Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like those writers, Frank was no experimentalist. He was simply, says Somerset Maugham-who rides his favorite hobbyhorse in an introduction to this volume -an "honest"' storyteller: one who knows how to "devise a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end which satisfies his creative faculty. ... He had a tender and compassionate heart ... a healthy sensuality, and liked women to be young, pretty and buxom...
Another interesting item came later in the evening from the Somerset Hotel, where the band leader, announcing that he was about to read football scores and play college tunes, was greeted by a chorus of groans and "no's" from the cash customers. "That's all right," said the maestro. "I'm not going to talk about Harvard...
Today these rights are in a hopelessly mangled condition, so far as the writer is concerned. Somerset Maugham created a piece of property when he wrote "Of Human Bondage," but when he sold the movie rights he also sold the rights for any remake of his story and for any use of it by "heretofore undiscovered processes." Maugham gets nothing from the current version of "Of Human Bondage," but Warner Brothers adds another small fortune to its collection. In the case of a one-shot writer such as Margaret Mitchell, the peculiarities of the system become more flagrant. Magazine writers...
...wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work is possible. . . . Yorkshire: East Riding farmers have worked after sunshine and a drying wind, but general situation is still serious. Oxfordshire: . . . Unless weather improves, not much more than half crops will...
Theater of Romance (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Somerset Maugham's The Letter, starring stage and screen star Miriam Hopkins...