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Then Chambers' mother-in-law, Mme. Rene, his wife, and his daughter Conny become succubi--a group of seductive demons who have usurped the place of a weakening Deity. Mary is a priestess, and Jay Samson, another law student who is living in the house, is a lost soul who has surrendered to evil. Jean Rene, Mme. Rene's husband, is an old soldier who detests Chambers' (or God's) aversion to violence. Now we have every character in the play crammed into a neat, symbolic, gift-wrapped package, with Wake's last words as a decorative bow: "Where...
...sweet-faced leering, strutting, impish, delightful horror. Her mimicry of Jean's war story is hilarious. Her mother Elizabeth, played by Diana Allen, is an equally fine variation on the French sex-killer archetype. Together, they crawl all over Wake like a pair of black widows. Jaimie Rosenthal, as Mme. Rene, skillfully portrays a more mellow arachnid, whose venomous charm has degenerated into mere tittering...
...figures as its predecessor in an out-of-the-way, abandoned brewery, which last year drew half a million visitors. For Frank L. Dennis, a former Washington newspaperman and lawyer, has spectacularly revived in this age of electronic entertainment the macabre gimmick with which, 163 years ago, spidery old Mme. Tussaud made a killing...
...rather, killings. In a world without television, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks supplied nightmare fodder to generations of Londoners, with its penumbral acres of dismemberments, garrotings, stabbings, shootings and dungeon doings. After visiting Mme. Tussaud's while on European assignment as a U.S. information officer, Dennis decided that a less gory and more educational waxworks might well be popular with tourists in the nation's capital. He was so right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn...
...Edith Halpert helped make U.S. art dealing truly coed. The Russians recall her, when she was curator of the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, as the woman who told off President Eisenhower when he implied criticism of the show's modern look. The French respect her as Mme. Don Ton, for her gallery's name, Downtown, although it has been located in mid-Manhattan since...