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...birth of the Museum should interest them, too, for that was only surpassed by its very dramatic death. In 1841 the Museum on Bromfield Street was opened as a sort of miniature Madame Tussaud's wax works. Light musical entertainment was soon added and in 1843 the first play was produced. The gentry scorned the theatres of the time and it was not until 1844 that 'nice people' could be persuaded to attend. They were lured inside the doors by that moral production, 'The Drunkard, or, The Fallen Saved'. After that moral productions followed thick and fast, the most famous...
Fire broke out and partly destroyed the famed waxwork exhibition in Marylebone Road, London, known far and wide as Madame Tussaud's. Reconstruction is to begin at once...
...original Mme. Tussaud was a Swiss and, during the French Revolution, was in Paris, with her uncle who had a waxwork salon. She made many replicas of the guillotine victims. In 1802, she went to London, founded the exhibition which still bears her name...
...crowd"-God bless its sensible heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused. The soundings of the shallow end remain about as charted...
...Bolitho-Harp-ers ($2.00). The author has chosen the word Leviathan, meaning something formidably large, as title of a number of essays interpreting "our age"-or what the Germans call Zeitgeist. Mr. Bolitho says the saxophone is our Zeitgeist. He describes the curious cruelty of the English in Mme. Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors-the place where the effigies of famed murders are exhibited before the crime, in the act of the crime, after the crime, at the point of execution, etc. He tells of the great past, moving forward in the same 'dignified way to meet...