Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coffee beans and rhumba orchestras, Spanish names and South American songstresses form the of the Pan-American Ball, to be held this Friday evening at the Hotel Somerset...
Theatre (adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by Guy Bolton & Mr. Maugham; produced by John Golden) is a half-brittle, half-gooey tale of a glittering English stage couple who seem to the public like Darby & Joan, behave in private more like Don Juan and Jezebel. The first half-in Maugham's typical drawing-room style-is a faintly nasty account of their infidelities, so carefully underlined that for a while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets...
...Somerset Maugham...
...bands and a bevy of senoritas will enliven a ball scheduled for November 28 in the Hotel Somerset and sponsored by the Pan American Society of Massachusetts and Phillips Brooks House...
...Ottawa. The U.S. Army Air Corps had turned him down as a husband and father. ∙∙ Gertrude Lawrence turned down a medal the Finnish Government offered her for Finnish Relief Fund work, because Finland "is now the vassal of Nazi Germany." ∙∙Of wartime writing, Writer Somerset Maugham, 67, said: "I've reached the conviction that an author may do his country more good just by going on and writing as though there were no war." ∙∙Of writers and Army life, Writer John Roberts Tunis, World War I veteran, declared: "There is nothing better...