Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreigner to the metropolis and its denizens would be glad to see, to hear about her family & friends. Her recent success in The Vagabond King, as Huguette, caused several interesting facts about her home life to be publicly known. She is a player of chess; her favorite novel is Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; she is beautiful but apparently intelligent. Jane Carroll had, whether by inspiration or divine intervention, a severe toothache when reporters called last week. Said she: "I always wanted to sing serious roles, and I cannot tell you how happy...
...busy Beaver Man, himself, coming to them over the radio. It was not that he said very much?just a few well-chosen words spoken in Washington in connection with a national oratorical contest for school children which was won by one James R. Moore, 17, of Somerset...
...BETTERS-Somerset Maugham's shining sarcasm brilliantly reflected by Ina Claire and Constance Collier (TIME, March...
...revival of Somerset Maugham's biting comedy about Americans who acquire titles on the other side. Anything by Somerset Maugham is usually worth seeing, and this has Ina Claire to boot. It is placed this far down the list because, although a clever play, the essence of it is no longer as timely as when first produced...
...Betters was written twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...