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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1922, Page 1

GUILLOTINE ON STAGE. PARIS, Dec. 13. The most ghastly scene ever presented on the 'French stage—a representation of a criminal being guillotined—was enacted at the Grand Guignol last night and evoked the protetss of a large numher of the spectators. The play written by M. Andre de Lorde and M. Jean de Hernac. is' entitled “At Dawn.” Tn the first scene an apache murders his mistress. In the second he is in a prison cell with the father of his victim, who has been arrested as a forger. The third time the curtain rises it is to show the exeeiltion of the murderer. The guillotine stands up against the haze of a winter morning, and attended by the prison chaplain the apache is hurried to the sea field. The executioner and his assistants bind his arms and throw him down on the plank. The knife crashes down and the head of the murderer drops into the basket. This morning the manager of the Grand Guignol and M. Jean de Bernae were summoned to the Prefecture of Police, where it was decided that the curtain should be rung down in future just as the criminal is pushed on to the sliding planks arid that the decapitation shahid hat be shown.

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