Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every detail of plot, staging and dialog the two pictures are almost identical. Artist Heideneck (Anton Walbrook), needing a subject for a magazine cover, picks up the wife of a Viennese doctor at a masquerade, paints her in nothing but mask and muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle...
Crux of the story is the picture of the nude girl in mask and muff. But cinemaudiences never see the model or the drawing. They see only clothes on the floor and people laughing the next day. For spectators with no imagination, the producers carefully took a "still" of Model Hilde von Stolz, distributed it for insertion in cinemansion advertising and programs...
...called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago, leaped into the dark. null his big motor thundering, he bored up through the heavy overcast to 20,000 ft., pulled on an oxygen mask, set off across...
...dead reckoning on the crest of a 60-m.p.h. gale. In the four hours it took him to reach the Mississippi somewhere near St. Louis, three events broke the monotony of his 375-m.p.h. speed-two glimpses of land through the clouds, a brief flurry when his mask went askew. Not until he saw the long furrows of the Alleghenies did Flyer Hughes slant down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across...
...Author Leo Lapaire, after trying in vain to interest continental producers in his story, wrote the screen play himself, got Composer Anton Profes to write a brilliant score, organized his own company, paid his highly efficient actors with rights to share in the picture's profits. The Eternal Mask won a prize, for "originality of theme," at last summer's Venice Exposition. Last week, released in the U. S. with English subtitles, it was hailed by critics as the ablest cinema study of mental aberration since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari...