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...Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors-including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett-published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention...
...Circle wears well because it offers no dated problem in morals, but a permanent reflection on human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham...
Last of Mrs. Cheyney, varnished English comedies in straight descent from Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero wherein persons of title misbehaved in epigrams...
Since Aeschylus the Theatre's incipient collapse has been frequently forecast and occasionally, as in England from Sheridan to Pinero, the Theatre has been prostrate for long periods. While realistic observers at the Astor did not consider the U. S. Theatre's case hopeless, nevertheless the fact that as many as 1,000 people, most of whose livelihoods stem from the stage, should formally assemble to consider its condition, indicated a state of affairs grave indeed...
Twenty-five years ago, the Manhattan drama season always seemed to open on Labor Day, with the late John Drew descending a grand staircase of the Empire Theatre in something by Arthur Wing Pinero. No such impressive starting gun has ever inspired the art world, but for the past two years a modest parallel has existed in the annual shows of Government-inspired art held in Manhattan early in September. At these exhibitions taxpayers are given some idea of what unemployed artists and others on WPA rolls are producing for their money...