Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Living Mask. Another Pirandello play has come to baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero?an embittered contemporary Italian?is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...
...stage, which was bedecked with the red trappings of Communism admixed with a strange assortment of banners, sat a select committee of Soviet Grand Dames, and among them, the Priest Bukharin. There was Klara Zetkin, whose kindly face is but a mask that hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov...
...death by etherization of Albert C. Hoody, mechanic, who was brought to him for emergency treatment when his finger was crushed in a stamping machine. Sutcliffe crudely amputated the finger, instructing a friend of Hoody's to anesthetize him by pouring three cans of ether on a gauze mask. Hoody died from the fumes. No autopsies were performed on any of Setcliffe's cases. He signed seven death certificates during his ten months of practice, the causes ranging from bronchitis to brain tumor...
...strive to maintain the point of view of the "civilized minority." For several years Messrs. Nathan and Mencken have been conducting a magazine known as Smart Set, one of a group aimed more or less at the "uncivilized majority." Snappy Stories, Saucy Stories, Detective Tales, Breezy Stories, The Black Mask, 'Young's Magazine, have been among Smart Set's comrades in arms...
...Paris, Gabriel Faure's opera Penelope has been revived at the Opera Comique, after ten years. This piece is in the " noble and intelligent Classic mask," conceived as a piece of chamber music, with the delicacy and original vigor that is associated with Bach's chamber music. It has achieved a succes d'estime, and testifies to the growing popularity of the classic manner...