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...WRITER'S NOTEBOOK (367 pp.)-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
...Esquire, opposite Symphony Hall, offers Laurence Oliver's fine production, "Henry V" at special student rates. The Majestic, on Tremont Street just below the Common, is featuring Somerset Maugham's Quartet. Now in its sixth week, the film improves with...
...Quartet," an English expert like the author, dramatizes four of his neat but contrived short stories which enjoy this virtue of carrying the audience along at a satisfying pace. Of course the usual Maugham vices are sometimes present...
...second short opus. "Alien Corn" would like to be a bit of tragedy. A young man, frustrated in his sole ambition of becoming a concert pianist, takes his life. Here one of Mr. Maugham's vices creeps in. Lack of depth of emotion allows this piece to deteriorate to the level of a tabloid suicide at the end, though the whole thing is done with rich piano accompaniment, to be sure...
...Colonel's Lady" Maugham is at his best in satire of cultured English society, and superb acting combines to make this the best of the four pieces. Indeed the production and acting are on an unusually high level throughout the four stories and it is only in analysis that the picture seems to sag a bit in the middle. The general effect, as one leaves the theater, is that "the very old number," as Maugham now likes to call himself, and everyone else who has had anything to do with "Quartet" have turned out a highly entertaining group...