Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — Great Familiarity. [ARTICLE]

Great Familiarity.

W. Somerset Maugham, the English playwright, was praising in New York an historical drama that had failed. “Yet it was singularly accurate,” said Mr. Maugham, regretfully. “As I told the author on the first night, he displayed as much familiarity with the subject as the king who kissed the parlor maid.”