“Kismet” Title Means Destiny

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6626, 12 August 1931, Page 5

“Kismet” Title Means Destiny

.“ Kismet” is the title of the-famous Edward',-Knoblock' play, which Eirst National -has picturiscd, starring, Otis Skinner, . and which is at the Regent. “Kisnict'' (or “qismet”) means distiny, or fate. An Oriental, learning that his - daughter has run oft' with, a person below her caste, will'say^.-"it was;her. Kismet,” meaning that it was her fate and beyond her control. .;N,earIy nil the Eastern people axe fatalists, and one of. the reasons why they ihit.Ve become known as.philosophical and selfcontained is. because' they excuse.; the greatest. catastrophies as bcing fi' liismet.” ■ V-;/” , It isn’t: so. much that they fepll'that what,is.done is already.done and'’there is. no : recalling it—which wouldcome under: the name of philosophy—but the Korku tells them that Allah has preordained'their lives, and any occurfbn.ee no i- 'm'atior how unusual or -.hortibicy-is met with the resignation that comes from realising that that- particular event was written in heaven before the birth of time, y '

. Three youngsters play the leads in oho of the most famous stories-eyer translated to tho screen— ‘ ‘ Tom Sawyer, ’■ ’ ■ Paramount’s immortal, classic from the; pen . of Mark Twain at--the Kosy on August 29. Jackio Coogan, whoso - ‘fame has increased since-"the days of “ The Kid.”, is seen in thb/iitlp. role. ■ -His -partner in boyhood deviltry Huckleberry Einn, -is played’.'by iftniifiif Durkin, theT.lad who amazed Broadway by his work- in Janet Beecher's “ Cour-age”-on the stage. Becky That'cher, Tom’s)flaxeS ; icurls;:sweethearH r ':ik%oxr. trayed by little Mitzi Green, the year-old marvel who has become on A-of screbndbmi’s adols in little less than': ayeaf ’srtinfei V? • ■