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Maugham [mɔ:m]

毛姆(姓氏)

maugham

[ noun ]
English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965)
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During the first world war Somerset Maugham, based in Switzerland, was turning out brittle marital comedies for the London stage with one hand while sending back to Whitehall secret reports on the activities of German agents in Lausanne with the other.
Louis Turenne, who had been playing the butler in W. Somerset Maugham's "The Circle," changed roles without changing costumes to sub for Harrison, 81, in the play's third act.
Sir Rex, 81, made it through two acts of W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 play "The Circle" at the Morris Mechanic Theatre before the curtain came down and the audience was told he was unable to continue.
Harrison debuted on Broadway in 1936 and last performed there May 11 as Lord Porteous in the revival of "The Circle," W. Somerset Maugham's 1920s comedy.
For the first production in their new house, producer Kit Goldman and director Will Simpson have chosen Somerset Maugham's 1921 drawing-room comedy, "The Circle."
Somerset Maugham is supposed to have insisted that a story should always have a beginning, a middle and an end.
The lectures were a flop. Maugham, who heard them, commented on his old friend: 'he has always been too busy to be much of a philosopher'.
The demonstration of financial independence and the fact that a woman can behave just like a man stuns her husband. Some writers about Maugham say that this was very radical at the time and too much for an English audience to accept.

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