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...Merrie England. Although Lucky Jim took the Somerset Maugham Award, the grand "Old Party" of British letters loosed a choleric blast at the "whitecollar proletariat." Said old (83) Somerset Maugham: "They do not go to the university to acquire culture, but to get a job, and when they have got one. scamp it ... Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are scum...
...member of Delta, and the Hastly Pudding-Institute of 1770. His clubs included the Somerset, Tavern, Harvard Club of Boston, Wednesday and Thursday Evening Clubs of Boston. He was a Pilgrim-Tercentenary member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society...
Producer-Director Wyler had good reason to draw a comparison. Rummaging through his musty attic of past hits (Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday), he came across Somerset Maugham's durable old (1927) melodrama, The Letter, and last week dusted it off for the 21-inch screen. It was Wyler's first stab at TV, and the result was a slick, highly polished teledrama about a bored wife who riddles her lover with bullets and gets away with...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's The Letter, with Siobhan McKenna, John Mills. Directed by William Wyler...
...Bolger and Elaine Stritch will star in 16 one-hour live shows called Washington Square, alternating with the Chevy Show's Dinah Shore and Bob Hope. Nanette Fabray, who left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo...