The Golden Days of the Grand Ginol

In 19 26, jacque juvin bought out charles zibel and became the director. He set slates that were thematic for a whole evening, sometimes all penned by the same writer. The effects had become so sophisticated that during one play, when an actress had her eye gouged on stage and then revealed the gaping hole in her skull, six members of the audience lost consciousness. On another evening, what looked for all the world like a real blood transfusion taking place on stage resulted in the record of 15 fainting attendes. To be truly shocked in the genial tradition would have required something far more sensational than the little gore theatre could manage. In a magazine