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...House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...
...ballet opens in a "forest of idylls," with Tristan and Isolde dancing before an altar on which stands a love symbol: a pair of giant legs topped by a hairy mask. In Scene 2, on "the Isles of Death," Tristan first dances with an insectlike apparition, then with something dressed as a sailing ship. In the end, Tristan is destroyed by his love, as in "the tragic nuptial rites of the praying mantis, in which the female devours the male...
Just before the black mask came down over his face, Sheridan looked up at the bright light over the death chair. A moth fluttered about it. Sheridan's weak blue eyes followed the moth intently as it circled the light. Then the mask came down over his face, guards deftly snapped the electrodes on his arms and legs, and the dynamo started up with a low whine. At 11:11 p.m. the prison physician put his stethoscope to Sheridan's chest. "This man is dead," he said in a flat voice...
...prove that the cross-burning, sheeted hoodlums of the Ku Klux Klan, though they might get the headlines, did not speak for Alabama. By an 84-to-4 vote, the state legislature made it a misdemeanor ($500 fine, or a year in jail) to appear in public wearing a mask. The bill, quickly signed and put into effect by Governor Jim Folsom, was the first anti-masking law enacted in the deep South since reconstruction days...
Rose's chalk and ink drawing of the making of the death mask of Christian Berard was far less cluttered and, for all its quiet horror, easier to take. It showed the smiling corpse of the Paris fashion arbiter elaborately bibbed in preparation for the mold maker, who sat, dabbling in a bowl of plaster, by the deathbed...