Home and Beauty

Home and Beauty, known in the US as Too Many Husbands, is a farce in three acts by W. Somerset Maugham. Written in 1919, it was first seen in August of that year at the Globe Theatre, Atlantic City, and subsequently at the Booth Theatre, New York, under its American title. The British premiere was in August 1919 at the Playhouse Theatre in London.

The play depicts a young woman who has remarried after her first husband was missing, presumed dead, in the First World War. When the first husband turns out to be alive she has to resolve the problem, and in the end she decides to divorce both husbands and marry a rich suitor, to the relief of her first and second husbands. Home and Beauty has been revived several times, and adapted for radio, television and the cinema and as a film musical.