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...been two outstanding bestsellers in my 25 years slum bookselling. They are [Rider Haggard's] King Solomon's Mines and [Marie Corelli's] The Sorrows of Satan . . . The bestselling poetry is still Browning and [Rupert] Brooke . . . My worst sellers are cookery books. My bestselling author is Maugham. My worst seller is Kipling...
Reluctant Lions. Today, Cockney Bookman Fred Bason is a minor British institution. He addresses Rotary luncheons, mimes on BBC television and exchanges bibliophiliac chatter with his pal, "Willy" (Somerset) Maugham. Nonetheless, at 42, Fred still lives in shimmy Walworth, and though he also owns a bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look...
Trio. Somerset Maugham escorts three more of his short stories to the screen; with Jean Simmons, James Hayter, Nigel Patrick (TIME...
From the British Isles come Seven Days to Noon at the 52nd Street-Lexington Avenue Trans-Lux and Somerset Maugham's Trio at the Sutton (57th and Third. The Red Shoes is still around; it plays at the Victoria through Christmas day. Perhaps the best of this group is Night Train, now ten years old, a superb thriller involving Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, the Gestapo, a cable car, and as many furtive aples as Carol Reed could round up. It is scheduled to close tomorrow at the Beverly (50th and Third...
Trio. Somerset Maugham escorts three more of his short stories to the screen; with Jean Simmons, James Hayter, Nigel Patrick (TIME...