of Novelist Somerset Maugham; in London...
...energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with olives, French pastries, champagne, two cognacs topped off by two cigars. Churchill also drove 22 miles to dine with a Riviera neighbor, Author W. Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed his birthday by making his perennial remarks about quitting his literary endeavors once and for all. Peering into the future, he also decided that his slight physique may entitle him to many more years: "If you are small, death may quite likely overlook...
Cozzens' favorite writer is Swift. Among moderns, he prefers Maugham, Huxley and the early Waugh-all of which suggests that he is an ironist in default of being a satirist, possibly for lack of humor or savagery. Like any good storyteller, James Gould Cozzens peddles no "message." Says he: "I have no thesis except that people get a very raw deal from life. To me, life is what life...