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

ton and make their thriller take on the comparative
calm and peaceful air of fairy play.
In due time the who essayed to beat the Guignol
at its own game presented their thrill device to the pub
lie gaze And thriller was, A brief description of it
will suffice Called "Un Solr de Pacques. the piece has
to do with old miser who lives in sequestered VII
lage with his young daughter. The mlser has dis
charged his servant because of the latter's mpu
dence toward the girl 1t is the night of fearful
storm The girl has gone to bed The old man IS alone
in darkened room with his hoard of gold. Suddenly
strange noises heard outside the door Someone is
trying break into the house. The inference is that it
is the discharged servant to avenge himself thus
on the miser The door is locked Gradually a hole
is be made in the door the lock by the man
outside. A hand pokes its way through the hole and
begins to feel about for the key.
The miser creeps like cat over to the door With
sudden leap he seizes the hand, quickly throws heavy
cord it, and draws the cord tight with all his
strength With leer his face he slowly pulls the
hand must be wrenched off its He grins wider at
the pain of the beyond the door But this punish
ment IS not enough for one who has schemed to rob
him of his gold Fastening the cord so that the hand can
fraction of inch the old miser reaches
for candle, lights it. and, with grin of sublime ma
hcous ecstasy, holds the flame underneath the palm
Here indeed was a task for the Guigno here indeed
task for the outhorrorrng of horror But the horror
inventors ready for it. Ready for it, did say!
They already ahead of it! The horror editors said
themselves that if this ndburning episode could
blanch faces they could make those faces go whittier
still by shovng the sufferngs of the tortured person.
that is by having all the delightful little torures shown
of keeping that person the other side of door Tor off
stage Furthermore, the hand not sufficiently ten
der Experiments conducted figuratively with
tender parts of the body-such as the kneecap ct
cetera,-and finally the eyes were agreed upon. The
result and dainty little thing called The
Little House Auteuil, in which, in full view of thrill
seekers man heated irons to the white point before
the eyes of his rival whom he had strapped to chair
and then slowly and calmly proceeded to burn those
eyes out.
one of the greatest thrill triumphs of the Gugno
- revealed in episode conceived by Charles Hell
lem, William Vacross, and Pol dEstoc, and given the
title Sabotage The bare recital of the story
breeds the air of the thrill sufficiently; thrill, Incl
dentally, that got to the spine of all France.
The scene is laid in the poorly furnished room of
employee of the Paris electric light company. In
corner is little bed which the child of the workman
and of his patient wife lies very ILL., The mother tells
the father that the DOCTOR who has been to the
child short while before has said to her that the crisis
will come in about three days.
The tells his wife that he ought to go to meeting
of the labor union to which he belongs, important
matters are going be decided but says that he does
not feel like going because of their babys condition
His wife, however, urges him to do SO. Nothing can
happen" she him. because the doctor said
three days."