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...invitation of the School of Architecture, Mr. Arshag Fetvadjian will speak this afternoon on the "Architecture of the Armenian Churches from the Sixth to the Thirteenth Centuries." This lecture will begin at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. It will be illustrated by slides. Mr. Fetvadjian is a well-known authority on the art of the East and has written a book called "An Outline History of Armenian Architecture...
...LONDON VENTURE - Michael Arlen - Doran ($2.50). Again the "Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates" tosses a volume to eager admirers. In this case, it is his first book, an autobiographical volume. We see the young Armenian in his early days as a lonely essayist in London. We meet for the first time Shelmerdene, "that lovely lady." We find incorporated a first draft of the first story in These Charming People. We learn, in a gracefully whimsical introduction, how it was that Mr. Dikran Kuyumjian chanced to adopt the less complex and more indigenous cognomen under which he has become...
...suitor-were saved by the opportune appearance of a cigar with a long, undisturbed ash. The Romance of Iris Poole is the tale of Red Antony and his brother Roger, of the revenge of Antony upon Roger, whom he hated even as he admired him. Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian, Armenian) is reported...
...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...
...Russia is determined to have the concessions in the five Northern Persian departments which were controlled by Russian interests before the war. An Armenian who is a Russian subject and the holder of a large interest in these pre-war concessions sold his interests to English investors. At the same time the Sinclair interests have practically tied up the Persian Government in a new concession in the same district. Russia, however, refuses to recognize either of these concessions as valid and is demanding that the rights be given her. And certainly she appears to be in the strongest position...