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YOUR CINEMA EDITOR, IN THE AUG. 31 ISSUE, ANNOUNCED THAT RITA HAYWORTH HAS JUST COMPLETED "THE STORY OF MARY MAGDALENE." HE IS SEVERAL MONTHS AHEAD OF OUR SCHEDULE. SHE IS NOW COMPLETING TITLE ROLE IN "MISS SADIE THOMPSON," SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S CLASSIC . . . "MARY MAGDALENE" AND "THE KING'S MISTRESS," THE STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ, ARE BOTH ON HER FUTURE SLATE...
...Potts Goes to Moscow (Associated British Pathe; Stratford) gets hold of a genuinely comic idea but never quite brings it off. Potts (played by British Actor George Cole, who starred as the kiteflying husband in Somerset Maugham's Quartet) is a sanitation engineer who has been designing the men's rooms at a British atomic-research center. Bound for a French vacation, he innocently walks off with the wrong briefcase, containing top-secret plans of a new Abomb. With England in an uproar and security officers searching everywhere for him, Potts is waylaid by Russian agents, plied with...
...Kipling's "color" and energies enough to make him "our greatest [short] story writer"? Maugham admits that "the short story is not a form of fiction in which the English have on the whole excelled"-which is a way of saying that Kipling has not had much competition. But Maugham adds loyally, "I can't believe he will ever be equalled. I am sure he can never be excelled...
...several agents. Walsingham employed a number of minor poets, and perhaps Playwright Christopher Marlowe as well, started English intelligence off on a high literary note that it has never entirely lost. Britain's literarily gifted secret agents have included Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, and Novelist Somerset Maugham...
...week Elizabeth Parsons, an attractive, auburn-haired woman of 28, sat in the assize court of Penang, on trial for the murder of her children. She was the first white, woman to go on trial for her life in Malaya since the famous case 30 years ago which Somerset Maugham dramatized in The Letter. To a jury of three Britons, three Chinese and a Sikh, the crown prosecutor outlined his case. "This is not common murder." said he, "but a most exceptional case. There is no motive here. It is a tragedy, and your reaction must be one of pity...