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...years as director of London's Tate Gallery, Sir John Kneestub Maurice Rothenstein has made his museum one of the world's best showcases of modern art. The gallery draws as many people (1,000,000 a year) as Madame Tussaud's Waxworks. But by trying to please both ultra-modernists and conservatives, Sir John frequently gets himself into hot water...
...Wells called him "the most dangerous man in London." Madame Tussaud modeled him in wax. "Hannen Swaffer," said Press Lord Beaverbrook, "is the greatest personality that has walked down Fleet Street in our time." London's World's Press News called him "more abused praised, hated and feared than any journalist living...
...Somewhere and, microphone in hand, carried his thrilled listeners through a wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston is that one knows he is really frightened. One feels just what he must be feeling...
...work: Monster Rally, a collection of 91 of the best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...
Last week Tussaud's was shaken; their reputation for accuracy was at stake; if Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...