Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dauncey (Alice Terry) is elected as the source of supply for the experiment. While breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, under the hypnotic direction of the doctor, she meets sympathetic Dr. Burdon who understands how hard it is for a girl to do as she wishes under these conditions. Somerset Maugham conceived the tale. Rex Ingram directed the film, tried hard to make the gruesome fantasy appear real, succeeded partiallv...
Rain. After four years of Rain, Jeanne Eagels pours forth the dismal woes of Sadie Thompson in a last two-week stand at the Century Theatre. Somerset Maugham's story, made into one of the most successful plays in recent years, tells of a jaywalking girl from Honolulu and a fanatical, suppressed missionary who meet on a South Sea island. Miss Eagels, after some fourteen hundred performances has, to all intents and purposes, become Sadie Thompson. Actors, producers, public thundered her a tremendous ovation...
Miss Barrymore has been acting in the latest presentation of her favorite Barrie play since last June, and expects to continue in the role of Kate Symms for another six weeks. Thereafter she will take the leading part in Somerset Maugham's new play, "The Captive Husband...
...CASUARINA TREE-W. Somerset Maugham-Doran ($2). The title, of course, means nothing, although Author Maugham explains in a two-page preface that it might mean something. If one takes a piece of the Casuarina tree in a boat with him, contrary winds and storms will arise to jest with his life; but if one stands in its shadow by the light of the full moon, he will hear the secrets of the future. All of which ties a string around six short stories, wherein English folk drink gin pahits and have emotional disturbances in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula...
They will probably be shown through the various buildings in the Yard, and taken to points of historic note in the vicinity. The men will spend the night at the Hotel Somerset...