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...good birthday present," said his longtime secretary-companion, Alan Searle. But it was hardly that. After a 21-month fight to disinherit his daughter, Lady John Hope, in favor of Searle, W. Somerset Maugham admitted that "all differences have been settled." They seem to have been settled in her favor. In addition to $280,000 cash for some already-sold paintings, the agreement grants her royalties from some Maugham books as well as majority interest in his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera. Estimated value of the package: $1,400,000. Deaf, partially blinded by cataracts, and plagued...
...Somerset Maugham has repeatedly-and plausibly-denied that he was attempting a portrait of their marriage in Cakes and Ale. Maugham's warmhearted Rosie bears no resemblance to Emma, and her aging novelist-husband only sketchily resembles Hardy...
...behind. Then he was whooping and laughing and fast-stepping, next trotting, and finally he broke into a full gallop across the field with the whole camp of 600 streaming along in joyful pursuit. Mused one observer: "A regular Pied Piper." · · · For a year now, Somerset Maugham, 89, growing ever more crotchety with age, has been trying to disavow Lady John Hope, 47, the daughter with whom he has been feuding, and to disinherit her in favor of his longtime secretary-companion Alan Searle. Last week a Paris court, operating under both British and French law,* declared...
...Near Dublin, the cast, crew, director, scenarists, and flacks connected with filming Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage have been behaving as if they were making another version of the offscreen Cleopatra. Soon after shooting began a couple of months ago, Roderick Mann of London's Sunday Express arrived for an exclusive interview with Kim Novak-and that's what he got. He stopped taking notes and started holding hands with her at the races. "This is a very personal thing between Roddy and me," Kim tells Roddy's competitors. Meanwhile. Director Henry Hathaway...
...passed his 89th birthday at his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera, Author Somerset Maugham demonstrated the art of growing old realistically. "I am a very old party who has arrived at an age which is no longer amusing," he gruffed. "On this birthday I really have no wishes to make...