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KIRKLAND HOUSE--Razor's Edge (from a Somerset Maugham story), Saturday and Sunday, February...
...most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession with the price and private parts of an incredible array of consorts. (As the saying went in London when the diaries were circulated, "Gomorrah, begorra!") Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, Verlaine, Gide and Proust are not judged today on the basis of their sexual proclivities; nor, argues Inglis, should Casement...
That autumn in Chicago, where she was performing in a play, he proposed to her. She turned him down. Years later, apparently, she told him that when she rejected him she had just learned she was pregnant by another man. "I often wonder," Maugham is reported to have told a friend, "what course my life would have taken had it not been for that... freakish circumstance...
Calder's Appendix B raises a different ghost, the one that gives life to another of Maugham's books that is still read, Ashenden, or: the British Agent...
During World War I Maugham was a secret agent. In 1917, it is generally known, he was sent to Russia to help the Kerensky government against the Bolsheviks. Years later, in his autobiography, Maugham asserted that if he had only arrived earlier, Kerensky's fall might have been prevented...