Word: dikran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian), an Armenian born in a Bulgarian village, lives in London and on the Riviera. He is married (since 1928) to the beautiful Italo-U. S.-Grecian Countess Atalanta Mercati. Once a struggling writer in London, at 35 Michael Arlen's struggles are over. Smooth, cosmopolitan, he is thus described by a warm friend: "His ties and socks are a gracefully subdued symphony. His barber is the best in town. . . . His Rolls-Royce is at least six inches longer than any other Rolls-Royce. With evening dress he wears a gardenia, one white pearl...
...York Subtreasury, author of Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on Liberty Loan publicity campaigns; in Le Touquet, France. Date: Aug. 29. Age: 52. Cele- bration: a dinner party in Algy's Bar at which Edward of Wales danced first with Mrs. Vogel. Another guest: Author Michael Arlen (ne Dikran Kouyoumdjian...
Critic Orage, 57, was born in Yorkshire, England. Great & good friend of the late great Katherine Mansfield, he was the first to print her stories. Other contributors to the New Age: Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), Jack Collings Squire, W. L. George, Llewelyn Powys. During his editorship, 54 books were dedicated to him. Orage now lives in Manhattan, lectures on the art of writing, on the psychological methods of Religionist Georges Gurdjieff (TIME, March 24). Other books by him: An Alphabet of Economics; Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Dionysian Spirit of the Age; Consciousness: Animal, Human and Superhuman...