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...Show magazine, seamed old Story teller W. Somerset Maugham, 88, broke a long silence on his only marriage - an eleven-year affair with Interior Decorator Syrie Wellcome. As Maugham tells it in Looking Back, it was a painful episode. Married in New Jersey in 1916 after a two-year love affair - and a year after Syrie bore him a girl, their only child -they hit it off miserably. He found marriage a kind of human bondage, soon was demanding the right "to go and come when I liked." She took two lovers- "I knew them both and had a very...
...curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go-Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel...
...morality of the biographical novel as practiced by Somerset Maugham (Gauguin is called Strickland) and Irving Stone (Van Gogh is called Van Gogh) is shaky but probably defensible; the gross offense of distorting a man's life can be justified to some extent if it helps the novelist to capture the quality of the man's spirit. But there is no literary or historical justification for the cynical trespass Herman Wouk has committed in Youngblood Hawke. It is not merely a distortion; it is an act of violence...
...name of Novelist Somerset Maugham, whose collection of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings was on the block at the great London auction house of Sotheby's, undoubtedly accounted for the record turnout of 2,500. But in a larger sense, the star of the evening was, as always, Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer, Peter Cecil Wilson, 49. Wilson has sold 28,000 paintings in his career, and last week he went about his work with the same persuasive urbanity that has made Sotheby's the biggest art auction house in the world. Wilson does not joke...
...recovery also confirmed the motive for the recent rash of French art thefts, which was the major reason Riviera Resident Somerset Maugham sold his collection (see col. 1). In the Colombe d'Or case, Francis Roux had privately paid out a reported $20,000 to get his paintings back. In the Cézanne affair, insurance companies paid out a reported...