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...sparing their feelings. It is right to be considerate, but horribly wrong to show it." Despite his coach, Golding Bright got "no forrader" (in his own words) on his would-be profession, and after a decade drifted into play-agenting for Shaw and other literary lights, e.g., Barrie, Maugham. Shaw's later letters to him are scrappy business notes mildly intriguing as a penny-pinching portrait of Shaw guarding his royalties as if he were a branch Bank of England. Golding Bright died in 1941, after some years of renown as a silver-haired dandy who showed...
Your cover shows that Harriman bears a striking resemblance to W. Somerset Maugham...
...Poker Game to John OHara's Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed...
Died. Syrie Maugham, 76, former wife (1915-27) of Author Somerset Maugham, mother of his only daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Lord John Hope; of a heart attack; in London...
...lilt gets a lift from the story, a merry little jape that was cribbed from a 1940 movie, a comedy called Too Many Husbands, which in turn was borrowed from a comedy by Somerset Maugham, who had lifted the theme from a gloomy narrative poem by Tennyson, who had got the idea from a sculptor friend who heard the tale told in Suffolk...