Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05
j; 8. GIRLS HAVE
GREAT TIME At.
PARIS THR|LLERS
No French MeIodrama Too Grew
some for Petite AmeriCaineS
Hardly Out Of Teens,
BY GEORGES DUFREsNE.
Special Cable to The American.

opeSldl OaDiG 10 ne american
PARIS, oct. Allow your women
must love thrills and blood -Curdling
stage dramas, l went to the Grand
Guigno Theater a few nights ago
and found the best boxes and the
front rows Of the orchestra occupied
ny young Americaines, many Of them
evidently still in their teens or just
out of them calmly and unconcerned-
~ enjoying plays which would drive
even the most blase Parislenne mad
with fear for this little theater pro
duces only the most horrible melo-
dtamas. and Il takes nerves OF steel
10 sit through an evenings program.
Tho night when | was there the
first drama was Gardens de
Phares" CThe Lighthouse Keepers.
which shows young man who. while
tending lighthouse on the lionel =
coast Of Brittany. is suddenly seized
with hydrophobia. To save himself
the father OF the young man is com
PEELED to kin mis- son.
Grewsome Reality.
And the scenes of madness and
murder are enacted with so many
grcwsome and realistic details that
several times | felt the color leaving
my cheeks and beads Of cold persUi-
ration covering my forehead But
while | repeatedly shut my eyes II
the scenes Of horror and secretly
wished myself miles away, your
young and beautiful countrywomen.
without "a single exception as far as
! could see, seemed TO enjoy the
drama thoroughly and one OF them,
"a very young girl, with n 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 II. Jose de BtrvS,
the witty secretary Of La lie Par
iSicnnc." the plot uf which is quite
unprintahle, and whose dialogue iy
the most daring that has ever been
heard even on Partisan stage. Ger
tainly no French young girl wou d
have dared to sit through IT,
Last Drama Stirred.
The last drama, however, did stir
IN the emotions Of the Americans
md they certainly would not have
been human IL II had not II was lie
Baiser Dams la Mutt" (The Kiss in
the NighD, by Maurice Level
A young man has become blind
after the most dreadful sufferings
His friend, a little midinette from the
left bank of the Seine. has thrown
vitriol In his face in At 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 10 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 hOrribl"
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 nc"N
as II in a wise, and deaf to her cries
of despair, he takes from his pocket
bottle Of vitriol and blinds her slow
", one eye at time, enjoying he
maddening pain.