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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...
...this story; a gypsy wandering and a sad chivalry. He found Danzel again?but he flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...
Other U. S. musicians similarly decorated are: John Alden Carpenter, composer; Herman Devries, musician, critic, gourmet, raconteur...
Professor E. C. Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, will welcome the guests. After his speech Miss Louise Alice Williams of Georgia, famous Southern raconteur, will entertain with Negro folk songs and lullabies...
...world," says the author, "is already too full of moral lectures and serious reformers; and while I trust my efforts may prove instructive to the uninitiated, my ambition is also to be hailed a welcome raconteur." The public press is daily informing Mr. Wellman that this ambition has been gratified. One Heywood Broun of The New York World, in a column devoted to this book, is on record to the effect that after reading Gentleman of the Jury, he regretted for the first time that the laws of New York State exempted newspaper men from jury duty...