Saga of the Painlevé Problem and Analytic Capacity

This note consists of two sections. The first one gives an account of an intriguing and dramatic story of solving (not completely) the so-called Painlevé problem that consists in describing the set of removable singularities for bounded holomorphic functions. In view of this, I indulge in proposing some reminiscences about bygone events. The second section gives yet another elementary proof of the Denjoy conjecture, which is a part of the Painlevé problem.