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AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL! LE SYSTEME DU DOCTEUR GOUDRON ET DU PRO- FESSEUR PLUME What this system really tmplres. POE! Poe by the gift of the Lord! Poe in his tragedy, Black melodrama, Horrid, overwhelming, Nerve-shattering maniacal effort Dictated by morphia, Poe The American poet Translated by Baudelaire, Stephen Mallarmé, And other people Of singular and perhaps Unique talent (Now joined by André de Lordes) Is a splendid success At the quaint little theatre Of Montmartre. Speed !—I mean Poe! 1 A review on ‘‘ the Soothing System ” in its o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL 93 Horror holds one from the outset: but when from words we go to deeds, the formulation of the Logos in the plastic, alas! the element of music-hall supervenes— O Catulle Mendés! didst thou say, forced like Galileo to thy knees by an iniquitous tribunal; Personne ne croit aces cadavres!”? Yet wedoso. The director's murder is done magnificently; better than Macbeth, better than the Cenci ; better than the Mother’s Tragedy. No! this praise is too fulsome, too indiscriminate; but any way, better than the other two. He …
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL g1 ever been presented to the astounded consciousness of mortal men. Quickly overrunning the civilized world, it has penetrated (auspice Teucro) into the very remotest steppes of Central Asia, the wildest savannahs of the American prairie, where dog and oyster burble in plethoric harmony among the verdant shoots of cactus and coyote, where the giant Appomattox rolls in sulky majesty to the red bays of the Pacific. The Society formed to exploit this unheard- of invention is, naturally, of a most secret nature: perhaps…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…shions Mary Rogers. - Ode to Gerald Festus Kelly A Rondel . . The Chemist’s Love-Song Bal Masqué Lines in Spring . , Au Theatre du Grand Guignol . PAGE 47 49 59° 52 54 56 61 63 65 67 72 74 76 79 80 81 82 84 85 87 88 89
1904 · PDF PAGE 106
94 AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL ha, ha, ha! Shudder, shiver, shake, shriek, do everything that begins with sh, except hush—and that is Irish, after all. Of one thing only do I warn you: from start to finish there is not a word or a gesture that could shock the most innocent maiden, or bring a gleam to the eye of the least hardened roué, or the most expert member of the Vigilance Society. ‘ This, in a French theatre, is as rare as it is delightful ; 4 and though it is conditioned, like all phenomena, by space, time, and causality, it is none the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
90 AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL [Unhappily our contributor returned alive from watch- ing the start of the Paris-Madrid race. He had provided himself with a copy of Mr Henley’s “ Imperishable Poem,”’ and the metre, in which there is but one rule, viz. “anything scans,” seems to have run away with him. Would the motor had done as the metre! He will be printed as prose.—Ed.| Filled with anticipations of the most blood-curdling order, we sought the breezy heights of Montmartre. The Sacré Coeur, looking more than ever like a compromise between an In…
1904 · PDF PAGE 104
92 AU THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL judicious pleasure. You ask therefore in vain for detail. “La Mineure” (No. 3) was, on the other hand, even more life-like than No. 1. A witness retained by justice to identify a criminal discovers him by chance in the person of the President of the Court himself. She is hauled to the deepest dungeons of Saint Lazare, and everything thus ends happily. For one moment the nerves of the spectator are braced up to meet the sword of Damocles—and then, with a single blow, the Juge d’Instruction subtly and delicately str…