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...fortunately O'Neill was in the bathtub when the angel of light came around looking for a playwright to write "The Sacred Flame," so the modest angel alighted gracefully on the somewhat rounded shoulders of Somerset Maugham, and whispered in his ample ear her idea for a great tragedy...
Saint Wench (by John Colton; Helen Menken, producer). Playwright John Colton is the man who wrote The Shanghai Gesture, co-dramatized a William Somerset Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
...cycle which terminated with her playing murderesses in Somerset Maugham's The Letter and in Dishonored Lady, began with Michael Aden's Green Hat. Only those who saw and relished the play in 1925 are now capable, upon reflection, of appraising its utter trashiness. The celebrated headpiece which Actress Cornell affected in this play, "pour le sport and bravely worn," was duplicated and widely bought throughout the country for $22.50. It was in "Cornell green." Author Arlen made $200,000 in royalties from the play...
...Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS-Rudyard Kipling -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy -Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff & Hall-Little, Brown ($2.50). THE NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1919 - John Dos Passos - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). OBSCURE DESTINIES-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century...
...MAUGHAM (W. Somerset) First Person Singular. Mint...