Evening star., 1949-05-08
Treasury Of Vaughan
Still Open to Films
Quartet Fuses Four Short Stories
Into Bright Entertainment
BY Jay Cormody
promo Editor Of The Sser

a funny place for to find himself writing
Washington Three days here should give any one another
Nevertheless all that will have to await the disposal Of pleasantly
lingering memory of home
Of W. Somerset Maughams short
stories.
sense phrase something concevably
than of these cinema masterpieces namely greatly
Vaughan Rates the Credit.
question of where the credit lies namely
with Magham Filled as it is with dozen subordinate
acting these merely fall into the total OF
what expected of artists by
1t has been way directors and
nothing but dramatically observed characters and life to
work on
This long this century, except for
Certainly should have taken all element OF
surprise excellence Of another Vaughan picture
strangely does quartet is different in that
represents complete-and the
ton which that four separate totally unrelated stories cannot
be put together in a single, cohesive screenplay
These four tales have not only continuity but sharply
dramatic continuity of Maughams character
point Of view that has remained fixed and cleareyed in
century that has tried to blow itself bits 1t is the
of who managed to see life whole while writing OF IT
small fragments the shortest of his short stories 1t is this
and more, and it is rather wonderful
Critics Delight Universal.
unaloyed delight critics quartet in the
exception Of "Razors Edge simple thing explain.
their man-of all those whose works the screen has
clamored for-for a number of excellent reasons
The first rated of the most
sophisticated intelligent civilized etc. of goth century writer's
of diminishing his audience they taken with the
desire Yet this cvzed intelligent"
in the most popular medium of fiction namely the cinema
Whole Bag of Tales Remains
convincing proof least convnceabe movie
cheap sleazy repetitous unimagnative.
obseant fiction not the most widely marketable he is not
of quartet should whole
full of brief but brilliant fiction that will look encng
the worlds movie
Writing could not be simple and lucid than that
four stories of quartet Nor could
literary mabe with the of
public acceptance.
Nevertheless the dressed this style not the
commonplace creatures normally encountered magazines novels
They fresh attractive dramatic and
yet ke than Andy Hardy Blonde Dagwood
the other presumably basic humans of flm fiction.
male instance the the father
the films Stories "The Facts of Life.
All Vaughan done take the advice fathers have
gamble not lend and not to
mixed with adventuresses-and twist
that makes it complete delight understandable and
enjoyable have the
Other Characters Identifable
The manifold others the remaining three stories Of the m
cycle quite easily dentihable.
All THE Colonels Lady" mild taken-for
granted wives who not be able to write ensaonaly
poetry but who certainly must wish they could The
rich amy who wanted to be pianist is countless
misunderstood in their indifference family
tradition.
the insuferable addict of kite flying in The Kite" is
recognizable human clearly belongs the gallery
with the movies WE'LL
have much more to do