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Lot of Five Signatures Literary Interest

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Lot of Five Signatures Literary Interest
<B>Lot of Five Signatures Literary Interest,</B></I> including:<B>Achmed Abdullah</B></I> (1881 - 1945), a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a Russian-born writer. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Chinese drama <I>Chang,</B></I> an Academy Award nominated film made in 1927. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film <I>The Lives of a Bengal Lancer</B></I>; <B>Meredith Nicholson</B></I> (1866-1947) was a best-selling Indiana author and politician. He initially worked for newspapers in Indianapolis. He wrote <I>Short Flights</B></I> in 1891, and continued to publish extensively, both poetry and prose until 1928. Nicholson entered Democratic party politics in 1928. He served for two years as a city councilman in Indianapolis. He served as Ambassador to Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua; <B>Arthur Train</B></I> (1875-1945) a practicing attorney turned author. He wrote a series of books featuring the character, Ephraim Tutt, an irascible Vermont lawyer; <B>Charles Sheldon</B></I> (1857-1946) was an American minister in the Congregational churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement. He became an advocate of the late nineteenth century stream of thought known as Christian Socialism. His theological outlook focused on the practicalities of the moral life. In the 1880s Sheldon developed a series of sermons with the unifying theme posing the question, "what would Jesus do?" when facing moral decisions. The theme of the sermons was later fictionalized into the novel <I>In His Steps</B></I>; <B>Michael Arlen</B></I> (1895-1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror nd psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America," which was filmed in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series <I>Alfred Hitchcock Presents.</B></I> <I>The Green Hat,</B></I> published in 1924, was the book that would launch Arlen's fame and fortune. <I>The Green Hat</B></I> was turned into a play, starring Tallulah Bankhead,and a Hollywood movie in 1928, starring Greta Garbo. Because <I>The Green Hat</B></I> was considered provocative in the United States, the movie was not allowed to make any references to it and was therefore dubbed <I>A Woman of Affairs.</B></I> After the publication of <I>The Green Ha</B></I>t, Arlen became almost instantly famous, rich, and like celebrities today, incessantly in the spotlight and newspapers. During this period of his fame, the mid-1920s, Arlen frequently travelled to the United States and worked on plays and films. In 1927, Arlen, joined D. H. Lawrence n Florence, where Lawrence was working on <I>Lady Chatterly's Lover,</B></I> for which Arlen served as a model for Michaelis. Very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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