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Died. Henry ter Linden, 70, president of Imitation Food Products Co.; by his own hand (revolver) ; in Brooklyn. For restaurants, stores, photographers, practical jokers he made painted wax onions, cuts of beef, doughnuts, ice cream, banana splits...
...Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least have known that the beautiful hues which result from burning film are a lot more fun to watch than a movie which should still be in its pre-natal stage. Nevertheless, those people who enjoyed Frankenstein should not miss this picture; there are several...
...body of legend surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...
...Mystery of the Wax Museum...
Connoisseurs of mystery fiction may well despise The Mystery of the Wax Museum because it breaks the rule that everything must be explained at the finish. Otherwise its garish ramifications should be pleasantly exciting. It shows how a sculptor of wax statues (Lionel Atwill), apparently driven insane when his effigies go up in smoke, decides to reproduce them by the highly unlikely process of stealing suitable bodies from the morgue and embalming them in tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that...