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...Circle (by W. Somerset Maugham; produced by William A. Brady). Revived last week, 17 years after the original Broadway production starring Mrs. Leslie Carter and John Drew, Maugham...
...SUMMING UP - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
...London in 1907, at the age of 33, William Somerset Maugham became a success. Four of his plays were produced, and three of them ran for a year. He has remained successful ever since. "In my twenties," he says, "the critics said I was brutal, in my thirties they said I was flippant, in my forties they said I was cynical, in my fifties they said I was competent and now in my sixties they say I am superficial." Last week, in The Summing Up, Author Maugham gave readers passing reasons for agreeing with the critics of each decade...
...Summing Up begins with a discouraging catalogue of Maugham's reasons for not writing an autobiography. He has a poor memory. His life has not been adventurous. He has written so many novels that he can scarcely distinguish fact from fiction in his work. "I can never remember a good story," he complains, "till I hear it again and then I forget it before I have had a chance to tell it to somebody else." But he realized that it would "exasperate" him if he should die before he had written down his thoughts on the subjects that have...
...There is not much to choose between men," Maugham says. "They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness." Doubting that he is any better or worse than others, he explains his own career in terms of his temperament. His parents died before he was ten, and he was educated by a severe clergyman uncle-he would wake up at night dreaming that his mother was still alive and that he was home again. He was small, shy, sickly, and stammered badly. He confesses to an "instinctive shrinking" from his fellow...