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...Kismet (First National Pictures Inc.). Everything that the Warner-controlled First National company might have been expected to do to a play whose principal sets are laid in the Caliph's harem in Bagdad has been done to Kismet, except one ? there is no color. That, from an industrial point of view, is important and interesting, for every sequence might have been built for a color-camera. The Warners have decided that in spite of its tremendous cost color brought in nothing at the box office; for the time being they have stopped using it. The only remaining element...
...once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals in the impersonation of old men is his friend George Arliss (see p. 69). Famed Skinner roles: Richelieu, The Harvester, The Honor of the Family, Kismet...
Speakeasy. The frantic urge to tell of horrors in drink dens of Manhattan has infected no less a dramatist than Edward Knoblock. Mr. Knoblock has to his credit such dramas as Milestones, with Arnold Bennett as coauthor, Kismet, Marie-Odile. Not so decidedly to his credit is this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays...
Once upon a time Edward Knoblock wrote Kismet. On Monday night his play, the Tornado, written in collaboration with Anthony Blake, received at the hands of the Repertory Players its first performances on any stage...
...Kismet was Fate as interpreted to the playgoing public by Mr. Knoblock, and the Tornado is Fate staging a comeback a la Knoblock. But the famous playwright can't leave Fate alone. Determined as he may be when he first puts her on the stage, Mr. Knoblock soon finds that she has the inscrutable ways of Woman, and the public for whom this playwright slaves are not up to the hurdles of the inscrutable...