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Died. Richard Arlen, 75, romantic leading man who soared to stardom as a World War I aviator in Wings, a 1927 spectacular that won the first Oscar; of emphysema; in North Hollywood. Arlen appeared in some 250 films in a 50-year career that he claimed began with an unusual lucky break-a broken leg, incurred on the Paramount lot, where he was a motorbike-riding messenger boy. Sympathy brought recognition and a chance...
PASSAGE TO ARARAT by Michael J. Arlen. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page, the victims of mass murder speak out in this intensely personal history of Armenia by a gifted descendant...
Stefan Kanfer's review of Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen [Aug. 18], was excellent and caught every vibrant note expressed by Mr. Arlen in his book. Turkish governments have always denied the massacre of the Armenians; and when they could not deny it, they tried to justify it by comments similar to those of the Turkish Minister of the Interior in 1918 who replied to American protests by saying: "Those who are innocent today might be guilty tomorrow...
Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did. Instead, after the atrocious accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these...
...good chance" may seem a very modest resurrection for so much suffering. Like the old Armenians, Arlen is making another wager: on stoicism as the proper response to despair. It is both an honorable bet and a long shot - the only arguable portion of a unique and grieving book...