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Show . ; r 4 n NEW LONDON PLAY SENDS AND THIS HORROR DRAMA MAY BE BROUGHT TO U. S. I x ,vr WOMEN INTO HYSTERICS! j T 4 By MILTON BRONNER European Manager. N E. A. LONDON. Howling, wind outside, moaning of relatives inside, a ghastly experiment upon a man B own daughter, daugh-ter, a horrible ending to the tampering with Ihe Becrets of life and dejith these are the pretty Ingredients of a play of shudders winch, according to London papers, drives women in the audiences into hysterics "The Haud of Death" is London's 'latest authentic sensation. It is a playlel being produced at the Little Theatre, whit h is to be the home oi horrible hor-rible plays similar to those for which ihe Grand Quignol In Paris is notorious. notori-ous. Whether an Anglo -Saxon public will stand for it. is still a matter of experiment An Anglo-Saxon Lord bamberlaln has already compelled the company to eliminate souk- of ihf gruesome details PLOT OF THE PLAY A Professor L'har.-ier is supposed lo have discoered an electrical appara tns by which he is convinced he can make the human heart beat ayain hours, after ii has ceased to function He lias some morbid conversation with a 1 i nth executioner, who promises to Sue him the corpse ol the next convict con-vict beheaded by i lie guillotine, so the experiment can be tried. Itisi then the professor's own da'ichtfr is brought in dead. She has been killed in fin automobile auto-mobile jci Idenl The anguished father sees an opportunity oppor-tunity to restore his beloved child to life and si the same timt prove his scient.fic theories if carries the dead body to the ii,ble, majteg an Incision in the corpse and connects up his elec- j trlcal apparatus For ; time nothing happen. There i a dead silence save the DfOanjng of the wind outside The professor apparent!) ie convinced thai death cannot be cheated Just when he i about to gie up in despair, the giri's hand is upraised It vJKSDBBBskLLBBBBBBBBBBBBK jfikHST A The upper picture is a dramatic scene In the play when the hand of the dead girl or,ps the father's throat and throttles him to death before her fmgers can be broken awsy. The lower picture shows the scene where the professor begins the great experiment on hir, daughter an attempt to bring her back to life. move The father comes ( loser The lingers convulsively seize his throat and lock In the Knp of death Before anyone can come fo his assistance, the scientist is throtiled The thing is wonderfully performed by George P,ealb a. the professor an.l h sybil Tborndike, one of the best ac tresses on the British stage. In the original first perlorina rfi e here the mad professor brought in a heap of gleaming knives, cruel-looking forceps and other Surgical Instruments Also, when he made ihe incision in the body, a piece ot cotton in his hand was dv;ed red. VojtV the Lord Cham oerlain has barfed all instruments save one knile and th- realism of the bloodstained cotton is cul out But, just the same, nervous women are going to London's Grand Guignol lo gel the newest thrill. |