Word: guignol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those proponents of the higher criticism some sort of answer can be given, verging, indeed, upon that oddity of entities, truth. These weary, worried participants in the Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired...
Parades there will be, also, of course-a gala at the Opera, receptions by committees of French women for Legionnaires' wives, mothers; and for Legionnaires' children, guignol (Punch & Judy...
American Grand Guignol. One might expect the French horror-plays, in view of the season's successful exploitation of all phases of sex perversion, to prove fascinating box-office material. Not so. Perhaps it is because the theatre is way down in one of the Greenwich Village nooks of inaccessibility; possibly because one-act plays do not sell in Manhattan; possibly, also, because the production is heavyhanded. In one play, a paralytic suddenly discovers he has the ability to strangle daughter-in-law, which he does with gusto. In another, choice Chinese diabolisms are dramatized. On the whole, there...
...supporting company is fairly adequate, though it occasionally mistakesi foaming at the mouth for historianism. The settings seem to have been gathered up from the ruins of the Grand Guignol Players...
...Russian or Italian or French, though the nicer turns of phrase leave him relatively cold. There are always redeeming features. There are the coiling hands of Duse. There is the highly cultivated naturalness of the Moscow players. There are the snakes and daggers and dark shadows of the Grand Guignol...