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...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...
...American Romance (MGM) is a $3,000,000,151-minute, Technicolor "epic" of the U.S'. steel industry. Producer-Director King Vidor, one of Hollywood's abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
Unhappily lacking the guidance of a book of Pulham's caliber, Vidor and his writers made up their own story. Its outline is familiar. Immigrant Steve Dangos (Brian Donlevy) walks the thousand miles from Manhattan to his first job in Minnesota's iron mines...
Satirist John Phillips Marquand, who told off the foibles and failings of New England in The Late George Apley, Wickford Point and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, herewith tells off Manhattan and its intellectual suburbs, rural Connecticut and Hollywood, in 595 pages. Almost all of them are interesting, a few quite funny, and one or two as profound as Marquand is ever likely to write. The Book-of-the Month Club, which receives three or four puffs in the course of the novel, made So Little Time its September selection...
...Pulham, Esq. (Robert Young, Hedy Lamarr, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn; TIME...