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Arriving in the U. S. last week, Novelist Somerset Maugham predicted a vastly different post-war Britain. "I have a feeling," he said, "that in the England of the future evening dress will be less important than it has been in the past. I think it will be a more democratic England. I think there will be no more rich people and I hope there will be no more poor people...
Among refugees who arrived in North America last week were: Poet Robert William Service, short, red-faced, British-born author of many a hairy-chested ballad (The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose...
Forced to flee his British Ministry of Information job in Paris when the victorious German columns entered the city, Maugham made his way south through the chaos of collapsing France while London papers listed him as missing. For days he waited for some means of transportation, finally received orders to embark on one of two colliers sent to rescue British subjects from the Riviera...
...Marseille the ships proceeded under French convoy to an unknown destination. Though one woman insisted on first-class accommodations and another searched vainly for the games deck, the passengers on the whole soon made the best of a situation that rapidly grew worse. "As we were short of water," Maugham continued, "little was available for washing...
...MIXTURE AS BEFORE - W. Somerset Maugham -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Ten stories, which he says will be his last, told with the elderly tartness and urbanity for which the author (last reported escaped from Paris to Gibraltar) is famed. All are infallibly readable, and if tricky, transparently...