Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VAGRANT MOOD: SIX ESSAYS (250 pp.) - W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday...
...days as a professional writer are over," said Somerset Maugham in 1948. "I'm putting up the shutters, shutting up the shop. After all, I'm 75 next birthday . . . But if I think of an occasional little piece, I will write it." Since then, Somerset Maugham (now 79) has published his notebooks and thought of a few little pieces...
...Author Somerset Maugham, who once said that the public respects an old writer for his age and not necessarily for his work went to the Riviera villa of his friend the Aga Khan to celebrate his 79th birthday. For the occasion, he had a further observation: "The public gets used to a writer . . . Longevity also allows a writer, if he's old enough, to influence three generations of readers. But it isn't having written a lot that makes one respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's Jane, with Edna Best, Michael Redgrave...
...Lantrectable." Nash's lyrics are set to pleasant music, though none of the tunes is likely to stick with you as far as the subway station. One which might is Roll Along Sadie, a lively number which suggests that Anita Loss might have been kinder to Sadie Thompson than Somerset Maugham...