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...Maugham produced nine works of fiction and nonfiction, all the while wanting to really make it as a dramatist. He hit pay dirt with his play Lady Frederick in 1907. But by the time of his last play, Sheppey, in 1933, he had come full circle; he was done with the world of the theater, which he found almost hateful, and only wanted to concentrate on his fiction, considering that, at last, to be his real writing. He was an acknowledged master of the short story and a great deal of his fiction was based on material provided...
...British, who love nothing better than a good crime story, responded enthusiastically. Harry was spotted almost simultaneously in Cornwall, Glamorgan, Cumberland, Great Yarmouth and Leicester, then on the Isles of Sheppey and Wight. He was reported hiding out at Tilbury Fort, at a girls' school in Essex, and with a terrorist Republican band in Ireland...
...Sheppey (by W. Somerset Maugham; produced by Jacques Chambrun) reached Broadway eleven years after it appeared in London. The last play which Maugham wrote alone is not too shining a valedictory. The hand that wrote this good-by was a little tired, a little cold...
...Sheppey (well played by Edmund Gwenn) is a perky London barber who wins ?8,500 in a sweepstakes, decides to give his money to the poor, begins by bringing home a streetwalker and a thief. From there on the cynic and ironist in Maugham have a field day. Sheppey, his family feels sure, must be off his chump. The harlot and the thief, bored stiff by the good life, scamper back to the bad one. For a final joker, Maugham shows that the exemplary Sheppey really is sick: he has been having visions of a strange woman, who turns...
Imagining the world's reaction to a kind of modern-Jesus is, if an old idea, always a provocative one. Sheppey has cleverness and a certain intellectual bite. But Sheppey, the work of a man too frosty to be either greatly amused or indignant, never really foams into comedy or explodes into drama. And Sheppey, like most barbers, talks too much; indeed, everybody talks too much, but nobody too well...