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Word: somerset (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already famous when he sat down, more than twelve years ago, to his work of translation-famous as a preacher, as a scholar, as a writer of detective novels and as a wit, but chiefly famous as a man. In the years before 1914, when the first plays of Somerset Maugham were delighting London with their brilliance, Knox already had a reputation for his wit and his satires against watery faith and confused thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Jane (adapted by S. N. Behrman from a Somerset Maugham short story) is urbane but upsy-downsy drawing-room comedy. Its three acts of intended laughter rather suggest three sets of tennis, with Jane narrowly losing the match, 6-2, 1-6, 4-6. Jane (Edna Best) is a rich, frumpish, middle-aged Liverpool widow, hard of head and blunt of speech. In a jolly first act she descends on her London relatives to announce that she is marrying a penniless architect half her age. There is consternation, opposition, and the sense of a cheerful future for the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Landscape Painter Graham Sutherland: a study of walnut-faced Publisher Lord Beaverbrook in a grimly pleasant mood. The Beaver agreed to sit for the portrait, a 72nd birthday present from his staff last year, after he saw and admired Sutherland's first attempt at portraiture: a haggard, cynical Somerset Maugham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries & Disclosures | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Constant Wife (by Somerset Maugham) still seems very pleasant after 25 years. It gets by no means the right production; it is certainly not topnotch Maugham. But it starts, weaknesses and all, beyond the point where most popular comedy leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play In Manhattan, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Somerset Maugham Theater (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Eddie Albert in Smith Serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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