Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited the public (in newspaper ads) to come to an initiation party. About 2,000 responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...
Among the best and most beguiling disguises in the show were twisted Iroquois Indian masks of crooked-faced Go-gon-sa (a god who, like Adam, disobeyed the Creator and took a cuffing for it); a mask of the sacred, snake-devouring eagle Gurula from Ceylon, its head alive with twining cobras; Haidu, Tlinglit and Salish masks from the northwest Pacific coast, representing ancestors who could appear in various shapes at will (one, a wooden wolf-head, came open to reveal a fearsome cormorant); a proud yet friendly mask of Hamtman, Javanese version of the Indian monkey...
...pictures of Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet. Lord Halifax remained just as quiet, just as impenetrable, just as incomprehensible to the nation's Brooklyns and Broadways. Halifax never said or did anything very startling, but his patient kindness, that at first seemed to some the mere mask of condescension, convinced the U.S. at last that it was the genuine article. The U.S. decided that Halifax would never be at home in a ball park, but he was good goods. Brooklyn and Broadway knew that he could take it. Now that he was going home,* the U.S. discovered that...
...first thing any seasoned Penn alumnus does at a Mask & Wig show is to consult his program to see who wrote the music. Last week's audience at Philadelphia's Erlanger Theater looked, and was reassured. The Philadelphia dentist who has written the music for the University of Pennsylvania's last eleven shows had done it again...
This year's show, called John Paul Jones, closed after 14 performances. Reason: the chorus boys had to return to their classes, which are still on a wartime speedup schedule. The 1946 tour was one of the shortest, but its music was some of the best in the Mask & Wig Club's 58 years...