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.

Howard had earlier co-starred with Davis in the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's book Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) and later in the romantic comedy It's Love I'm After ( 1937 ) ( also co-starring Olivia de Havilland ).

" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.

Such was Maugham's lack of political experience that Chamberlain and he had never met before.

However by the time this occurred in early 1939, Chamberlain was sufficiently impressed with Maugham's work to offer to retain him, whilst allowing Inskip the opportunity to defer choosing between becoming Lord Chancellor and remaining in the House of Commons with the possibility of becoming Prime Minister ( a choice that Hailsham had always regretted ) and intended to make a change at the next general election, which was expected to take place that year.

" ( Copyright 1926 ), Maugham's character Gallagher, an Irishman who had lived in the Federated Malay States for 25 years, orders the drink.

She appeared in Maugham's The Letter in London and on tour in 1927 and 1928, in Excelsior ( adapted from " L ' Ecole des Cocottes " by H. M. Harwood ) in 1928, and in Maugham's The Sacred Flame in 1929, also in London and on tour.

The Yellow Book is also mentioned in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage:

Landor's " I Strove with None " is also quoted in Somerset Maugham's " The Razor's Edge.

That year she also appeared in Rain, a play adapted from Maugham's short story by the same name.

By the 1930s, though his public success remained considerable, critical opinion saw Walpole as outdated, and his reputation took a blow from a malicious caricature in Somerset Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale in which the character Alroy Kear, a superficial novelist of more ruthless ambition than literary talent, was widely taken to be based on Walpole.

She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's short story, Rain.

Her television acting in the late 1960s and early 1970s included The Door of Opportunity ( 1970 ) with Ian Ogilvy, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's story, followed by August Strindberg's The Stronger ( 1971 ) with Britt Ekland, and Terrible Jim Fitch ( 1971 ) by James Leo Herlihy, which once more paired Faithfull with Nicol Williamson.

In 1968 Lowe was invited by Laurence Olivier to act at the National Theatre at the Old Vic and appeared in Somerset Maugham's Home and Beauty in 1968 and later The Tempest in 1974 with John Gielgud.

Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( 1965 / 66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley ), W. Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick ( 1970 ), Relative Values ( Noël Coward revival, 1973 ), and the thrillers Spider's Web ( 1955, written for her by Agatha Christie ), Signpost to Murder ( 1962 ), and Double Edge ( 1975 ).

At Cambridge he appeared as Elizabeth in Somerset Maugham's The Circle in 1929 and his performance was praised by George Rylands.

In 1908 Somerset Maugham's Mrs. Dot provided her with arguably her finest role, followed by parts in All-of-a-Sudden Peggy and Penelope.

* Rain, a 1922 play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, adapted from Maugham's story

The screenplay for Maugham's Of Human Bondage was unacceptable because the prostitute, Mildred Rogers ( played by Davis ), whom the club-footed medical student, Philip Carey ( played by Howard ), falls in love with, comes down with syphilis.

This leads them to investigate and confront the cabal led by W. Somerset Maugham's Aleister Crowley analogue, Oliver Haddo.

* Bernard Kersal in Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, tour of Britain ( 2003 ).

* 1915 W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

Maugham's public view of his abilities remained modest.

Philip's clubfoot causes him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality.

Maugham's last major novel, The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, was a departure for him in many ways.

Maugham's restrained prose allows him to explore the tensions and passions without appearing melodramatic.

Some, however, dealt with professional spies as in Hitchcock's Secret Agent ( 1936 ), based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden stories.

* " The Letter ", a short story in W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree

After more than 20 film roles, the role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers in the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), a film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim.

Gauguin's life inspired W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence.

Liza of Lambeth ( 1897 ) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London.

For example, William Somerset Maugham's ( 1874 – 1966 ) novella Up at the Villa ( 1941 ) could very well be classified as crime fiction.

She played opposite Rex Harrison in his final acting role in a Broadway revival of W. Somerset Maugham's play The Circle in 1990.

The 1964 remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage was a failure, as was The Outrage ( 1964 ), director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, despite the presence of Paul Newman.

In 1933 he played the title role in W. Somerset Maugham's final play Sheppey at Wyndham's Theatre.

In W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, the author mentions Parnell and O ' Shea: " Passion is destructive.

American newspaper reviewers like to call his plays nihilistic.

She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

Nevertheless, like any other human being upon whom the spotlight of the world plays continually, Khrushchev, the anti-personality cultist, has become a comic actor, or thinks he has.

For a serious young man who plays golf with a serious intensity, Palmer has such an inherent sense of humor that it relieves the strain and keeps his nerves from jangling like banjo strings.

Avionics plays a heavy role in modernization initiatives like the Federal Aviation Administration's ( FAA ) Next Generation Air Transportation System project in the United States and the Single European Sky ATM Research ( SESAR ) initiative in Europe.

Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).

A group of instruments in which each member plays a unique part — rather than playing in unison with other like instruments — is referred to as a chamber ensemble.

A team playing with this style emphasizes doing little things ( including risky running plays like base-stealing ) to advance runners and score runs, often relying on pitching and defense to keep games close.

Another rule change banned " mass momentum " plays ( many of which, like the infamous " flying wedge ", were sometimes literally deadly ).

Dayton also plays host to significant research and development in fields like industrial, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering that have led to many technological innovations.

War of the Daleks, like the comic strips and audio plays, is of uncertain canonicity when it comes to the television series.

The plays of Euripides, like those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, were circulated in written form in the fifth century among literary members of the audience and performers at minor festivals, as aide-memoirs.

These plays often explored the altered states, like insanity, hypnosis, panic, under which uncontrolled horror could happen.

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The orchestra on the other hand is more repetitive and pulse like: the left hand continually plays the high A and it is not until the 5th measure where another note is added, but the A continues to be played throughout always on the off beat.

In addition to these clubs, there are numerous other activities which are pursued by the students of the university including sports like cricket, football, table tennis etc., street plays, theatrics and robotics.

It is now accepted that the right hemisphere plays an important role in the processing of suprasegmental acoustic features like prosody.

" For example, the play's Verona is situated on a tidal river and has a duke, and none of the characters have distinctly Italian names like in the later plays.

Also, by using his many Greek references and showing that his plays were originally Greek, “ It is possible that Plautus was in a way a teacher of Greek literature, myth, art and philosophy ; so too was he teaching something of the nature of Greek words to people, who, like himself, had recently come into closer contact with that foreign tongue and all its riches .”

Against the spirit of the Greek original, he engineers events at the end ... or alter the situation to fit his expectations .” Anderson ’ s vehement reaction to the co-opting of Greek plays by Plautus seems to suggest that they are in no way like their originals were.

For instance, the clever slave has important roles in both L ’ Avare and L ’ Etourdi, two plays by Molière, and in both drives the plot and creates the ruse just like Palaestrio in Miles Gloriosus.

Although this remained a common practice in the NFL through the 1970s, fewer QBs were doing it by the 1980s and even Hall-of-Famers like Joe Montana did not call their own plays.

While quarterbacks are mainly not a factor in terms of receiving forward passes, some trick plays, like the flea flicker, require quarterbacks to catch a lateral by a wide receiver or running back before delivering a forward pass.

Some Satanists believe in a god in the sense of a Prime Mover but, like Atheistic Satanists, do not worship it, due to the deist belief that a god plays no part in mortal lives.