THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957.
A Man of Little Faith in the GREAT AMERICAN
[ARQUAND'S· prose is a kind of mental purgative.
MARQANDS studer at the thought of
small boys shudder at the thought of castor ok.
But they read him be- cause they feel better for it. The Arst American-born Mar- Those who have achieved the quand managed comfortably in Success advocated by the the twin businesses of merchant National Association of Manu- and privateer and, indeed, be-
father
was
DREAM
PROFILE
harmices and Incredibly pront- able to Mr Marquand. Now, nfter a suitable Interlude to allow those in whom the war might have dulled appreciation of Mr Moto to recover their balance, Marquand has revived him.
JOHN PHILLIPS MARQUAND by Les Armour
clubs at Harvard.
This me he
working,
naturally, Lon
Yes, parties
so very
American In-
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DHERKASIKY
"I don't drink beenise it But out of his jack-in-the-box
comes, surprisingly, brings out the worst hit me, Shura Cherkassky. It alles
can be very nwkward when Dom ter belongs to a bouncing, vital superb plano playing.
in people give champagne parties. Cherkassity woo ho deals with little mann-full height 5 ft. Russi Ko left in 1920 for When I say I don't drink they
have who is fast becoming one America, where he became an think I am nuts.
Malco drinics names American citizen, slightly night-of the best-known
now
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Lew concerts in myself. Nobody remembered America he became His recordings were Britain and he became here
recording
He knows
THERE'S another thing."
facturers and extolled by the cante 50 rich that he felt the wrong school and, con- mariah quality indicating, perin British concert halls, In the years before the war objectionable I don't even ce whisky advertisements feel bet-constrained to pray "Lord, stay sequently, he was not elected to haps, that years pumping Ler because Marquand under-Thy hand. Thy servant hath any of the socially acceptable high explosive at his country- stands them well enough so had enough," bring to the surface whalever But John P.' trace of humility remains within. Those who have not fe.t bel- ter in the reallation that lie at the top is not so good after all.
John P. Marquand was clear- ly born to purge the mighty, His family had been rich Now Englanders with pealgrees going back to 1732 when the first Mar- quand sailed from Gueinsey.
A British
ruined in the great financial From there he went to work panic of 1907. As a consequence in an advertising agency. Clear of his father's downfall, he went ly, however, us diillusionment to live with two maiden punts. with the Great American Dream "I was a well-bred little boy was already so deep-set that he and the rug was pulled out from was doomed to failure, under me," he explains. are those who think that ho did not fall very for,
There
He went to a decent school and on to Harvard, But It was
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His employer tactfully sug gested that he retire from the business on the grounds that be did not have the "business Justfuct."
Promptly, he wrote a bad his-
In the last year Cherkasky he men have left Marquand him-has climbed from the ranks of Britain.
them the almost unknown, playing to self a Uttle shell-shocked.
concert halls and But in Mr Molo, however, was never half-empty
The wenthusiastic audiences, lo n famous. more than a diversion, serious business went on-on £15,000 year pince among sent to
known through "H. M. Pulham, Esq.," the leading planists of Europe,
Little Time," "Metville Because of h height he artist, Cherkassky the man "Su Goodwin, U.S.A The last presents an astonishing pleture might have been a dummy, chapter, published, in 1955, was es he plays, called "Sincerely, Willis Wayde,"
Wayde, young man "who, scrambles up the Industrial lad- der through the good offices of an ancient Bostonian family, the
their buulness and take over close it down ruthlessly,
He wriggles
Harcourts, lives long enough to Ares of the ploto is out in Europe. Why?
To get in an
accent that sill
It
must be psychopathie, but few after I have had just a drinkes the next morning I can- not play. Ho swims
"I know ought to get myself analysed. I live in Nice, Now, in the last few years, where even the children drinis Cherkassky hns started wine. But I and it is easier NTHING written for the top concentrating his appearances not to drink.
"The trouble is that when I of Cherkassky's reści. torical novel and sold it for
has have had a few drinks I feel i two thousand dollars.
Naturally Wayne starts out as to them he wriggles along is more than a trace of Russia he can play better. I know I can't. Shortly afterwards he was up-
My lingers won't work. Now I When proached by a couple of young a young man whose ideals are stool, stabbing at the keys on anys: "It will do me good
like a hen picking corn. Auneries. They ikke people to have worked out a plan, inen who wanted to interest him those of the Saturday Evening; the way with both hands at have a European repulation." I sit down to
10 play i try Post's industrial commentator— tempered only by the desire to the bottom of the
plano
something What if doca Cherkassky Imagine I have had
to drink. I try to feel a little And, naturally the Cherkassky repeats his wriggle lead away from the piano? fet ahead,
For intoxicated." Cheritasaky is not tempering eventually idils
To play back along the stool.
