Word: kismet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This tone of sophistication now apparently so much the mode is better carried out in the editorials, especially the first, which explains the designation of the Freshman number as primarily mercenary: In "Kismet and Advice" too there is something genial in the bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point...
...Grace de Grammont, in 1894, was Skinner's first success as his own manager. Then came the association with Charles Frohman and at last Kismet. A few more plays?The Honor of the Family, Mister Antonio, Blood and Sand ? and this story of nearly 50 years is done...
...moving picture entertainment which the Union has ever attempted is in the nature of an experiment. The management stated yesterday that if sentiment is in favor of such an innovation, the plan will be continued and will to a certain extent replace lectures. News-reels and features, such as "Kismet", "The Miracle Man", "The Submarine Eye", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Silas Marner", if so desired, will be shown...
...elaborate screen production entitled "Kismet", featuring Otis Skinner, will take the place of Eddie Cantor and the "Midnight Rounders" at the Majestic Theatre next Monday evening...