Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short with well-developed arm and back muscles. He wore a brief pair of shorts, white socks, and low sneakers that were badly torn. He also wore heavy black-horn rimmed glasses which were protected by a little wire and leather mask. He ran up and down the floor working his legs like pistons, with his hands stiffly beating the air at his sides. He carried his head high and his chest was puffed out so that he looked like nothing more than a cocky Mickey Mouse. Or I could have imagined him as Fanny Brice burlesquing the dance...
When the opposing five were struggling about his basket, he stood apart, hands on hips, head high, and contemplated the situation. There was a smirk on his face, made grotesque by the mask, as if he believed the other team could not by any means shoot a basket, which made it necessary for him to waste his strength. So he stood there, doing nothing, shuffling from one foot to the other, while the enemies he scorned made a basket...
Supposedly based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To conceal her identity, he invents a name...
...Fine Arts will be offering at least till Wednesday a Swiss psychological study in German called "The Eternal Mask." Your German A knowledge of German won't do you any good, but neither will your ignorance of the language do you any harm. For the striking effects of the picture are all pictorial, and superimposed English titles keep you sufficietly posted as to what's being said...
...Eternal Mask" is a study of insanity, and although it would seem to an ignorant spectator that the psychology might be questioned, the drama of the thing is tremendously absorbing. The core of the film is a series of imaginary scenes depicting the wanderings of a man within his own mind. A young doctor is refused permission by his superior to try out a serum he has developed on a hopeless meningitis patient, although the young man is convinced that it is infallibly salutary. So he goes ahead and tries it anyway, and the man dies. Death was the result...