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Last week a ship set out from England, bearing to the U. S. that suave young cosmopolite, born Dik-ran Kuyumjian beside the Bulgarian Danube some 35 years ago, whose activities on the banks of the Thames as Michael Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma...
Second comings are less breathless than firsts. Mr. Arlen will not again encounter overt U. S. curiosity about his fancy waist and waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends...
Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...
Politics, the Press, Finance." Then there is Venetia, the daughter of Finance; Raphael, the son of the Press, and Savil, the writer, whose resemblance to Author Arlen will provoke chitchat...
...these people fall in love with the utmost bitterness. Venetia is lost between Peter Serle and Charles Savile. Raphael grows excited about an actress but fails to commit suicide although Author Arlen has thoughtfully put a yacht at his service with this purpose in mind. In the main their actions are unimportant, their manners make the story. Other figures glitter from unexpected portions of the narrative. Mr. Arlen has not entirely relinquished his trick of reinserting personages from previous books. The immaculate George Tarlyon is seen for an instant, playing bridge...