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MADAME TUSSAUD’S WAXWORKS
Hitler’s Figure Painted Red
Two Youths Arrested
London, Friday
Three green-shirted youths entered Madame Tussaud’s and smeared red paint on the wax figure of Herr Hitler and labelled it “Hitler, the murderer.” They were later arrested.
Border Watch, 1933
The day was warm; possibly hot by English standards. For the Australians, it was pleasant. They had set out on foot for the waxworks museum on Marylebone Road. Edna’s interest was professional. She often worked in wax when creating a piece for casting in bronze, and the lifelike figures created by the sculptors of Madame Tussaud’s both intrigued and impressed her. Clyde and Rowland, being painters, were less interested in the sculptures as examples of technical excellence than as contemporary curiosities.
