REALISTIC HORRORS.
GUILLPTINK ON Till: STACK. PARIS, l)ir. 7. Thu horrors of Grand Guifcnol theatrical fare are overdone ill Paris in lhe last scene of a play concerned with an Apache, who hilled his mistress. The play realistically depicts the murderer being dragged lo the. guillotine, his head, winch is cleverly replaced by a dummy, fulling under the knife of lhe. guillotine. This caused an uproar among the audiPHCC. Critics WPJre outraged, and hhe police directed a modifiionlion or suppression of the actual decapitation scene.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3106, 27 December 1921, Page 6
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85REALISTIC HORRORS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3106, 27 December 1921, Page 6
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