Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05
j. 8. GIRLS HAVE
GREAT TIME At.
PARIS THRILLERS
No French MeIodrama Too Crew.
some for Petite Americaines
Hardly Out of Teens,
BY GEORGES DUFREsNE.
special Gable to The American.


PARIS, Oct. Allow your women
must love thrills and blood -curdling
stage dramas! l went to the Grand
Guignol Theater a few nights ago
and found the best boxes and the
front rows of the orchestra occupied
by young Americaines, many OF them
evidently still in their teens or just
out of them, calmly and unconcerned-
ly enjoying plays which would drive
even the most blase Parisienne mao
with fear, for this little theater pro-
duces only the most horrible melo-
dramas, and it takes nerves Of steel
to sit through an evenings program.
The night when 1 was there the
first drama was Gardens de
Phares" (The Lighthouse Keepers).
which shows a young man who, while
tending a lighthouse on the lonely
coast of Brittany, is suddenly seized
with hydrophobia. To save himself
the father Of the young man Is COM
PEELED to kill his son.
Grewsome Reality.
And the scenes of madness and
murder are enacted with so many
grewsome and realistic details that
several times l felt the color leaving
my cheeks and beads of cold persoi-
ration covering my forehead. But
while l repeatedly shut my eyes to
the scenes of horror and secretly
wished myself miles away, your
young and beautiful countrywumen,
without a single exception as far as
l could see, seemed to enjoy the
drama thoroughly, and one OF them,
very young girl, with face of the
most angelic beauty, who sat In the
same row with me, actually told her
companion that she was rather dis
appointed, as she had expected some
thing much more grewsome.
| sincerely hope that she did not
understand the next play, Master
Tom" written by NJ. Jose de BeryS,
the witty secretary Of la lie Par
isienne," the plot of which is quite
unprintable, and whose dialogue is
the most daring that has ever been
heard even on a Partisan stage. Ger
tainly no French young girl would
have dared to sit through it,
Last Drama Stirred.
The last drama, however, did stir
I'm the emotions Of the Americans
and they certainly would not have
been human il it had not 1t was lie
Baiser Dams la Mutt" (The Kiss in
the Night, by Maurice Level.
A young man has become blind
after the most dreadful sufferings.
His friend, little midinette from the
left bank of the Seine. has thrown
vitriol in his face in fit OF jealousy,
but he bears his fate and his suffer-
ings with heroic patience. He re-
fuses to make a complaint against
her and she is acquitted by the jury.
Her lawyer comes to thank the no.
BILE minded young man. who has only
one desire--to hear the voice Of his
beloved once more.
In the next act the young girl
comes to him, penitent and crushed.
She implores him to forgive her and
trembles wnen she sees his horribly
scared face. He begs her to let him
have one more kiss, the last. She
shudders at the thought of kissing
this dreadful face, but she consents
at last. He pulls her down on his lap
and kisses her into the eternal night.
His hand grips the back of her NECK
as II in a wise, and deaf to her cries
of despair he takes from his pocket
a bottle of vitriol and blinds her slow
ly, one eye at a time, enjoying he :
maddening pain.