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HE authors of most radio biographies (such as 3YA’s present Sunday series, "Famous Women of . History") might well take a number of lectures from the BBC team who produced the feature "Madame Tussaud,"’ broadcast recently from the station. The backbone of the thing was a monologue by Madame in person, with all her cheerful reminiscences of modelling the heads of the newly-guillotined, which was immense fun because the authors had determined to make a character of her, and thus produced a most entertaining picture of a tough old show-woman- Monsieur Tussaud having been abandoned somewhere in France. One trifling historical error: "It takes a Frenchwoman to make money like that," said Madame, with a self-satisfied chuckle, but in fact the old battle-axe came from Geneva‘ and had a brother killed when the Parisians wiped out the Swiss Guard in 1792, Excellent use was also made of the curious hold which the waxworks, so oddly lifelike, have obtained upon the popular imagination. The sound of the caretaker’s footsteps, passing alone through the Chamber of Horrors, was singularly effective, —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 300, 23 March 1945, Page 8
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179Graveyard Images New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 300, 23 March 1945, Page 8
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