Tells a Story
'The Luncheon'
' Salvatore'
For the first time in his career Somerset Maugham is reading on the air a group of his own short stories, of which the last two are being broadcast this evening. The stories were published in his book ' Cosmopolitans ' in 1936. In ' The Luncheon ' Mr. Maugham recalls a misadventure that befell him when he was a young man Jiving in Paris and was ' earning bareiy enough money to keep body and soul together.'
In ' Salvatore * he draws the portrait of a man ' who possessed nothing in the world except a quality which is the rarest, the most precious, and the loveliest that anyone can have.'