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Marriages Are Made in Heaven by W. Somerset Maugham - The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature
Marriages Are Made in Heaven (The Venture. An Annual of Art and Literature. London: John Baillie’s, 1903)Marriages Are Made in Heaven, W. Somerset Maugham’s first published play, a curtain-raiser, is relatively unknown except to familiar readers of his (his fans, that is). It was performed on 3 January 1902 at Schall und Rauch in Berlin in its German translation, done with the help of a friend according to Stott and by himself according to Calder, as Schiffbrüchig (“Shipwrecked”), produced by M…