Word: kuyumjian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greek" withdrew from the "Greek Syndicate." He said that he thought his heart was beginning to be affected by too much playing for high stakes. Today the Syndicate carries on under M. Zografos, the "other Greek," and M. Couloumidjian, a compatriot and relative of Armenian novelist "Michael Arlen" (Dikran Kuyumjian). Last week the physicians who attended Europe's prince of gamblers concealed the cause of Death, refused to say whether he had indeed died of "gambler's heart...
Reported Engaged. Michael Arlen, whose name used to be Dikran Kuyumjian, famed Mayfair novelist, dramatist, popularizer of green hats; to Countess Atlanta Mercati, daughter of Count Alexander Mercati, onetime Lord Chamberlain to a King of Greece...
...Dikran Kuyumjian ("Michael Arlen"), novelist, was reported ill, despondent, trying to gather strength in Switzerland for an operation, his second within two years, which was "expected to diminish his nervous vitality...
George A. Doran & Co., Manhattan book publishers, lately announced that Dikran Kuyumjian, Anglo-Armenian novelist by pen-name Michael Arlen (Piracy, The Green Hat, etc.), would arrive in the U. S. coincident with the publication of his new novel, Young Men in Love (TIME, May 2). Either ignorant of Mr. Kuyumjian's movements, or reluctant to spoil the effect of sound publicity, Doran & Co. did not tell the press until last week that Mr. Kuyumjian had sailed, not for the U. S. but to Peru...
Last week a ship set out from England, bearing to the U. S. that suave young cosmopolite, born Dik-ran Kuyumjian beside the Bulgarian Danube some 35 years ago, whose activities on the banks of the Thames as Michael Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma...