NO MORE MAUGHAM PLAYS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21118, 20 March 1934, Page 9

NO MORE MAUGHAM PLAYS

1 >vkiti-:i: s\ys fakkwku. to Tin-: SiAGi: i ! LONDON. March 1".. I Mr W. Somerset Maugham, the 'famous authoi and playwright, says i farewell to the sb.gi ill the follow iug words at the preface to the collected edition of ins plays, which is be in;.'; pubh-.iied 10-nioirow:■-. "1 am no jointer in touch v. ltd the i public Ib,; 1 iKitro,uses the theatre. 'l'his lisone:,:; m tin- end to most dramatists, and they are wee to aeeep! the warning. It is high titr.e th,e;i to retire, which I do with rebel. 1 d-. not ).' ow whether it is ! mere tedious to see a plav written | nor, in the manner of a gem rat,on I back, or whether it is more painful j to see one wr ttep by an elderly j man determined to be up to date." ISomer. et .Uaiisha.n wa • be; n in i ;.','•! a! I'. ■!' ■. wk.-re ! ■.: lather v a-: ii,e: e he wrote •-,, Veral phc \dt:,' ; l he eoiud h ' ;.i • due, .• i Thmeh ha l' ■,'■' Vh Vo'eli' tile 'le'' ', 1 Ye "hie to hie' chcum." comed',. hade' Frederick. ;;:..: nr. : cade his name and lor- !,:'.' 'eVa :Via ef pla. ,'Y: a similar type. Mam.ham set a new .standard tor die Fnshsh iv'iii'ilv of mania.!'s with 'file ('aria a!,.! Ibiso e d be;,lite. and th.e hit. r v.. Ih. C beta re and in America. Mamfiac" has been described a, the direcx successor to he hanua s j,..- ,'i.,':,ii, and'ip-e'earc pel hail, j,;s eh,, : ~;., !l -, 1 ,. 1i r -..c.-.,'. IPs i.eiier. Tiie Sacred I'hiir. " : ■,' p.-. , j V.'lllM'i. Hi d For SelA ices i.'elaiel : d a ' ran and p,,we till pa-uire oi the elbct ( f th.e v.'.a' en an belch f.uml y. ]