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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...
Famed in Chicago is Pianist Moissaye Boguslawski for the muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself...
...Muffs It would be too bad if a lady about to be presented at Buckingham Palace should whip a pistol out of her muff. That Scotland Yard had put this idea into Queen Mary's head was London's impression last week when the Lord Chamberlain announced, ''Her Majesty desires that muffs be not worn...
Furs are used extensively for trimming and edging, but big fur collars are frowned upon. Most amusing fur note is an Astrakhan muff shaped like a dachshund. Hats, also exotic, feature the stovepipe which sits high on the head, the Francois Villon, and the tiny velvet head turban with three and only three feathers. Skirts are split, but not notably longer than last year, varying from floor length to 15 in. above the floor. Trains are conspicuously absent. Predominant dress colors are black, "poison" green, purple...