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George A. Doran & Co., Manhattan book publishers, lately announced that Dikran Kuyumjian, Anglo-Armenian novelist by pen-name Michael Arlen (Piracy, The Green Hat, etc.), would arrive in the U. S. coincident with the publication of his new novel, Young Men in Love (TIME, May 2). Either ignorant of Mr. Kuyumjian's movements, or reluctant to spoil the effect of sound publicity, Doran & Co. did not tell the press until last week that Mr. Kuyumjian had sailed, not for the U. S. but to Peru...
...pages are broken with epigrams: "Good servants are trustworthy and it is doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares off too noticeably for a purple passage, a witty remark...
...YoUNG MEN IN LOVE-Michael Arlen- Doran...
Miss Ferber: "Why, Mr. Arlen, you look almost like a woman...
...Arlen (softly) : "And so do you, Miss Ferber...