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...Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when...
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. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an amazingly good cineversion of John Phillips Marquand's best-selling novel of a New Englander going dutifully to seed. Mr. Marquand has told his story three times (the others: The Late George Apley, Wickford Point); Director King Vidor had only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
...years ago the Transcript was given a transfusion of new capital, reorganization, modern format, a price boost from 3? to 5?. But the Transcript, immutably loyal to a vanished Boston, fitted Novelist Marquand's description of Wickford Point: "The whole place was like a clock which was running down, an amazing sort of clock, now devoid of weights or springs or hands, yet ticking on through some ancient impetus on its own momentum...
...England long since gone to seed, John Phillips Marquand writes with affectionate malice. The Late George Apley (1937) was a full-length portrait of a Boston Brahmin who was left like Old North Church amid a new environment. Wickford Point (1939) examined the Brill family who made up for their lack of money, brains or usefulness with proud descent from a minor contemporary of Emerson and H. D. Thoreau. Last week, in H. M. Pulham, Esquire, Marquand wryly celebrated his Harvard class of 1915 and its type of New England gentleman...