Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasing interest is being shown in various pre and post game social activities. Perhaps one of the most popular of the events to be held at this time will be the Crimson-Green Ball which is being given for the benefit of the Boston Dispensary at the Hotel Somerset on Friday night...
...advance sale of tickets indicates that the newly decorated Louis XIV room at the Somerset will be thronged by many Harvards and Dartmouths choosing this occasion to relax...
...Welsh ironworker, Emlyn Williams, 30, retains a trace of Welsh accent. He spoke no English until he was 8 or 9, went to Oxford at 17 on a scholarship, saw a Somerset Maugham play which dissipated his notions of becoming a schoolteacher. Emlyn Williams has written five successful plays. He has grey-streaked hair, likes unpressed clothes, long, cold drinks and convivial company, haunts courtrooms, reads accounts of murder trials voraciously, claims that the character of Dan in Night Must Fall (first of his plays produced in the U. S.) is a psychological synthesis of five notorious British malefactors...
...Thurs. and Fri.--Headquarters, Stoughton 16. Possible dinner at Hotel Somerset. Fri.--Headquarters, Stoughton...
Secret Agent (Gaumont-British) introduces to U. S. cinema audiences a hero who should please them highly: Operative Ashenden of the British Intelligence Service, whose activities have been recorded so successfully in fiction by Author Somerset Maugham. Herein Ashenden (John Gielgud) is seen at the start of his career, stationed in Switzerland, where Author Maugham himself functioned as a Wartime spy. Detailed, with the assistance of a gruesome character known as the "Hairless Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican...