Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donning the mask of Theocritus, and preceded by three Yard cops playing on the pipes of Pan, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, Chief of the Yard Police, Hawkshaw, big game hunter, and four-letterman extraordinary, disporting himself in true pastoral tradition, yesterday added a cow to the trophies that grace the Apted Trophy Room...
...working, surrounds the action of the picture with rich and sulphurous gloom. Fredric March, decorated with such elaborate rags and whiskers that he had to be followed about the lot by a portable dressing room, gives a splendid performance. The strange buttery face of Charles Laughton, a mask of comedy in Ruggles of Red Gap, hardens into unforgettable lines of fixed, neurotic malice in Les Miserables. More than any other single ingredient, it helps to make the picture, like David Copperfield, a superb example of what the current cinema can accomplish with a 19th Century classic...
...shortly after the turn of the Century, when the founders of modern art loudly proclaimed their independence, was the artistic merit of these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary for the apartment of a young-man-about-Paris as lounging pajamas and a bottle of port...
...encouragement to his teammates, the method by which most goalies relieve their nervous tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing gum, rarely speaks a word during a game. Instead of waving his arms, he lounges against his cage as if it were a mantelpiece. All this helps mask his real capabilities: preternaturally quick eyes, phenomenal ability to spread his bulky frame across his goal...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...