Evening star., 1935-10-27
Success of Halloween Party
Depends on Plenty of Thrills
BY BEATRICE PLUMB.

DEh AAOE HAONDs
IF THE crowd gathers at your house
on Halloween why not give them
real thrill? To scare EN- stiff
i by the Shock-and-shiver methed
Is q sure way Of making any Hallow-
cen program bowling success. The
spookier the sights and sounds the
greater the hullabaloo
SCARY SIGNS help to make them
fear the worst Write in CORY letters
on q card bearing the skull-and-cross-
bones sign-or hung from a real bone
touched up with red ink-such warn
ings as:
DO not break the silence here.
For every scream will cost you Gear
Oh, tremble, every one who reads
This doorway to pitfall leads!"
Or above a display Of hideous teeth
an old false set or complete up
per and lower" cut from orange peel
post the notice, mo chattering al
lowed; this rule also applies TO teeth"
And above a pair Of gruesome card
board skeletons: do not feed the
skeletons"
DEAD SILENCE is a grand game
to start with. as nothing gives one the
jitters so quickly as sitting silently IN
a dim room waiting for something
awful to happen. Turn out all lights.
and use "spook fires" - flashlights
dimmed by fastening blue or green
tissue paper over the lens.
DLAYERS sit in a circle on the floor.
They are warned not to make q
sound. After a few seconds OF scary
silence, . spooky voice breaks the
stiffness: Dead Silence!" 1t intones.
If anyone screams above whisper.
he will pay on the rack for his
racket" This hollow-voiced warning
can be pronounced through piece of
garden hose, one end Of which has
been secretly hidden in the room.
SPOOKY SIGHTS. A black-clad
spook with q ghastly false face hidden
in black hood can emerge from the
shadowy background whenever he
wishes by simply switching a green
dimmed fiashlight, concealed In his
left sleeve. full on his awful face. One
flash-screams!-then of again. An
other black-clad spook records with
white chalk on a blackboard the
names of all who break the silence
with even so much as q smothered
"OhI"
WHO sCREAMED?" Assorted hor-
rors are prepared in advance to en-
courage players to yell their best or
worst. Chains rattle. low moan
comes from under a nearby table . &.
then the table begins to creep slowly
across the room and out through the
doorway!
THE chains are dragged by helper
outside the door. The rest of the
stunt is done by small boy under
the table, a small, light one covered
almost to the floor with white table
cloth. When it is time for the
haunted table to start on its ghostly
rambles, the boy gets on all fours and
begins to crawl along on his knees,
carrying the table with him. A loud
knock on the door, followed by peal
of mock thunder-stones rolled on tin
Or pebbles ratified in a can. will
sufficiently paralyze everybody so that
the motive power" of the table can
escape in safety.
When the silent circle is sufficiently
jittery, almost anything will scare
them. A vacuum cleaner turned on
in the next room; an electric fan bill
lowing out the white cheesecloth it is
hidden behind; pail of tin cans
rolled down the cellar stairs; an oblig-
ing small brother bowling like dog
under the window; a bunch of bal
looms set loose to bob above their
heads; an icy clutch on their throats-
made by soft-treading helper wear
ing rubber gloves dipped in ice water.
Now is the time to let loose clock
work mouse inside the circle-and
mark up a scream against every girl!
Or dress toy train-such as one
winds up and starts going around
circle of track until it runs down.
in white paper covering all but the
wheels and key hole. Give it white
cardboard snakelike head and mark
the eyes and mouth with luminous
paint. The ghostly thing rushes furi-
ously around on the floor, entering
where the door draperies are drawn
together and disappearing from view
under their hens. In the dim light,
nobody is quite sure what it is. BY
the time it has run down, most of
the girls are on chairs, shrieking for
help
THE hollow voice announces: 1.-THE
- following mortals have screamed |
above q whisper and SO broken our
astral silence" Then follows a slow |
repeating Of the names Of all present. |
They must pay on the rack
for their racket"
THE WITCH'S WAY. All may
''pay" together by being led over any
previously prepared scary but safe
route. 1t Is dark but for dim or fltful
lighting. The spooky guide Misses