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Dikran Kouyoumdjian is the hero of the first story in this book. Dikran Kouyoumdjian is Author Michael Arlen's real name. But he warns us that all the characters in these stories are fictitious?he, too; his defense being that "historians have familiarized us with the truth that the past is a proper field for the imagination...
These are typical Arlen tales: A young would-be man-about-town finds himself the protector, against his inclinations, of a fascinating girl's honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves him, fascinatingly, for his good. A fascinating but somewhat irregular lady of doubtful age fascinates a young man, re-fascinates one of her old beaux, who steps in to rescue the fascinated young man?...
...Evil tells what happens when a family conceals the fact that its daughter has epilepsy so as to marry her to the richest young man in the village. It is subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later by murder. Best...
Metropolitan--"The Man I love", Mary Brian and Richard Arlen in just another talkie...
...year "The Greek" withdrew from the "Greek Syndicate." He said that he thought his heart was beginning to be affected by too much playing for high stakes. Today the Syndicate carries on under M. Zografos, the "other Greek," and M. Couloumidjian, a compatriot and relative of Armenian novelist "Michael Arlen" (Dikran Kuyumjian). Last week the physicians who attended Europe's prince of gamblers concealed the cause of Death, refused to say whether he had indeed died of "gambler's heart...