DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

"Kismet." at1 the De Luxe Theatre, is a remarkable picture. The scenes, laid in romantic Bagdad, .where the amazing beggar, Hajj, played by Otis Skinner, makes his adventurous way through scenes of dazzling Oriental splendour and squalor, are elaborately - conceived. Mohammedan temples, mosques, minarets, harems, underground dungeons, moonlit gardens, the Caliph's court, the swimming pool of the favourites of the wazlr, make a panorama of beauty and mystery. Haij, the beggar, on the temple steps, plots with another beggar to divide the. alms received from a- veiled sheik who has just entered Bagdad, finds-his way to favour. Is under sentence of death, and Is exiled all in one day. "Kismet" was adapted from the famous stage success by Edward Knoblock, and presents Mr. Skinner In his first talking picture role. v The picture is a gorgeous panorama, with Otis Skinner's Hajj, the stormy whining, hypocrite, doing violent deeds in the name of Allah, a part to remember. In support are a topical Budget, a \ltaphone variety number, "And How, and a Looney Tune entitled "Box" Car Blues," which concerns railway adventures.