MADAME TUSSAUD'S

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 5

MADAME TUSSAUD'S

WAXWORKS BUB2TT OUT. FAMOUS SHOW DESTROYED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, March IS. Madame Tussaud's famous waxworks are afire. The flames have reached a great height. The building in Baker Street was nearly burnt out in an hour.— (A. and - X.Z. Cable.) > Madame Tus«aud's WaxworVs in Baker '■ . London, are known throughout 1 J the world. Tt is only Londoners who do i r..it see *-hem. ns Madame herself oticp ; Madame was born at Bern in 17R0 and died in IR5(\ and Iparrt thp art of wax modelling in Paris. She separated from her husband, and went to London. whpre she and her sons, who succeeded her, set up the famous collection, which has grown ever since. Only last _month npv modMs of the Royal Family were added. Most people Her particularly thp nip.mT'p*- of TTnrrnre. where models of the bifreest =ponr,drpls in history are Rxhibitpd. to?eth"r with the favourite knivps, pistols -md nthpr weapons they performed their crimes with. Anyone who hns «pen MaTit bleM- ; n"- to denth in h\n bfith never forgets it. " The great collection has for many years I been run by a syndicate nnd the actual t nroductions of Madame Tussaud herself ; have lonir piven nlace to even mnp lifpt U'-e rpnrpsontations of kimrs, criminale > and philanthropists. i —