Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In London in 1907, at the age of 33, William Somerset Maugham became a success. Four of his plays were produced, and three of them ran for a year. He has remained successful ever since. "In my twenties," he says, "the critics said I was brutal, in my thirties they...
"There is not much to choose between men," Maugham says. "They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness." Doubting that he is any better or worse than others, he explains his own career in terms of his temperament. His parents died...
The Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New...
Amazing in a city whose annual rain fall is 15.2 in., a steady, soaking rain fell in Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills...
Having directed comedy teams like Mary Boland & Charles Ruggles and the Marx Brothers, last year in Topper Director McLeod tried his hand at making a comedienne out of Glamor Girl Constance Bennett, who came to him with a reputation for temperament. Said Director McLeod: ''We've got...