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...Manhattan to plug a new movie (Trio) adapted from three of his short stories, Somerset Maugham told reporters that his writing career was almost, but not quite, over: "If I think of an occasional little piece I will write it. When you have written for a great many years, it's a habit you get into and rather hard to break, and if I don't sit at my writing table each morning, I don't know exactly what to do with myself...
...starter, the new show offered a glossy version of Somerset Maugham's Malayan melodrama, The Letter. Madeleine Carroll, playing her first TV role, was the unfaithful wife who murders her lover. Though the show had its little flaws, mostly caused by first-night jitters, it was a production of considerable finish and skill. In a medium that could use more good actors, directors and scripts, Theater promised to be a first-rate drawing card. Already programmed are Jane Wyatt in Kitty Foyle, Elliott Nugent in The Male Animal and Producer-Narrator Montgomery himself in Ride the Pink Horse. Budgeted...
...Somerset Maugham adapts nicely to film; "Of Human Bondage" and "Quartet" have shown this pretty well. It is certainly true of "The Moon and Sixpence." Maugham's reworking of the life of Paul Gauguin, of a man who chucks social mediocrity to become an intense, self-centered, and occasionally cruel painter, comes over with most of the book's neat narrative intact...
...amateurs were old hands. A taxi driver recalled that as a child he had drawn pictures of ballplayers instead of playing ball. A more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...
Quartet. Four Somerset Maugham short stories packaged into a witty commentary on British foibles (TIME...