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...RAZOR'S EDGE - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
...Somerset Maugham, always a discreet man, has been so imprudent as to live to a ripe age (70) when novelists are usually far past their prime. But, unlike some of his other books, The Razor's Edge is not a potboiler. Nor is it a mess of dotage. It deserves to rank after Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Moon and Sixpence (1919) as one of his three major novels...
Confessional. Maugham disarmingly calls attention to the fact that he is making his first attempt to write a novel about Americans: "I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. ... I do not pretend that [the characters] are American as Americans see themselves; they are American seen through an English...
...half ago, seven years after quitting the ring. Someone had sold him a bad painting of a clipper ship and it disturbed him. He tinkered with it. After six months he had changed it into a steamboat. Then he saw a movie, The Moon and Sixpence-Somerset Maugham's story about Paul Gauguin. Next day Mickey bought an easel, a palette and a fistful of brushes...
...Somerset Maugham anticipated another theatrical version of his 22-year-old story Miss Thompson, which became Rain. Coming to Broadway was a fancy edition called Sadie Thompson, "with book and lyrics supplied by Howard Dietz and tunes by Vernon Duke. . . . Anton Tudor will direct the dances and plans to utilize a Polynesian chorus in addition to a corps de ballet...