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These Charming People. Michael Arlen's second play burst upon Broadway with a vast fanfare of enthusiasm. It was reported a great success in tryout; it employed a brilliant cast. Accordingly when it turned out to be a tawdry, dull and not particularly intelligent adventure, bitterness rose in the spectators' breasts...
...story is not taken from any of the tales in the Armenian's volume of short stories of the same title. As the cinema buys titles and pins them on new plots, so Mr. Arlen borrowed his own title for box-office purposes. His chief female is married to a bald and belligerent publisher. She desires a divorce. Unfortunately the publisher holds her father's note for 10,000 pounds and is rather surly about it. Father discovers that the young man she intends marrying (he has been a general...
...literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ilk, if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
...GREEN HAT-Michael Arlen's novel made into a glittering footlight tale by Katherine Cornell, Margalo Gillmore, and one or two others...
...literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...