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...Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...
Brentano's best-seller (8,000 copies) shows that even in exile the French have not forgotten sex; it is Emigrés de Luxe, a torrid tale of refugees in New York by Maurice Dekobra, worldly wise author of La Madonne des Sleepings...
Married. Grace Moore, 28, Metropolitan Opera soprano, cinemactress (New Moon); and Valentine Parara, 32, Spanish cinemactor; at Cannes, France. Some of the spectators: Arturo Toscanini, Lady Milford Haven, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arlen, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Maurice Dekobra...
...Frenchmen have as nice an appreciation of British mentality as Andre Maurois. The few do not include Maurice Dekobra. His story of how a woman wrecked a Damon-&-Pythias friendship between two English officers is as flashily improbable as an operetta, but just as agreeable if you are in the mood...
...Author. Maurice Dekobra, 45, citizen of the world, one of Europe's most popular romance-writers, has lectured at the University of Berlin, shot big game in Africa, canoed on the Nile, translated Defoe, Jack London, O. Henry into his native French. His own books have been translated into 23 languages. During the War he was liaison officer with the British, Indian and U. S. Armies, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Other books: The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, The 13th Lover, The Clown Prince, The Love Clinic, Serenade to the Hangman...