Tag: Somerset Maugham

February 24, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“Impropriety is the soul of wit,” so says old Somerset Maugham…

That quote is a guiding light, but then again, this one is nearly perfect: “I wasn’t kissing her, I was just whispering in her mouth,” uttered by Chico Marx when caught in flagrante. Now, you all know where I come from and about my ties to Hollywood. You also may…

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November 5, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” Somerset Maugham

August 29, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Avedon photographs Bergman — 1964

When I was young, living in London, my parents took me to see Ingrid Bergman in Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife at the Albery Theatre. I remember very little of the play (a drawing room comedy first staged in 1926 with Ethel Barrymore in the lead) but what I do…

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