Evening star., 1950-11-19
Vaughan Hits Peak;
Everybody's Author
Screen and TV Triunphs Put Him
Far Beyond Range of Snob Critics
By Joy Cormodx

W. Somerset Vaughan literary critics have had
On the whole Vaughan has continue
ing feud singe-handed and he
ing to his audience until ounumbers many
gate followers OF the critical snobs who have tried diminish
He has done In the various summngs-up his
and work. book here preface there and countless interviews
'a1n he o Be dd the pa a @ W
OF the Of elderly vendetts he at least will have
fully poisonous
He Kept Poise, Critics Lost Theirs
Mausham has still another superiority
his critics He the who always has kept his pose when his
opponents have lost both their tempers and their dignity
Now at at which only he and the late Bernard Shaw
to have remained lively Vaughan preparing deliver
the de BY of the movies and teevison he
and popularity Here is his greatest audience
Here, also he encounters of famished critics from
instead This is as was in the almost forgotten days when
Vaughan writing for the heaer instrument which he
The raprous welcome accorded Vaughan in his new asocia
ons cmactc affirmation of the judgment
most pleased to make of himself that he teller tales In
the Oldest OF the popular arts he has always exceed but not
to- the degree possible that the and eevon have
made him their man.
Eorier Mouehom Films Locked His Touch
The movies recognized it's worth wears aao Out f
greatest novel, Of Human Bondage the made of its
most memorable films There difference in the present rela-
tonshp medium however the neither
Vaughan his Hollywood London story buyers had high
regard warmth of feeling for each other O Human
Bondage not Vaughan picture but Leslie HowardBette
Davis hm
sharply with the release of the triumphant Trio
quality evident the Vaughan televsion deal
eetingy actor Shaw before him.
Vaughan movies and eevison His is
the attached the production such is its brilliant
glow directors others associated
with the project obliterated
they his mark the current Vaughan
productions have his supervisory attention The adapa
writing that of writers who col
1aborate with him. Nothing added to- subracted FROM the
ios three short stories that does not have his
prevail thus in the early Vaughan films Rights to
sold and Vaughan took the and went
exception single instance The Razors Edge full
length feature production of several years ago.
He's the Awoited Story Teller
is beyond debate that Maughams triumphs the
effect of the quality which has exaspated
critics three decades brought the
teller to the mediums ideally designed for telling
toore devoted the repetition of myths dehumanized
unreal, hctionS
Trio his hailed with delight quality simple
that it is astounding has thought
is kenes The characters of the three short
human them mortal moviegos recognize their
equivalents They at very best
get closer than else to genuine virtue.
Their actions wonderfully average ordinary
story the main character gets fired bunders his
greater than the villain who fred him. another,
congnital that quite the
The third the tale of two quite different youngish fall
tuberculosis sanitarium decide
though it means their early doom.
They dramatic by the absence of artificial
extremely dramatic having brought
entertainment seekers have had dire need
for just such a writer he.