Word: tussaud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry S. Truman was assured a decent exposure at Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in London: Presidential Aide Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan presented Clement Attlee's secretary with an old Truman grey plaid, which the secretary promised to deliverz with a suitable shirt...
...Harry S. Truman was all set to be added to Mme. Tussaud's waxworks in London. All that was lacking was a suit of clothes, hinted clothes-couponless Mme. Tussaud's to the U.S. Embassy. Explained the waxworks management: "We cannot show them without clothes...
Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, in Eng land on a camp-tour of exhibition boxing matches, had his mahogany-carved features measured for wax by London's Bernard Tussaud, of the great French wax-figure family...
...Tussaud's had its beginning in the French Revolution. The original Mme. Tussaud, born Marie Grosholtz of Swiss parents, was an accomplished modeler in wax. She was friend, companion and teacher to Louis XVI's sister and lived at court at Versailles, where she knew the great personages of the period. After the Revolution her realistic waxwork was in great demand. She modeled many of the Terrorists from life, sometimes willingly, sometimes under protest. Once she was forced to reproduce the freshly guillotined head of a Royalist. A Royalist at heart, she watched for a chance to leave...
...England with many of her images intact, put them on exhibition. She added more, taught her children how to model and how to manage. Her venture was plagued by riot, shipwreck and fire. But before her death in 1850 at 90, Marie Grosholtz Tussaud had made an institution of her exhibit in London's Baker Street, first permanent home of the collection. Succeeding Tussauds have carried on. The fingers of at least one member of the Tussaud descendants have always been trained to model in clay and wax. The "Mr. John" who died last week was such a craftsman...