Word: guignol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions about Addams and his work: Monster Rally, a collection of 91 of the best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...
...adopted France, Spanish-born Pablo Picasso is as much of an institution as the Eiffel Tower or the Grand-Guignol. His ideas, his loves and his wisecracks are as faithfully reported as the goings-on of any movie star. In the rest of the world he is almost as well known. His pictures hang in the world's most famed museums, and fetch prices as high as $50,000. Almost anywhere the mere mention of his name is enough to start a boiling controversy...
Last week, swallowing national pride, the Grand Guignol was modernizing with a shocker based on a trashy British novel about U.S. gangsters, Rene Raymond's No Orchids for Miss Blandish. For the benefit of patriots, Mme. Berkson explained: "It's just that we're bringing the tradition up to date...
...Bien . . . Adapted by Whodunit Editor Marcel Duhamel, Pas d'Orchidées pour Miss Blandish was as different from the old Grand Guignol classics as a Tommy gun is from a thumbscrew. Amid knifings and kneeings, kidnaping and murder, the meaty blonde Miss Blandish (Nicole Riche) spent most of two hours in panties and bra, successfully pursued by drooling Gangster Slim Grisson (Jean-Marc Tennberg). A moving touch for Grand Guignol fans: Old Ma Grisson, the boss of the gang, beats Miss Blandish into submission with a rubber hose so that Slim won't be annoyed...
Paris writhed again. Reported Ce Soir, with a wince: "Never on such a small stage and in the space of two hours has such carnage been wreaked. That is easily a record, even for the Grand Guignol." Sniffed Le Monde: "One can be rather proud of being French when one sees imported products of this kind . . ." But as the seats filled and couples in the curtained boxes began to watch the stage again, Carrefour's critic seemed to have caught the audience's mood: "We had a crise de nerfs, we twisted our handkerchiefs, we held...