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Unformmatcly the transitions between the picture's different stories consist of fade outs where the curtain the film rather episodic. With the same characters throughout (it is not a collection of unrclated stories as was Maugham's Trio), there is some unity, but the ship alone holds the picture together as a sort of picaresque hero, and a ship lacks vital interest as a hero...
Miss Sadie Thompson (Columbia) is at least the third major screen version of the Somerset Maugham story about a missionary and a prostitute on a South Sea island. This one offers Rita Hayworth in the tart part made famous on the stage by Jeanne Eagels (Rain, 1922), and on the screen by Gloria Swanson (1928) and Joan Crawford (1932). Actress Hayworth adds no new luster to the old story...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's Cakes...
TIME'S Sept. 7 review of Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best leaves unclear the reason why the Indian member of a polo team visiting the officers of another regiment (in The Man Who Was) ". . . could not, of course, eat with the mess." This might lead some readers to infer that it was because of British insularity or snobbishness. The reason was that the Indian officer's caste might be broken if he ate with nonbelievers in his religion...
...Kipling also believed that there was ambiguity in the phrase "he could not ... eat with the mess"; he therefore altered "mess" to "alien" in later editions. Editor Maugham's version was set from early editions...