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British Novelist William Somerset Maugham is a great believer in firsthand adventure as a source for fiction. He turned his own experiences as World War I intelligence agent into the spy novel Ashenden. Last week the aging, 66-year-old author had abundant material for a World War II novel accumulated during a 20-day voyage of escape from France in the company of 1,300 British refugees...
Refugees whose whereabouts were unknown: French Trade Union Leader Leon Jouhaux and Belgian Walter Schevenels, secretary to the International Federation of Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...
WIVES TO BURN and MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman -Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two excellent novelettes about death, India, a ship afire at sea. For the Somerset Maugham trade...
...SALVATION OF Pisco GABAR-Geoffrey Household - Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Rogue Male, twelve short stories as pungent as good Maugham, with at least one staggering piece of condensation: " 'I blame nobody,' said Gabar. 'We are animals. Will you have a drink...
...dates and titles are: March 7, "lbsen and His Influence;" March 14, "The Perfect Shavian--G.B.S.;" March 21, "Beyond Realism--Chekhov;" March 28, "Barrie vs. Galsworthy;" April 11, "Three English Comic Writers: Wilde, Maugham and Coward;" April 18, "Modern Tragedy--Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell Anderson;" April 25, "The American Theatre Comes of Age--Barry, Kaufman, etc.;" and May 9, "The Drama of Social Significance -- Odets, Saroyan...