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(1920s) The Green Hat
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
Books
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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The Green Hat
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<p>(SEPTEMBER 8, 1924)
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<p> The Green Hat--Michael Arlen. Many think of Michael Arlen's
writing as "a delicious sewer." Others feel that he strains
palpably at cleverness. Neither criticism is wholly just.
Arlen's "decadence" need hardly be called sewerish for it is
quite sincere, never vulgar, anything but reprehensible to fair
minds. Arlen's "cleverness" is indisputable, save by the very
dull; and it is beside the point that his people are wholly
impossible as well as wholly charming. They are created by a
sensitive person possessed of a gorgeous sense of the
ridiculous, a rare way with words, and a perception half
dissolute, half profound.
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<p> As one might imagine, Michael Arlen is no Englishman. He
plays, dines, dances and drinks with the blither young spirits
of Mayfair--the social "Mugs" as he has called them. But he is
not of them. Born on the Danube, in Bulgaria, of Armenian
parents, he was taken to Manchester, as an infant, educated in
schools of the "plebs" and in Switzerland. He became a
journalist in London, knew poverty and loneliness.</p>
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