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...Brown's Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin (TIME, July 21), which has been at or near the top of the list ever since the week it came out. Runners-up were James Hilton's Random Harvest and John P. Marquand's H. M. Pulham, Esquire, both Little, Brown books. Other Little, Brown hits: Nordhoff and Hall's Botany Bay, C. S. Forester's The Captain from Connecticut, Erich Maria Remarque's Flotsam, Helen Maclnnes' Above Suspicion...
Recent graduates, however, and those familiar with the many Pulhams in New England and elsewhere, will feel that the choice of Robert Young for the title role was unwise. He never had a chance of putting it over completely. His acting is good, he obviously studied Pulham assiduously, but too many champagne and night club parts have branded him as a gay man-about-town and his manner sometimes typifies Park Avenue rather than Beacon Street. Furthermore, though his performance is as near-perfect as it could be under the circumstances, he suffers from the unfortunate handicap of not being...
King Vidor's touch is evident everywhere, and it is essentially his work that makes the picture hang together and follow the book so carefully. Charles Coburn is closer to Harvard, as Harry Pulham's father, than any one else in the cast. The drawbacks of the movie are few, however, and although some Harvard graduates may wince once or twice, America will swallow it all and love...
Hemmed in by reporters and photographers, John P. Marquand '15, yesterday presented the motion picture script of his best-selling novel, "H. M. Pulham, Esq." to the Widener Library Theatre Collection. The presentation was part of a publicity scheme intended to boost ticket sales of the M.G.M. picture, which opens in Boston tonight...
John P. Marquand '14, author of the current best seller "H. M. Pulham Esq.", will speak, and Robert S. Hillyer '17. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric will read a special poem, at the occasion of the annual banquet of the Harvard Advocate, commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the magazine...