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on life at 76

L W.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM,

in a talk with Joseph Garrity

Y rules for a huppy life are simple

-almost like a copy-book.

1. Keep sober;

2. Work hard;

3. Do not do anything too

long.

I have always been a wanderer and shall go on wandering until I am a fixture in a bath chair. A man who travels gains experience and becomes less insular.

ONE important change I have been women have pleased to see is that gained a freedom undreamed of at the be- ginning of the century.

In my youth a young girl of the pro- fessional classes, or upper classes as they are called, would never have been allowed out alone.

When they went to dances they had chaperons. If there had been any night clubs they would not have been allowed to go to them.

ed.

How things have chang

Jack from New York where his stories are the rage of Television la 76-year-old Movelist Somerset Maugham. He is in London to discuss a new film of his works. After 50 years of writing he has put away his pen because "I have nothing more to say,"

to say. Now

I morely century has produced is dabble in essays for my per-

sonal enjoyment. Women today are for Einstein.

My own dear friend H. more self-reliant. They un-

Even at my time of life had there are plenty of other dertake all sorts of jobs G. Wells undoubtedly

do. the things to

But when considered impossible in a great influence on their grandmothers' day.. generation that was begin- you are getting on for 80, ning to grow up at the be- as I am, you don't want to ginning of the century. He climb mountains or shoot made them think for them- down the Cresta Run. selves.

I have a great-nieco who, because her father was rich man, had never done a day's work in her life. She married a

poor man, and her life has changed pletely.

Before the war I used to visit old friends in Batteroca. They lived in Horriblè clunes, with bugs under the wallpaper which crawled everywhere. There were no bathrooms; the people were huddled up together in hopelessly overcrowded con- ditions.

After the war I went to see Iny friends again in a nice council flat with a bathroom, They had a gramophone, went to the pictures twice a week, and 1 expect they have television Dot now.

They. Inve

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much better

home, and they havo deserved

it. Gone is the fear of unem- ployment,

About ourselves

Mcharacter

ποι

viewo on the British

today may please everyone. I don't think the British are so honest as they used to be, nor nearly so civil or obliging.

That is undoubtedly due to the war, the hardships and all the strain to which they have I believe It is been exposed. only a temporary phase.

Another regrettable change I have noticed is that by force of circumstances British hospitality is not so warm. With prices so high men evidently cannot afford to share their cigarettes with friends as they once did. Entertaining at home, due to the expense and food rationing, bas practically died out. Then there is the servant problem.

Yet I find the British are more

not so hostile to strangers.

I read a great deal, go to He was a powerful nd- the theatre, listen to music, sociable than they were, and vocate for the freedom of and enjoy the company of a com- the sexes and, of course, he great number of friends.

was a Socialist.

Whenever I have

an op-

She does all the house- I was extremely attached portunity I play bridge. "I work, cooking, cleaning, and to my old friend Wells, and am deeply attached to my I is now looking after

two his death was a great loss garden and pay a lot of at- babies. She does it all on to me. her own, and she does it cheerfully.

His

tention to it.

influence, however, Poverty-and riches perished long before he Nowadays, when servants died. He was one of those are scarce and this situation is

Welfare state

AM all

for the Welfare

State. I do not believe that security necessarily robs a man of incentive.

I wrote because it was in my nature to write. If the rewards had been far smaller than they turned out to be I should still

expensive, people who lived a little too I AM very glad to be old have been a writer.

common- long for his fame.

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Falconer

I BELIEVE

television.

How do I account for this phenomenal success so late in life?

What he had to say said in the first 30 years.

Didn't want him

ever

because I know that we I think the Health Service is he had a better life before a grand scheme.

1914 than we have had since. When I look at my grandchildren I anxious ly wonder what sort of

of

Some people say the raising of the standard of living is the

high cost reason for the living. But no one in his senses would grouse about the working class enjoying their new luxuries.

watching other people. poor, but it did not really will be corrected as time goes

25,000,000 copies of my I HAVE stopped writing life lies before them, books have been published. at the proper time be- There is the constant Of course these things have! "Of Human Bondage," cause I did not want to fear of war that we have to be paid for. But, although I am no politician, I suspect... which I wrote 35 years ago, make a similar mistake. been living through in all

ignorantly or otherwise that still sells about 12,900

Friends have urged me these later years, and also the Welfare State could be run copies

and more a year. The total to continue writing, but

morc efficiently I the rising cost of living. sales of "The Razor's Edge" have made up my mind. I

economically than it is. are something like 2,500,000 learned

my lesson

Before 1914 you could be by

Maybe these initial mistakes copies.

You could get on on-by Take the case of Pinero. matter.

the Socialists or by Now they are bringing At the beginning of the with so little.

some other Government, out my stories in the pic- century he was quite the

During my first ten years takes. People who never make It is no shame to make mis- tures, on records, and in top dramatist, not only in

да a professional writer I mistakes never do anything of Britain but all over the world. Managers clamoured earned an average of £100 any great consequence,

I had to be very a year.

So many people who used to for his plays.

economical, but I managed. send their sons to public schools Then I remembered

One could not do that now. are now finding the expense too day when Pinero said:

great. So they are sending: My theory is that it

"They don't want me any Today we know that the their boys to secondary schools

where because I have lived on.

more." He kept on writing minimum a workman can

they get a very

good education and will mix with Men who liked my books plays, but managers would possibly live on is something all sorts and conditions of other

between £5 and £6 a week. when they were boys of an not even look at them. impressionable age are still I thought I reading them at 50. I kept would get out on writing, and they kept while the go. on reading. For 50 years ing was good. they have never been The writer allowed to forget my name. сал live too

But if I had died in the long. first world war, just after Shaw lived "Of Human Bondage," I too long for &la, "uld have been entirely his

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Great men

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fame. What he wrote since "Saint Joan" added nothing to his reputation THE period of my lifetime And what he has been rich in famous wrote in the figures, but I do not think last few years

out was any personality stands

just so clearly or has made such damaging, and a brilliant mark in history many people as Winston Churchill. He lost interest in has dominated the scene for him. the last 30 or 40 years.

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I don't want | " Psychology, Mна Ponny Isather Burino fuel cuts People use the term to write any vele-logs and robins at the "genius" loosely. In my more. I have bact Anne Hathaway's attor Jopinion the only genius this said all I want]

FERD'NAND

in front!

Jest a Waste of Time

people. Everything is It seems to me that this will to the 50 terribly ex- make a great difference

future of Britain. It will end pensive.

snobbishness.

One of the

pleasures I hoped hate boiled potatoes.

I hate snobbery as much as I

to enjoy on ar

riving in London

was

to

have

simme oysters. But

I am banged if

I

am going to W

After death

WHERE religion is concerned I don't

I am an agnostic. pay 21s. a dozen belleve in an after-life. I just

I have made

a fortune, but I was poor much too long to waste my money now,

in these grand cannot see any Hkelihood of it. London restau- I made up my mind about this rants,

50 years ago, and I have found no reason to change my views. The most exciting period of my life was in 1998 when, as o struggling author trying with difficulty to keep body and soul together, I suddenly found my- self with four plays running in One change I London at the same time.

to am pleased

Have I any regrets? Yes, I ECC is that the deeply regret that I was not working class is able to enjoy the pleasures of enjoying a high- my youth because I had to work er standard of so hard to earn a living. living conditions.

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