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...longtime cinema sound man named Jay Fonda. He got his idea from the movie sound track. He thought that a sound record on film, using a needle instead of the strong light by which a movie track is translated into sound, might have many advantages over records made of wax disks or cylinders. But how to press a sound track on film with a needle, without cutting through the film? Fonda finally solved that problem with a "yieldable bed" of felt under the film, which would permit the needle to emboss a groove in the film without cutting through...
...drug and food companies for $7,642,556 in hard cash, 307,528 shares of stock (worth $18 million). It ended with a list of products that sounds like an inventory of a housewife's cupboards: Clapp's Baby Foods, Anacin, Black Flag insecticides, Old English Floor Wax, 3-inONE Oil; BiSoDol, Kolynos Tooth paste, G. Washington Coffee. The com pany also spread into sulfa drugs, serums, vaccines and, recently, into large-scale production of penicillin...
...busts are back, can bustles be far behind? But busts are not all the way back, for "Dr." Jean Paul Fernel has failed again. Mincing, dapper, wax-mustached Jean Paul Fernel has thrice lost his doctor's license since he graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1911. Last week the Food & Drug Administration got him convicted in Chicago District Court. On trial with "Dr." Fernel was Fernel's "Breasts of Youth," a brand of capsules which he peddled (at $5 for a month's supply) through ads in Beauty and Health News...
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...
Meantime, the shrewd, energetic woman realized that she was shaping a fine commercial asset in wax. In 1802 she got to 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...