Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boost to Chinese morale was the energetically spread rumor that Germany's crack Drillmaster General Hans von Seeckt ("the man with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...
...much action in The Silver Cord but if the cinema does not improve upon the play in this respect it has the compensating advantage of being able to show close-ups of Miss Crews's face, as it becomes ingratiating, anxious, angry, greedy, terrified and, finally, a twitching mask of misdirected lust. Good shot: Mrs. Phelps spilling a cocktail when her daughter-in-law says that she expects a baby...
...Mask & the Face (by Luigi Chiarelli; Theatre Guild, producer). Count Paolo Grazia (Stanley Ridges) deeply pitied his cuckold friend Zanotti (Leo G. Carroll). In fact, he was a little disgusted with Zanotti's philosophic complacency in regard to Signora Zanotti's shameless philandering. Zanotti held that a woman, being essentially frivolous, was not to be blamed for her perverse breaches of the moral code. As for the Count, he'd kill his wife (Judith Anderson) if he caught her in another man's arms, that's what he'd do. Just before the close...
...macabre but wavering to the left and then to the right. A low wailing emitted from the narrow brick chimney. The Vagabond rushed thither to peer sureptitiously into a sordid room. A child, not much older than three, indifferently sucked its index finger; a woman, with delicate almost mask-like features brushed her hair, occasionally glancing at the child, then to a corner where an elderly man, sitting on a crummy stool, whittled whistlewood: His salt worn cheeks, drawn closely together below two unevenly coloured eyes resembling niches in the side of a chameleon, suddenly moved backward; uneven and sinisterly...
...tell of Trotsky who "might almost have been one of those Society of Jesus guys"; and Hitler ("Funny name too! . . .ha, ha, ha!"); as well as good "old Mussolini" snatch babies, "youthies," "giovanni." the outcome is that Trotsky has "the big hips of a buxom nanny and the frowning mask of an emotional Polish pianist," an immense advantage over Mussolini and Hitler ("ha, ha, ha again") who can only shout the magic word "Giovenezza...