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Though his longtime friend and Man Friday Allan Searle reported him "not at all well," Somerset Maugham, 87, was, when up to it, honing the razor's edge of his autobiography. Maugham, who has written more "absolutely last" works than many another author has produced in a lifetime, had originally earmarked the autobiography for posthumous publication, but found himself bloodying so many colleagues that he has gamely decided to hustle it out as soon as possible. "If the autobiography is published after his death," explained Searle, "they might well pull him out of his grave...
Died. Pola Gauguin, 77, last survivor of the impassioned postimpressionist's five legitimate children (at least one illegitimate child still lives in Tahiti), better known for a Maugham-correcting biography of his defecting pere (My Father, Paul Gauguin) than for his Scandinavian art criticism, architecture and painting; of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...
Story of Love (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Jane Fonda in Somerset Maugham's A String of Beads. Color...
After long basking on the French Riviera, Somerset Maugham returned to London for a ten-week chill in Britain's foggy-foggy autumnal dews. At 86, Author Maugham is possibly as acidly opinionated as ever in his life. He himself never published anything that was censorably naughty, and he apparently has no patience with those who do, or did. Said he of Lady Chatterley's Lover: "Rather boring. As for the scatological parts, they didn't tell me anything I didn't know before." Of Lolita: "I read the first 74 pages. Then...
...does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party's dinner-jacketed one-upmanship likely to delude the young. The wonder is, Twentieth Century Parody suggests, that there has been so much style in the last 60 years to be worth parodying...