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...Human Bondage--at the Paramount and Fenway--An inferior version of the Maugham novel, which was portrayed on the screen once before in a manner able enough to make superfluous this Paul Henried-Alexis Smith attempt...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage batted about by Authors Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and Charles Rolo (Wingate's Raiders) and by Critic John Mason Brown...
Theater of Romance (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Somerset Maugham's The Letter, starring stage and screen star Miriam Hopkins...
...Steele is an old hand at contriving tales, some of which he tries to tell as Conrad or Maugham would. Those selected in this book - 24 stories written over a span of some 30 years - remain as readable as they were salable in the '20s, when they were hot stuff in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. Gullah dialect, a Mohammedan marriage ceremony, the way a schooner's boom may swing when she luffs - such varied "local color" is thickly applied...
...nothing to say except, with one accord, "Mr. Steele is making us up." This is an old-fashioned kind of mediocrity. The new-fashioned kind, reportorial and unplotted, has been so done to death that readers might like these tales for a change. Or they might like Conrad and Maugham...