Word: marquands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer to reject a few cliches: metaphors involving roots and tides appear regularly...
Ever since John P. Marquand discovered that there was a gold mine on Beacon Hill, books on Boston and Harvard have been hitting the stands with monotonous regularity. Last year's pseudo-Marquand, "Boston Adventure," was a very poor piece of goods, as most imitations are. But the latest effort, Helen Howe's "We Happy Few," is several cuts above its predecessors. Showing a speaking acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism...
...John Marquand Walker...
...Late George Apley (adapted from John P. Marquand's novel by the author and George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) neatly blends not-too-broad laughs with Beacon Street atmosphere. A pleasant footlighting of Marquand's famous satire, it will doubtless detain its thin-blooded Brahmin hero (Leo G. Carroll) on barbarian Broadway for a shockingly long time. And if the stage Apley is portrayed a little more in the rough than in the round, he never-thanks to the fine perceptiveness and wonderful finish of Actor Carroll's performance-turns into outright caricature...
...John P. Marquand, shy, tongue-in-cheek, best-selling satirist, explained that he had changed from hacking out Satevepost serials to a novel-a-year pace to escape high income taxes, only to find that his system had backfired and he had to pay higher taxes than ever.* But he defended the one-a-year system anyhow, declared: "Few people realize how much good writing can be traced to the income...