Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister. So might a chipper crook (Ricardo Cortez), who gobbles peppermints and seems much interested in Jenny Wren's mail. Instead, it is the crook who solves the mystery, while a thunderstorm rages outside and a phosphorescent death mask floats about between the trees. Good sequences: flashback to reveal what the suspects say when questioned about what they were doing at the time of the murder...
More through the whole series of the twenty three gouaches than through any one picture, the artist carries his idea, but in every face there is the same stifled look as if life had killed all emotion, and left, in place of a living countenance, a strained placid mask. All the portraiture is reminiscent of O'Neill's device in "The Great God Brown...
After the emotional severity in the "passion" group, the second gallery, that devoted to the Dreyfus case, is relieving. The color is livelier, the faces are illuminated with genuine human feeling; the smiling rascality and the jovial bonhommie of the French shines through the haggard mask of the flesh. Dreyfus is not burdened with the martyrdom so often found in literature, and the sketches of the principals in the trial have a delightful vivacity. The impression of Zola is of somewhat alarming proportions, but thoroughly healthy. The spectator is given the idea that either Shahn did the work in this...
Douglas Fairbanks, 49, leaps and handstands less in Mr. Robinson Crusoe than in his famed earlier pictures, The Mark of Zorro, Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, Thief of Bagdad, Black Pirate, Iron Mask...
Music. Comrades with gramophones (and how prized is the oldest gramophone in Russia!) are now playing them openly at last, inviting their friends to dance and casting off frankly the Bolshevik-Puritan mask...