Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-25

white and proving him, at the moment of his next
halucnation, that what he has believed to be ghost
Is nothing of the sort. Preparations made. The
hour approaches The young man enters. The sup
posed ghost walks slowly toward him. Suddenlv-he
The vision of his fancee has again appeared
to him at the side of the planted vision He tottes.
sumbes and falls to the floor dead, killed by the double
shock OF what he has seen.
AMONG the recent thrilling horrors of the
Guignol have been the throwing of into
burning furnace Conceived by Laurnann): the disfg-
uration of proud beauty by vtrol, the vriol having
been substituted by jealous rival for toilet de
vised for Maurey by MonreD the killing of man by
snake which slowly crawls toward him in locked room,
springs at him. coils itself round his body and buries
its fangs in his neck devised by Jean de Bernac and
night spent by two innocent people, a man and his
wife, next to the body of dead whose death, al
though from natural must inevitably appear to
the police premeditated murder Originated by Mas
sard and Vercourt).
The horror of darkness recently planned and
cuted with incsive effect by Maurey and CASTOR
Leroux in the episode, @The Man no Saw the Devil
1t was built up IN this fashion, A partly darkened
with a jet black adjoining. A fearful
of the dark: anyway there is something uncanny,
thing wrong with that next room! His friends laugh
They at him. He is afraid, they say. He winces
They goad him Finally unable to bear their taunts
any longer, he makes to enter the
"That rooms all right they him. "Theres
tiers, lighting small wax match as he does so-a small
wax match that gives out pitully weak and made
Quate uCLle l1gnC offence "A Crash IS nedTu III the
room. The stumbles out. His eyes sticking
out of their sockets his mouth is distorted his tongue
hangs out of his frothing mouth aThe devi-great
God.the devil' he shreks in mad delirious frenzy.
He falls to the ground and his friends that blood is
streaming from him. One of them rushes into the next
room. The man had simply seen his own dim face as he
crashed against tall mirror in the dark!
A telephone which wife hears her husband be-
ing murdered; shot to death through the body
of innocent who has stepped in front of him
prevent las he hopcd) the firing of the shots; and
sentry who shoots his sweetheart to death when she is
kissing him. in order to convince the roundsman that he
has not been guilty of derection of duty,-these
among the other recent suberuges of the shock artists
1t not be believed for instant however, that
the Gugno is crude, that its thrills and shocks vul
carly staged vulgary wrought. The Guignol is po
tely artistic in its methods and manners. Its purpose
is thrill and it does That is ALL Of thrills and
shocks and clammy horrors it has made profession,
cult than this, art Yet it is wonder that
LIE Rre not long ago printed cartoon with the caption
"At the Grand Guignol,' that showed four stand
ing in line waiting to be examined by physician before
entering the theater. Under the cartoon these
words, Conforming with recent order of NJ Lepine
1.-THE head of the police, doctors must make
before each performance that the spectators free
from all weaknesses of the heart that might entail se
Gus consequences.