Masks

At 6.30 on a winter evening, in the waiting-room of a surburban railway station sit four dull looking persons. Two girls enter, one of them sensitive and wondering what is going on in the minds behind the mask-like faces, the other unable to take any interest. With the aid of spotlights, a 'thought scene' is played for each character. The elderly spinster consults a fortune-teller as to whether she shall give up her little home to oblige an unsympathetic niece, and is relieved when she is advised against it. The young wife takes leave of her soldier husband. The old woman spends much needed money on a violin for her little grandson, who craves for one; there is an angry scene with his mother, who points out that it is of no use wthout lessons, but the grandmother resolves that he shall have those too. The meek little man fears that he is going to be sacked and gets a rise instead. Each has his or her hidden drama.