THE FAMOUS TO GO

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 5

THE FAMOUS TO GO

FROM MADAME TUSSAUD'S

Madame; Tussaud's,; like newspapers, suffers Vfrorii "pressure,, of'; s'pace"--more,,,so, in fact, ifor while a "newspaper can add a couple of pages at need Madame cannot add a couple' of rooms, says the ''Manchester Guardian." And so from time to time there has to be a removal of outmoded figures to make way for the I younger idols of a heartless public. 1 Such a revision is going on at this moment,; and the choice of victims for the axe may well fill one with philosophical musings. • t :.: Palmerstbn' r' and" - Bright,-' '■■ whose political duels were applauded by a i whole nation .seventy or eighty.years ago,- are to/go down together;into the melting-pot,-, and ywth them Cobden, Bismarck, and von Moltke are to disappear from the group in the Grand Hall, which includes the Kaiser, Franz Joseph of- Austria, and Ferdi■nand of Bulgaria, and the three monarchs are to be joined instead by,,, Albert of the Belgians, Foch,. Smuts, and Pershing; Grey, however, is to; go, and the- Labour representation in Madame Tussaud's is to lose Arthur Henderson arid Tom Shaw. 'Nor 'are politicians the only people for whomVth'e public have a, short memory.' One can understand that a generation which* 'knew • hot Harry Vardon no longer: wants to see his effigy, but who-wpuld have thought.a few years, ago that not a dog would bark at the gding of D. E. Jardirie, R. E.-S.-Wyatt, W. M. Woodfull, arid Mrs. Helen Wills Moody? • "' *■ All-these,,then,; are ;to go, and who are to. come in and replace them? Miss Jean Batten, Miss^ Ceciliav. Colledge, Kemal Atatuyk,' arid:; General Franco, i "When half gods"go .-.-." ,' ' ' This is" not \ the: pnly*change that is going to happen at -Madame^ Tussaud's, which, indeed, is making more alterations than it has done at any time since it reopened.after the great 'fire of 1925. The Chagiber. of Horrors is felt to be losing its)horror, and during this winter variou3~>of the less notable'; murderers will be'igradually "replaced by dioramas of- torture' throughbiit the ages. Even today,,when; actual horrors scream at us from newsreels and photographs and the printed, page, it seems that people want- to v see horrors in | wax. '-~..' "..:''■ ■ . ;|