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...Author. As one might imagine, Michael Arlen is no Englishman. He plays, dines, dances and drinks with the blither young spirits of Mayfair-the social "Mugs" as he has called them. But he is not of, them. Born on the Danube in Bulgaria, of Armenian parents, he was taken to Manchester, as an infant, educated in schools of the "plebs" and in Switzerland. He became a journalist in London, knew poverty and loneliness...
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE-Michael Arlen-Doran ($2.50). A whimsical satire of ultra-fashionable British "society," to be put on the shelf along with Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson. For instance, there is one sketch, about a gentleman who had been "a millionaire until the War broke out, when he at once became a multimillionaire. He was offered a knighthood for his services on the field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple...