Word: waxworker
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DISRAELI (George Arliss)?Audible waxwork of the Suez Canal difficulties...
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...
...improve on nature, but simply to attempt to restore lost parts and correct defects due to injuries and deep scars-in short to counteract mutilations in the best possible way. In many War hospitals, women artists were employed to make permanent records of the cases by drawings, watercolors, waxwork and clay modeling...
...places to go " in London. It contains waxwork models of celebrities-a long line of Kings and Queens, famous criminals, Nelson, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Wilson, Crippen. All the models are dressed in the costume of their times...