VICAR'S THRILLS.
GRAVEYARD INSPIRATION.
LONDON, January 16.
Edgar Wallace will have to watch Rev. H. G. Wilks, vicar of Upper Thong, whoso thriller, entitled "Karstein," has been staged at Holmfirth, Yorkshire.
Mr. Wilks played the name part of a German scientist-criminal who poisons his beautiful ward to secure her fortune, and pushes the body into a coflin hidden behind a sliding panel.
The greatest thrill came when the audience saw an illusion of flesh growing on the girl's skeleton. Many of the onlookers turned away and hid their faces in their handkerchiefs. Mrs. Wilks was in the coffin and the vicar's barelegged beauty chorus, "The Thongbirds," danced and sang. Mr. Wilks admitted that he got his inspiration while walking in the graveyard of his church.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 7
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