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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Grand-Guignol began its 50th season with four new short plays which had been toned down for the benefit of queasy critics. It was not like the old days; there were only three gruesome murders, and there was no torture more horrendous than a barehanded strangulation. Nobody in the audience even fainted. The spectators, mostly old Guignol-goers and a few youngsters whose parents had warned them not to go, lounged around on rough wooden benches and had a modest emotional binge. A few couples in screened baignoires had another kind of binge on the indifferent house champagne...
That is about what Grand-Guignol audiences hope to see in the most-famed, most-repeated plays...
Such realism is a passion with the Grand-Guignol. The stop-at-nothing tradition was established by Founder Max Maurey, who died last week. It was carried on by the late Andre de Lorde, "Le Prince de la Terreur," the man who wrote the two favorite plays and many other Grand-Guignol classics. Says an old De Lorde fan: "He was a mild, sweet little man, always smiling...
...makeup, especially, Grand-Guignol-eurs excel. Their piece de resistance is a boiled, partly skinned head (the actor is wrapped in a silk stocking and daubed with putty, sponge, cloth and "blood"). The theater has a secret recipe for blood; when the stuff cools it coagulates and makes scabs. Thrill-hungry customers in the small auditorium get a dividend when they overhear the hoarse backstage whisper: "Vite, Edmond! Warm up the blood...
Born in Paris of Swiss parents, Henry Sigerist was brought to the U.S. and a Johns Hopkins professorship in 1931 by the late grand old man of medicine, William Henry Welch, first dean of Johns Hopkins' Medical School. To most U.S. physicians, Sigerist is best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings...