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...Moon and Sixpence (United Artists) films Somerset Maugham's famed novel more faithfully than any book has ever been filmed before. The result, despite the efforts of a superb cast, is more like a still life than a moving picture...
...Author Maugham based his unfriendly fable about genius in the raw on the life of unfriendly Painter Paul Gauguin. Like Gauguin, Genius Charles Strickland (George Sanders) reaches his prime as an overdomesticated stockbroker. Like Gauguin, he abruptly quits all that for Paris, semistarvation and oil painting. He takes over the studio and the wife (Doris Dudley) of a piteous fellow painter (Steve Geray). Later he leaves the wife to suicide, and heads for Tahiti where he marries a sleek young native with a Mona Grable smile (Elena Verdugo), slaps out masterpieces by the gross, dies (lingeringly) of leprosy...
...tennis courts, cricket fields and gaming tables, or drifted from Paris hotels to Manhattan hotels, from London to the Isle of Guernsey or the British West Indies, usually fetching up at Monte Carlo or Cannes. There he hobnobbed with other well-heeled amiable drifters such as Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Sax (Fu Manchu) Rohmer, P. G. Wodehouse, the King & Queen of Siam, the King of Sweden, Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most...
...Oppenheim's free life. But it makes a memorable last section to his book. The Oppenheims had a chance to leave France on the overcrowded, death-ridden ship Somerset Maugham described in his Strictly Personal. They left via Spain. The crawling trains were crammed with human misery. Everything whereby Oppenheim had lived -his money, his reputation, his dignity-had lost its value. What happened to the old couple was quite unimportant. Their self-concern in the midst of a collapsing world is grotesque. But this sense of futile nullity in the face of crushing impersonal forces gives to Oppenheim...
...been one of the worst seasons in a generation. Such big names as Maxwell Anderson, Somerset Maugham, Kaufman & Ferber were rubbed out weeks ago. In over five months, not a single original play by a U.S. playwright has scored a real success. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street are by Englishmen; Junior Miss is a hack dramatization of surefire short-story material. Only healthy child of Broadway this season is musicomedy, with Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Sons o' Fun, Best Foot Forward, High Kickers...