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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...
...airships that have been constructed during the last few years could not conceivably suffer the fate of the Shenandoah. It is true that your American airship ran into a very bad storm, almost a tornado, but it would not have broken to pieces if it had been designed according to modern plans. Aerial styles change more quickly than any other kind, but they follow the dictates of Science and are steadily improving. Soon the plans that we are so proud of now will be regarded as mere experiments. I dare not estimate the progress of the future...
...slum, educated by existence. Perhaps he is a prison graduate, bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding he has made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place, a tornado of an Irishman to whom morals count less than a wart on a deacon's ankle. He has a fist of iron, a heart of gold, imagination...
Subscriber Lee's researches have enlightened his own perplexity: TIME employed "cyclone" in its familiar U.S. usage, the distinction between tornado and cyclone being of degree, not nature...