New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-25

.;.o and make their thriller take on the comparative
W. w. and peaceful air of a fairy play
ca" I, time the men who eSSayed TO beat the GmgnOl
III -~ r,e presented their thrill device TO the pub
q. 10 And thriller II was. bret description OF 1t
DC go called "Un Soir de Pacques, the piece has
40 with an old miser who lives IN sequestered VII
We with his young daughter. Inc mlSer has dis
ns5 his one servant because of the latter's impu-
Cl@e +o-q~I the girl 1t IS the night of a fearful
CEN rfa 7irl has gone 10 bed The old man is alone
y darkcnel room with his hoard OF gold. Suddenly
IL noises are heard outside the door. Someone IS
irving 70 break into the mouse ne inference Is that II
nt~ discharged servant come to ayenge himself thus
: +be -,is.~ The door Is locked. Gradually hole
IN % be made IN the door over the lock by the man
S.s;3o 4 hand pokes Its way through the hole and
Isgins % feel about for the key.
RI rr.r creeDs Ike q cat over 70 the door With
55eo 1a he seizes the hand, quickly throws heavy
80 over IT, and draws the cord tight with all his
,y+h With a leer on his face, he slowly pulls the
go fighter tighter tighter still, until 1t seems the
ND mus. De wrenched off its arm. He grins wider at
No oa;n Of the man beyond the door. But this punish
,t Is r.- enough for one who has SChemed TO rob
IN If his d Fastening the cord so that the hand can
not move even fraction Of inch, the old iser reaches
,- can Fec lights It, and, with grin OF sublime, ma
r;ors e-. -v holds the flame underneath the palm.
Here IN Iced was a task for the Guigno here indeed
tast for e outhorrorring of horror, But the horror
,ventors were ready for it. Ready for it. did Say?
e,. Va- READY ahead of it. The horror editors said
20 tbersEre, that if this handwriting episode could
Tancb faces, they could make those faces 60 winter
still by soairg the sutferngs OF the tortured person:
ba+ b having all the delightful little fortunes shown
On the STAGE and the person OF the individual instead
fteenin that person on the other side of door Tor of
agel Furthermore the hand not sufficiently ten
der EXPERIMENTS were conducted fgurativcly with
more ten parts of the body,-such as the kneecap, ct
era-anl finally the eyes were agreed upon The
rss,lt Wa cute and dainty little thing called "The
LITTLE H1.-a az Aueuil in which, in full view of thrill
seekers man heated irons TO the white point before
the ewes o his rival whom he had strapped to chair,
and then 9wly and calmly proceeded to burn those
eyes out
one the greatest thrill trumphs Of the Guignol was
" revealed IN an episode conceived by Charles Hell
lem William Valcross, and Pol d'Esoc, and given the
title ~Sat..age The mere bare recital of the story
breeds ,ha air Of the thrill sufficiently; thrill incl
dentalv that got TO the spine Of all France.
The scene is laid in the poorly furnished room OF an
enolovee . the Paris electric light company In one
corner is little bed which the child OF the workman
and Of his patient wife lies very ILL., The mother tells
me father that the doctor who has been 70 see the
child short while before has said to her that the crisis
will com, in about three days.
Tbe-ran tells his wife that he ought 70 60 TO meeting
NJ the labor union 70 which he belongs, important
mater are going to be decided; but says that he does
not feel Ike going because Of their babyS condition.
His WIFE however, urges him to do so. Nothing can
bappen She treasures him, because the doctor said