Mary Elizabeth (née Maugham, later Paravicini) Hope, Baroness Glendevon (1915–1998) was the only child of English playwright, novelist, and short story writer W. Somerset Maugham and his then mistress, Syrie Wellcome.
William Somerset Maugham CH ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.
 He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
Rain, originally entitled Sadie Thompson (1997), is an American opera by Richard Owen, based on the 1921 short story "Rain" by Somerset Maugham.
 The first version, named not after the story title, but like the 1928 Gloria Swanson film named after the female leading character, Sadie Thompson, was premiered 20 November 1997.
 The revised version of the opera, "Rain", was premiered by Camerata New York at Alice Tully Hall 20 February, 2003.
 A recording of the 2003 performances was issued on Albany Records.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.
 Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten.
 He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel, "Liza of Lambeth", was published the same year he qualified.
The Sadie Thompson Inn is a historic building in Malaloa, one of the constituent villages of Pago Pago in American Samoa.
 The building is noted as the guest house where author W. Somerset Maugham resided for six weeks in 1916–17 during an extended trip through the South Sea Islands.
 He described it as a "dilapidated lodging house with a corrugated tin roof" and complained that he contracted "a stubborn rash, no doubt fungus" while at the hotel, and of the "weeks" it took to cure it.
Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer.
 She was born in 1957 in Bristol, in the West of England, and grew up first in Wealdstone then in a suburb of Croydon where she went to a girls' school.
 Her mother was a primary-school teacher and her father was a naval architect who later taught.
 The first from her family to go to university, she read English at Oxford where she wrote a thesis on Restoration farce.
 She worked at "Vogue" for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing.
 Her first collection, "Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories", 1990, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was followed by a second collection, "Dear George", in 1995.
 "Hey Yeah Right Get A Life", 2000, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize, and was renamed "Getting a Life" for its US publication.
 She was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 2002 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
 Her most recent story collections are: "Constitutional" (2005), renamed "In the Driver's Seat" for its US publication; "In-Flight Entertainment" (2010); and "Cockfosters" (2015).
 "A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories" was published in 2012.
Olga Lindo (13 July 1899 – 7 May 1968) was an English actress.
 She was the daughter of Frank Lindo, a well-known actor, manager and author.
 She made her stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 26 December 1913.
 She later joined her father's touring company in a range of roles.
 For Basil Dean she appeared in "R.U.R" in 1923, and in 1925 she gave what "The Times" described as a formidable performance as Sadie Thompson in Maugham's "Rain" at the Garrick Theatre.
 She toured in South Africa in 1930 and 1934 in a variety of parts.
 Her repertoire ranged from the classics to farce.
 She also acted in films.
Robert Lorin Calder, a Canadian writer and professor, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1989 for his "Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham", a biography based on extensive archival work and interviews with surviving associates of Maugham, in particular Alan Searle.
 Unlike Ted Morgan, who had obtained permission from Maugham's executors to publish from Maugham's letters in his biography (1980), Calder was refused permission to do so by the Royal Literary Fund and had to rely on paraphrase in referencing Maugham's unpublished correspondence.
Miss Sadie Thompson is a 1953 American musical 3D film starring Rita Hayworth, Aldo Ray and José Ferrer, and was released by Columbia Pictures.
 The film is based on the W. Somerset Maugham short story "Miss Thompson" (later retitled "Rain").
 Other film versions include "Sadie Thompson" (1928) starring Gloria Swanson, "Rain" (1932) starring Joan Crawford, and "Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.," a 1946 race film.
Trio (also known as W. Somerset Maugham's Trio) is a 1950 British anthology film based on three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All" and "Sanatorium".
 Ken Annakin directed "The Verger" and "Mr. Know-All", while Harold French was responsible for "Sanatorium".

Question: Olga Lindo, was an English actress, in what year, she gave what "The Times" described as a formidable performance as Sadie Thompson in Maugham's "Rain" at the Garrick Theatre, better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer?
Answer: 1925