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...Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Aug. 1, 1915): ". . . One of those novels which deserve and should receive the attention of all those who care for what is worthwhile in contemporary fiction...
...they were personal friends. He knew each one's virtue, and lamented each one's fault; and if he happened to love a book (as he often did), he knew how to pass his affection on. Whoever sought his help-from Winston Churchill to Somerset Maugham to the little daughter of a member asking for a book on witches-was never disappointed. Mr. Cox would merely turn his head, fold his hands in front of him, and let the titles come rumbling out from under his white mustachios...
...Somerset Maugham Television Theater...
...giving an illustrated lecture on a theme that brought him fame both as a writer and an artist-the Domination of the American Male by the American Female. The fact that Thurber will talk throughout the entire first reel should leave him with a decided histrionic edge over Somerset Maugham, who merely introduced Quartet and Trio, the films made from his own stories...
...Really Art? Although Maugham may have made a dressier screen appearance than Thurber presumably will (on Thurber's gaunt frame his expensive clothes give an unfurled effect), several ardent Thurberites have already pointed out that Maugham cannot draw. But, as the question has often been phrased in his home town, Columbus, Ohio: "Can Thurber, either?" For some time now, a psychiatrist has been writing Thurber, offering to cure him of his drawing...