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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...
...Knoblock has written scores of plays, pieced dozens of puzzles, and his facility is only rivalled by his vacuity. There is a story current that a certain young lady counted the number of lines devoted to the introduction, the development, the exposition, the climax and the conclusion of a Saturday Evening Post story, and duplicated it with a different setting, slightly different characters, and a touch more of spice, submitted the resulting confection, and received a check immediately. Knoblock has found the same royal road to riches...
...Wilson, Chairman, Miss Helen Sanderson; Roger Burton, Miss Augusta Knoblock; L. B. Chambers, Miss Gertrude Wilde; J. M. Dunning, Miss Florence Manning; I. C. Foss, Miss Glena Wells; V. H. Rowe, Miss Virginia Taylor...
...appeared as though the adapters (Jules Eckert Goodman and Edward Knoblock) were chiefly concerned with success. They pulled the plot out of shape and hung the whole evening on a severe seduction scene. A French cocotte pretty nearly undresses on the stage in order to disturb the hero to the point of incontinence. Curiously enough, the opening night audience found this episode laughable. Their findings rather wrenched the authors' purposes...