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...schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when she saw the film for the first time: "I didn't believe I could act so-so nastily...
WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER-Alexan-der Woollcott - Viking ($3). A 1,056-page prose anthology designed for hostesses whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...
...LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN-Robert Burnett-Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing...
THEATRE-W. Somerset Maugham- Doubleday, Doran...
When Somerset Maugham wrote his first novels in the late 1890s they were regarded as daringly modern. These books would seem primly old-fashioned now. Still up-to-date, still a jump ahead of his popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like...