Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shanghai Gesture. John Colton, one of the able creatures who created Rain out of W. Somerset Maugham's story, has written another spectacular play of foreign parts and strange people. It has a high flavor of sex and a flame of melodrama. China is the general setting, and a Chinese disorderly house the specific. The central character is the vicious old procuress, capably played by Florence Reed. It seems that the English had insulted her at some early point in her existence. Wherefore she got an English child into her house. Pretty soon the English parents arrive. This combination...
Infatuation. Titles are running badly this week. This is what they called Somerset Maugham's Caesar's Wife. It tells of an English minister to Egypt whose pretty wife fell in love with a pretty undersecretary. Corinne Griffith and Percy Marmont make it good enough...
...time is near at hand when they may institute a paging system. Then we may expect to hear in the halls of Westmorley, Claverly, and Randolph and in the lounges of clubs, pages shouting as they make the rounds. "Two sober young gentlemen for a dinner at the Somerset." "Four assorted blonds and brunettes for a coming out party at the Copley." And in the Freshman Halls. "Fourteen well-recommended boys. The Brattles to uplift the boys, the boys to educate our daughters...
...enormously amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier reels...
...Taunton, Somerset, England, Jack Hobbs, "Babe Ruth of cricket," sped between wickets. When he had finished running he had completed his 126th century, thus equalling the record set up many years ago by the famed and bearded cricketer, Dr. W. G. Grace...