OUR BETTERS Set to Open Shaw's 2013 Season

Most of the knowledgeable young people reading this column would have read or even heard his name as a writer who wrote well both as a creative writer and an appreciator of good writing in English. Can you guess who he was among the great writers? ...

W. Somerset Maugham: "We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." Credits: @CM_SetReport TV newsletter E-mail * do not change Contact Email Contact ...

Some of the greatest writers of the past century have gushed about the Gritti Palace Hotel in Venice . Somerset Maugham was so enamoured that he said, there are few things in life more pleasant than to sit on the terrace of the Gritti when the sun ...

The Pacific is inconstant and uncertain like the soul of man. -- The Trembling of a Leaf, W. Somerset Maugham Of course W. Somerset Maugham could have had no idea just how appropriate his words would be more than a century later as the U.S.

Now, however, what she calls this Somerset-Maugham-meets-The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel scenario doesn't look quite so attractive. The derailing of the southern economies has cheated tens of thousands of Britons of their investments, and millions of ...

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day, W. Somerset Maugham once said. Even though the toast comes on a separate plate, you still have ample room on your main plate to re-home your toast and join it in matrimony with the ...

Somerset Maugham was the most popular playwright in England in the first three decades of the 20th century and in the high comedy stakes he bridged the gap between Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward. He has long been out of fashion but his best comedies of ...

Originally printed 3/28/2013 (Issue 2113 - Between The Lines News) William Somerset Maugham was no George Bernard Shaw, and "The Constant Wife" is no "Major Barbara." But both playwrights employed sparkling wit and compelling characters to deliver ...

Hello to all fine upstanding citizens of greater Hooterville! How are we as Homo-sapiens doing on this, another glorious Saturday Morning in Wonderland? Hawkeye & Sweet Leanor are just fine, and hope all of you can say the same and keep a straight ...