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...Actress Billie Burke at a masquerade party with Somerset Maugham. Ziegfeld was dressed as a tramp. He rushed home, changed to full dress, sprayed himself with perfume. Actress Burke liked the perfume. He courted her quietly, with Grant's Tomb their usual rendezvous. On the day that Lefty Louis, one of the murderers of Herman Rosenthal, was executed, alert newsmen discovered that Showman Ziegfeld had married Actress Burke in Hoboken. They shared the front page with Lefty Louis...
...LONDON OMNIBUS?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1,400 pages of novels, stories, essays, plays, poems by A. P. Herbert (The Water Gypsies), Somerset Maugham (Rain), Virginia Woolf (Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown). Noel Coward (Private Lives), Aldous Huxley (The Cicadas & Other Poems}. 13 other famed Londoners, reprinted from original plates, August choice of the Literary Guild...
Playwright of The Breadwinner is William Somerset Maugham (Rain, The Letter, The Circle). Unlike the best of his works, this comedy is simply a bag of parlor tricks performed by dialog...
Leverson Hurle (Somerset Maugham), struggling but coming writer, had cast off his faithful mistress Lizzie with hardly a qualm, and when he got a job as secretary to rich, eccentric Mr. Stoddard, filled in his spare time by seducing his employer's wife. When the affair was discovered, Hurle was considerably annoyed, but finally married Mrs. Stoddard because she had money and position, both of which he badly needed. Then he climbed to fame. Every year brought him bigger royalties, more acquaintances, fewer friends. "He used people without any sort of scruple: accepted their hospitality and kindness...
...real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though I were sitting on a volcano...