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Gauguin without Maugham. A Manhattan gallery last week put on the best Gauguin show yet seen in the U.S. (including 40 paintings and 44 prints and drawings). Not included: the Boston Museum's 14-by-5-ft. masterpiece entitled Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Whither Are We Going?, which Gauguin painted on burlap sacks after trying to poison himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seen through Sunglasses | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...paintings were good enough to make most visitors forget Somerset Maugham's smoothly dramatic Moon and Sixpence-which borrowed many of the circumstances, but few of the inner realities, of Gauguin's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seen through Sunglasses | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Last week Author Isherwood finished work for Warner Bros, on screen versions of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, and his good friend Somerset Maugham's Up at the Villa. Larry, youthful hero of Maugham's best-selling The Razor's Edge, is.said to be modeled on Isherwood. He is now at work on a novel about physically and spiritually "displaced persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fable of Beasts & Men | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...friends were often disgusted by Woollcott's grossness, sickened by his gush, ashamed when, for example, he hurled himself on his knees before Novelist Somerset Maugham in a crowded elevator, crying "Maitre!" But many of them loved and respected the man inside the Fabbulous Monster. They knew that Woollcott was boundlessly kind and generous without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fabbulous Monster | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel, The Razor's Edge, whose search for faith ended in Vedanta, is said to be modeled on Isherwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Universal Cult | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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