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...were half the world away in Denmark. Since 1903 many a critic has climbed over the fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks as he gave it himself, but few champions have been found for Gauguin's behavior as a man. Author Somerset Maugham's fictional version of Gauguin's life (The Moon and Sixpence) is still the popular...
Last week Gauguin's youngest son Pola gave a more authoritative and respectable version of his lone-wolf father's career. His narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin...
Contrary to the Maugham legend...
...Welsh ironworker, Emlyn Williams, 30, retains a trace of Welsh accent. He spoke no English until he was 8 or 9, went to Oxford at 17 on a scholarship, saw a Somerset Maugham play which dissipated his notions of becoming a schoolteacher. Emlyn Williams has written five successful plays. He has grey-streaked hair, likes unpressed clothes, long, cold drinks and convivial company, haunts courtrooms, reads accounts of murder trials voraciously, claims that the character of Dan in Night Must Fall (first of his plays produced in the U. S.) is a psychological synthesis of five notorious British malefactors...
Secret Agent (Gaumont-British) introduces to U. S. cinema audiences a hero who should please them highly: Operative Ashenden of the British Intelligence Service, whose activities have been recorded so successfully in fiction by Author Somerset Maugham. Herein Ashenden (John Gielgud) is seen at the start of his career, stationed in Switzerland, where Author Maugham himself functioned as a Wartime spy. Detailed, with the assistance of a gruesome character known as the "Hairless Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican...