Tussaud's Waxworks
HEN I went to Madame Tussaud’s I was directed toward a lady attendant who seemed to be much absorbed reading something. I asked her for a catalogue in vain-she was just one of the waxworks, and the joke was played on just as many of us as would go up to her to buy a catalogue. I remember someone directed me to a policeman, He had his back to us, I was to ask him where the catalogues were on sale-but that policeman was
a waxwork, too! Of course, everybody laughed, because there was always a crowd who had been hoodwinked, and they wanted to gloat over a fresh victim, Some people, a few, that is, lost their tempers-but that was dangerous, because Madame ‘Tussaud’s is full of little traps. For instance, there were two nurses in the inquiry office, dressed exactly alike, both
with golden hair and pink and white complexions, One was alive and the other was a waxwork figure. But when you go to the exhibition for the first time and know nothing about these things, you're liable to fall in, as the saying goes.-(From "Ebor’s" Scrapbook, 2YA, June 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 106, 4 July 1941, Page 5
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