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...Vicente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish author: "Back from a world tour, I arrived in Paris, wrote a two-column newspaper story of my impressions, dismissed America in two lines. Said I: 'We crossed the United States at top speed. Banquets here, banquets there, newspapers, speeches, toasts, con-racts-then Japan...
...Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, describes Kerensky thus: Slender, exotic, interesting, and of an original ugliness-"ugly as only Russians are ugly...
...Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish author: "It was reported that I, ' seriously ill from an undetermined ailment,' was taken from the S.S. Franconia at Colon, C. Z., and removed to a hospital there...
...Blasco Ibanez...
...Most Dynamic of Novelists Dr. Smythe, of the International Book Review, came out of the elevator. "Well," said he, "that human dynamo is upstairs waiting for you!" Human dynamo, Blasco Ibanez certainly proved to be. Dark, white-skinned, brisk, almost jerky in his movements, with hands which noticeably wear several jeweled rings and gesticulate in square, but expressive fashion, the great Spanish spinner of yarns is a perfect echo of the life he has led. He does not speak in English. I speak no Spanish, little French. He spoke in French and I understood. A friend put my questions...