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...Fine Arts will be offering at least till Wednesday a Swiss psychological study in German called "The Eternal Mask." Your German A knowledge of German won't do you any good, but neither will your ignorance of the language do you any harm. For the striking effects of the picture are all pictorial, and superimposed English titles keep you sufficietly posted as to what's being said...
...Eternal Mask" is a study of insanity, and although it would seem to an ignorant spectator that the psychology might be questioned, the drama of the thing is tremendously absorbing. The core of the film is a series of imaginary scenes depicting the wanderings of a man within his own mind. A young doctor is refused permission by his superior to try out a serum he has developed on a hopeless meningitis patient, although the young man is convinced that it is infallibly salutary. So he goes ahead and tries it anyway, and the man dies. Death was the result...
...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...sitting room, stretched out on the sofa. Soon Bridget, dozing in her room, was roused by a cry from Miss Lizzie: ''Come down here! Father's dead; someone came in and killed him!" Mr. Borden was still lying on the sofa, his face and head a mask of blood. He had been hacked to death with some sharp, heavy instrument. His body was still warm, the blood was still flowing. Neighbors came running, the house was searched; in the spare room they found the body of Mrs. Borden lying on the floor, hacked to death...
Chlorpicrin is a lung injurant which incidentally causes vomiting, strangulation and temporary blindness. It was difficult to guard against chlorpicrin in the War because none of the chemicals except charcoal in the gas-mask canister would remove it from the entering...