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Maugham and Robin
*** Robin Maugham, English writer, the only son of the previous
* Maugham, Robin, 1977, Somerset and all the Maughams.
* Maugham, Robin, 1977, Search for Nirvana.
The Servant is Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation of a 1948 novelette by Robin Maugham.
Known as Robin Maugham.
One of Joyita's owners after the events of 1955, travel-writer Robin Maugham, spent many years investigating his vessel's past, and published his findings as The Joyita Mystery in 1962.
She was stripped of useful equipment and was practically a hulk when she was bought by Robin Maugham in the early 1960s.
* Robin Maugham ( 1962 ) The Joyita Mystery.
Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham ( 17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981 ), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer.
Robin Maugham was the son of Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, and Helen Romer.
* Robin Maugham British novelist, playwright and travel writer.

Maugham and 1970
Her last major success on the stage was at age 82, in 1970 – 71 in the role of Mrs. St. Maugham in Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden, a role she had created on Broadway and in the West End in 1955 – 56.
* 1970: Somerset Maugham Theatre ; The Door of Opportunity .... Anne Torel ( 1 episode, 1970 )
** 1970 — The Heiress ( BBC Play of the Month ); Double Bill ( The Wednesday Play ); The Letter ( W. Somerset Maugham )-Nominated
Krim was a respected essayist, and wrote a number of books including Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer ( 1961 ), Shake It For The World, Smartass ( 1970 ), The Beats ( 1960 ; editor ), Manhattan: Stories of a Great City ( 1954 ; editor ), Maugham the Artist, You and Me ( 1974 ), and a posthumous compilation entitled What's This Cat's Story?

Maugham and from
Influenced by the published journals of the French writer Jules Renard, which Maugham had often enjoyed for their conscientiousness, wisdom and wit, Maugham published selections from his own journals under the title A Writer's Notebook in 1949.
* The Letter ( play ), a 1927 drama by W. Somerset Maugham from his own short story of the same name
* The Letter ( 1929 film ), directed by Jean de Limur starring Jeanne Eagels, adapted from the Somerset Maugham play
** The Letter ( 1940 film ), directed by William Wyler starring Bette Davis, also adapted from the Somerset Maugham play
What he actually found in India and what he finally concluded are held back from the reader for a considerable time until, in a scene late in the book, Maugham discusses India and spirituality with Larry in a café long into the evening.
However, I should add that except for this conversation, I would perhaps not have thought it worthwhile to write this book …" Maugham then initiates the reader to ' Advaita philosophy ' and reveals how, through deep meditation, Larry goes on to realize God and thus become a saint — in the process gaining liberation from the cycle of human suffering, birth and death that the rest of the earthly mortals are subject to.
Maugham ’ s suggestion that he " invented nothing " was a source of annoyance for Christopher Isherwood, who helped him translate a verse 1. 3. 14 from the Katha Upanishads for the novel ’ s epigraph-उत ् त ि ष ् ठ ज ा ग ् रत प ् र ा प ् य वर ा न ् न ि ब ो धत | क ् ष ु रस ् य ध ा र ा न ि श ि त ा द ु रत ् यय ा द ु र ् ग ं पथस ् तत ् कवय ो वदन ् त ि || ( uttiShTha jAgrata prApya varAn_nibodhata | kShurasya dhArA nihitA duratyayA pathas_tat_-avayo vadanti || )-which means " Rise, awaken, seek the wise and realize.
" Evidently, her acting improved during this period, as Maugham praised her for " turning herself from an indifferent actress to an extremely competent one " through her common sense and industriousness.
The film was adapted by Monta Bell, Mort Blumenstock, Jean de Limur and Garrett Fort from the 1927 play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham.
* Many scenes from the film The Painted Veil, adapted from the 1925 W. Somerset Maugham novel The Painted Veil were filmed in Guilin and the surrounding area.
" According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, " If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon.
" Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from a section of Spinoza's Ethics.
The storied Long Bar, where the Singapore Sling cocktail drink was invented, and which was patronized over the decades by a host of literati, including Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham, was relocated from the lobby to a new adjoining shopping arcade.
It was adapted by Ingram from the novel The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham.
Frederic Herbert Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham PC, KC ( 20 October 1866 – 23 March 1958 ) was a British lawyer and judge who served as Lord Chancellor from 1938 until 1939 despite having virtually no political career at all.
Maugham agreed that events were started by the flooding from the broken cooling pipe and the failure of the pumps.
Maugham himself spent many years in the Malay archipelago and was most certainly acquainted with the drink from his travels.
In a career that lasted from 1922 until her death, Syrie Maugham became a legendary interior designer credited for designing the first all-white room.
Maugham was known to work from her bed in the morning, dictating to her secretary who worked from a desk in her bedroom, and gave orders to her shop manager on the way home at night.

Maugham and .
He is an admirer of the work of W. Somerset Maugham, especially the Ashenden stories.
* Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham
But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.
The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.
He often entertained literary figures like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous Huxley, Ferenc Molnár, and close friend Somerset Maugham, as well.
* 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer ( d. 1965 )
Maugham is a surname most commonly associated with the English literary family.
** W. Somerset Maugham, English writer, best known of the Maughams.
Herbert, Thomas Hood, Douglas William Jerrold ( 1841 – 1857 ), James Leavey, George du Maurier, George Melly, John McCrae, A. A. Milne, Anthony Powell, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Henry Lucy, John Hollingshead, Artemus Ward, Somerset Maugham, P. G.
Examples are Ashenden or: the British Agent ( 1928 ) by W. Somerset Maugham, about counter-revolutionary British espionage against Bolshevik Russia, and The Mystery of Tunnel 51 ( 1928 ) by Alexander Wilson whose novels conveyed an uncanny portrait of the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original ' C '.
W. Somerset Maugham, who wrote over a hundred short stories, was one of the most popular authors of his time.
The first prize was publication by Harper and Hughes garnered widespread critical acclaim with the book's release in September 1957, winning a Somerset Maugham Award.
Maugham had begun collecting theatrical paintings before the First World War and continued to the point where his collection was second only to that of the Garrick Club.
Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle.

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