Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the British Empire fights for its life, its little private dramas-often almost as stylized as British tweeds-continue. One recurrent pattern, frequently put on paper by Somerset Maugham, is that of the Britons in India or the Far East whose ultra-British correctness is suddenly upset by tropic passion. Last week in East Africa a typical Maughamesque story appeared to be coming to feverish life...
...radio audiences, which necessitates writing her script in triple-size type. A great one for entertaining, she lives in an 18-room Beverly Hills mansion, which she has furnished ornately with French and English antiques. Among recent drop-ins have been the socially hard-to-get Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham. Describing the occasion, Fanny remarked, "Like jerks, we played parlor games." Most unusual of her guests is one Roger Davis, who dropped in on her in 1916, has been around ever since. She dotes on her two children (by Nicky Arnstein), is rated a good painter by the Chouinard...
Phillips Brooks House will benefit by about $200 from the first Boston Cotillion, hold last Monday evening at the Hotel Somerset, it was announced last night. At present it is not known for exactly what purpose this fund will be allocated...
Elected by the votes of Harvard undergraduates, Susan Simonds became the Queen of the first Boston Cotillion last night at the dance held for the benefit of the Phillips Brooks House at the Hotel Somerset...
...first cotillion is scheduled to be held from 10 until 3 o'clock on Monday, February 3 in the Louis XIV Ballroom of the Hotel Somerset. Providing music for the ball will be Vaughn Monroe and his nationally known orchestra and Harry Marshard, who will care for the Viennese Waltzing...