An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts. (IMDb)
Month: May 2020
Green Hornet Returns
Big Little Books, Green Hornet Returns #1496, Whitman Publishing, 1941
Pathe, 1932
Dime Mystery Magazine, Oct, 1938
I don’t remember her name, but her face sure rings a bell…
Lingerie for Mother, 1948
Happy Mother’s Day
Family Portrait, 1940
Unsure of date, though two sources attribute it to 1940, so I’ll go with that.
1949 Fageol Supersonic
Film Fun, Dec, 1934
Cover by Enoch Bolles
The Beginning of the “Age of Masks”
The coming age of masks marks a definite period in that delightful process known as the decline and fall of a civilization – a period when a race that has lost its pioneering freshness has still some faint lingering regard for the appearance of things. It is the time of delicate pretense; it is the beginning of wisdom and the end of faith. Upon the crumbling remains of the dying civilization, the tired survivors begin to erect their rococo delicacies; the voice of decadent beauty their ears are becoming sensitively attuned; and their faces they wear the simulations of their former virtues.
Here in America – and especially in the eastern part of America – this period of gentle decadence has gradually crept upon us until we are now in somewhat the same condition as was Rome under the Emperor Commodus. The evidences of this fact are altogether indisputable; one need name only the vogue of prize-fighting, musical comedies and “The Sheik.”
Let us, then, not fail to enjoy to the utmost this “Age of Masks” – “though much is take, much remains” – and perhaps to some of us, as we don our symbols of decadence, we come to the delightful fate of Lord George Hell, Max Beerbohm’s “Happy Hypocrite”, who eventually came to resemble his pure and innocent mask.
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
1955 Dust Cover for Erle Stanly Gardner’s The Case of the Glamorous Ghost