For exercise he swims. ideals and leaves only the fain with one hand at the top of the relaxeilon he sunbathes.
only teetotal, he is also a three- test bad conscience. That faint
lle doen't smoke. He doesn't day a week abstainer from good conscience is described in loving keyboard and one hand at the
To him I bottom he almost stands up. detail by Marquand. is the one redeeming feature in totally repellant! his otherwise characters.
In putting up a little money for a new magazine. Maiquand counted his money and accided that i needed a new palto shoes. Je accordingly refused to lend any.
The magazine was "Time." Marquand, however, had no need of a magazine to help him make his money. By the mide twenties when he was in his early thirues-he was a selling novellat,
best-
The Maruand thests 15, simply, that the unfettered pur- suit of material goods and the pursuit of the good lite are
of "good life"
Good to quit Boston totally Incompatible.
The veneer
By this time, too, he had poured on by the proper Bas- marrimi Christinn
Sedgwick, innlans involves either living in
daughter of a rich Bostojuan. world bearing no relation to
Marquand found his in-laws reality or living
Hulle unstable,
The break came when Mat- quand decided to blow the top off Beacon Hill with a book called "The Late George Apley."
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angry
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"There is nothing I Wre bester than a good meal. But my doctor says 1 am too fat. Any- way, nobody likes a pudgy ille man.
Three days a week I just have fruit and milk. I can't go on a steady diet. I don't like
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By Lawrence
book,
They found hypocrisy. a little irritating,
RED MARTEN. By Peter executive Nove- him a doubtful quantity,
aturally, this has not made Tisser. Michael Joseph, 159, jokes about advertising: Hats, after. ali, ore api to be him personally popular no Long and masterly novel tracing lightly-velled plea for farinera matter how many musochists may the fortunes of a farming family who love the land; and a queue up to buy his books. in 17th- and 18th-century tenuous lo love story. Not Marquand sald not so long Sweden, told in prose as tough lyams's best, but worth ago: have three friends and and close-grained as oak. Using reading, two of them don't like me." his own family history as back- The book chronic tragen Overground Sabotage
emptiness and ultra-genteel
a land shadowed by witchcraft Durrell. Faber. 155. A snobbery which concealed a sort That, of course, is an exag- and winter, where men are as says the author, that was born, of robber-brún rapoelty,
geration but, if it were not for
savago us the seasons. The not made. The composite por ChrisUna looked at the the fact that the white-haired, translation (by Naomi Walford) trait of a woman and a cly manuscript and said quietly: soft-voiced Marquand είναι
from "That's a good book to write if every outward appearance of is so good as to be un-noticeable. Alexandria assembled
memory by cliizens and lovers. you want to leave Boston."
living and
food Wing the
• SWITCHBOARD. By Roger Little action, but a precise, pain- The book was finally published aristocratie life, there would ne
Longries. Faber. 18 Cay, ful baring of character that in 1937, the year in which Mar- doubt be a lot of people ready beguiling story of love and reveals the skull beneath the quand married his second wife, to investigate him for subver advertising on the Knightsbridge skin. Adelaide Hooker.
If anyone has subveried Thereafter, the snobs and the the American Way of Life it is circuit, with a hectically funny tycoons had little peace, Mar- certainly Marquend,« quand, meanwhile, moved com- The trouble is he doesn't live like a subversive, And he has even remained, as he was born, a Unitarian.
fortably into his present home on Kent's Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts, and settled down to enjoy a close-up view of the devastation he wrinked
sion,
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tar ilke a 12s. 6d. Very superior thriller dialogue with an pitcher plant, but allows his beginning with the murder of a vietiens to twitter for too long. much-raking journalist in Ber-
lin during the Four Power Con- ference of 1954. Excellent atmo spheries and subtle rendering of the tensions of a heart-sick city.
What could be more proper than a Unitarian Harvard man⚫ INTO THE DREAMS. By At the same time, he invented with a farm on Kent's Island Edward Hyams, Langmans, 158. Mr Moio, 1 gentlemanly and membership cards to the Tragi-comedy about a millon- Japanese delective whose nd- Century and 11:0 Somerset alre's con who prefers to work Miss Gainham is going right to
in an orchard rather than the the top of her class. ventures with crime were entirly Clubs?
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Cherkassky's immaculate technique products notes that are normally never heard-but should be. He can be tender and delicate, stern and exciting. His Interpretation has pure beauty, His try-to-feel-drunk Idea comes through-even on a record.
But better still go and hear He is one of him in person. the few pianists well worth watching.
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