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...last his brief hour has been strutted on the stage of public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright leaves while bastard epigrams evince a quick decay...
...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...
...Persia, rummaged out of a museum storeroom, together with numerous coins of the Golden Horde (Tartars) who set up a dynasty in Russia in the 13th Century; 2) on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Erivan, Armenia, the head of a life-size statue of an early Armenian King, wearing what seemed to be Christian earrings; 3) of Neanderthal skeletons (fourth human era), dug also in Erivan...
...reporter on the Aquitania rushed up a fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
...noticed that those feminine admirers who seemed disappointed at first glance succumbed to his conversation and dancing. Arlen, when not too tired by the vast entertainment which 15 showered around him, is pleasant, witty and kindly. He is cordial to all comers, and really likes them. A delegation of Armenians, headed by a priest, met him at the dock; he was embarrassed, pleased and touched. Very nearly run over in the street by a truck, he remarked: "It takes more than a New York motor to massacre an Armenian." The social reporter on the dock asked him if he liked...