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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...Quartet," an English expert like the author, dramatizes four of his neat but contrived short stories which enjoy this virtue of carrying the audience along at a satisfying pace. Of course the usual Maugham vices are sometimes present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Least successful of the "Quartet," "The Kite" indulges in some contrived symbolism to point up the struggle between a mother and wife for a young man's affections. The acting of the mother is exceptionally good but once again the author descends to the maudlin to close his story and good acting is not enough to redeem the plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...London theater last week a quartet of actors, togged out as Prime Minister Clement Attlee with his Ministers Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, sang a doleful parody of a tune from Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Gravel for the Wheels | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Quartet. Skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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