Word: guignol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition not half so lascivious or persuasive as the text of the average A. H. Woods farce. The operatic pantomime, when well done, evokes a scholarly mood and more estheticism than erotic thrills. The scene of the head is moderately horrible after the fashion of the traditional Grand Guignol, but is certainly not of a sort to lead bashful youth astray. Mary Garden's stilted dance might be witnessed by the frailest virtue without danger...
...Grand Guignol.* Manhattan had steeled itself too sternly against the advent of this reign of terror. The horrors failed to horrify. Accordingly those who came to cringe remained to scoff, and the opening was declared just another one of those things...
...Grand Guignol occupies a unique niche in the theatrical world; faithful followers of the drama can hardly omit it from their agenda and retain the while their self-respect. For the casual amusement seeker the entertainment is only mildly recommended. Particularly if his linguistic equipment is limited to "oui" and "Zelli...
...Grand Guignol is a French repertory company operating normally in a converted church at the end of the Rue Chaptal, Paris. They specialize in farce and bizarre tragedy...
...Lewis Richard Farnell, a bent, commonplace-looking don of Oxford, retired after his three years of service as Vice Chancellor of the University. He it was who banned Grand Guignol plays, closed the fashionable Bullingdon Club and Blue Riband, placed certain cafes out of bounds and objected to Miss A. Maude Royden (lecturer), Marie C. Stopes (birth control), George Lansbury (Socialist). He once called in the police to analyze supposedly powder-poisoned chocolates sent him by annoyed undergraduates. The police found tooth powder. He was succeeded by Dr. Joseph Wells...