Word: waxworks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Lucy," "Sridni Vashtar," and "A Jungle Graduate" more than the average piece in the collection simply because of their ideas: a seeming love affair that takes an unusual turn, a child who wishes and imagines a murder that comes true, and a quiet story of turnabout. "The Waxwork" deserves less praise for its idea (a night in a waxwork chamber of horrors), but a great deal for its ending, which is led up to gently and tidily. "The Lady On The Grey," an echo of Circe, is a minor but still notable example by a skillful author, John Collier...
...stage purposes, James's famous novel uses too broad a canvas, possesses too subterranean a flow, treats of too complexly simple a heroine. And without the prose and insights that give it distinction in book form, Portrait comes off a waxwork...
House of Wax may have three dimensions; the plot has one, at best. It used to be known as The Murder in the Waxwork Museum or something close to that, when it was a flattie. If you've seen The Phantom of the Opera or the Hunchback of Notre Dame you have the general outline already. The only thing the latter pictures have that House of Wax doesn't is scenes of people jumping, falling, or being pushed from high places. Hollywood has missed a trick...
...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...