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...whole the play was disappointing. The vogue of Mr. Arlen has thinned with the increasing opinion that a good deal of his material is shoddy. It is highly colored but the dyes run. He does not talk as people talk; his new idiom is not sufficiently imaginative to wear. The phrase, employed by TIME (Sept. 22, 1924) when his books first began to sweep the land, remains the best description: he is the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates...
...play on sentimental and therefore large portions of the public cannot be denied. Alexander Woollcott put his discerning finger on the secret when he called the play a great love story. That it undoubtedly is, and as such must gain an inevitable and not unmerited popularity. But Mr. Arlen is not dealing in a new, smart medium as the world believes. It is love and sacrifice that makes The Green Hat good entertainment; not wit and glittering philosophy...
...Katharine Cornell go most of the praises. Miss Cornell, now undeniably the greatest of the younger actresses, gives the finest performance of her extraordinary career. She rather took Iris March away from Michael Arlen and made her personal property. For her acting alone the production is magnificently worth while. Margalo Gill- more gave brilliant life to Venice; Leslie Howard was pretty good as Napier. Cynics may be disappointed, but The Green Hat will unquestionably enjoy a prosperous existence...
Followed a description of a Manhattan night club (the Del Fey- formerly the El Fey) in which, among others, sat Michael Arlen, Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Goull Bishop. "There entered," said the Mirror, "a haggard looking and white haired man, his bloated face wreathed in smiles. It was Harry K. Thaw. . . Harry looked long and rudely at Michael Arlen. . . Then the chastiser of little rabbits . . . screeched...
...FAIR-Michael Arlen-Doran. ($2.50). Now Dikran Kuyunijiao has written another book, which is the last that he will write about these charming people, they do say. He has a pretty way with words, this Michael, or this Dikran. If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world...