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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 13, 1964
World's Fair Hosts Huge Wax Museum
NEW YORK—(UPI)The 4,000-year-old art of wax sculpture will be represented by a million dollar waxworks museum at the New York World's Fair.
It's nice to know that the art of wax sculpture, invented by the ancient Egyptians as part of their elaborate funerary arrangements, is undergoing a considerable revival right now after a decline for half a century that threatened to extinguish it.
Fifty years ago there were 300 waxworks museums scattered around the United States, miniatures of the famous Madame Tussaud's establishment in London.
BUT BY THE time the Seattle world's fair opened in 1962, there wasn't a single wax works left in the United States. There only were wax sculptors working in Hollywood making dummies for the most dangerous stunt scenes in films.
Since wax museums with life-like sculptures of famous personalities from the Bible, history, literature, the underworld and contemporary politics always have been immensely popular at big fairs, the Seattle fair people had to turn to Europe for a wax museum.
They found one in the Musee Procopiu in Paris and the financial backers in Lou and Manny Walter of Los Angeles.
THE WALTER brothers had made money in electronics components in California and undertook the $250,-000 waxworks museum for the Seattle fair as a lark.
But on the eve of the fair, Tudor Procopius died. With a $250,000 commitment on their hands, the Walter brothers had to learn in a hurry to complete the museum and run it themselves. They learned so well that the museum was a huge attraction and earned a big profit.
So now they are putting on a $1 million waxworks show for New York fair. It will include the star attraction of the Seattle fair, the amazing reproduction in wax sculpture of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" by Katherine Stubergh, regarded as about the best wax sculptor in this country.
IT WAS THE only American-
made work in the wax museum at the Seattle fair—but was definitely the hit of the show.
The Walters' Seattle show stirred up so much interest that about 40 new waxworks museums have been set up in various cities of the United States since then.
The Walters' waxworks show in Flushing Meadow will be peoped by some of the celebrities who have been star attractions in waxworks museum over the years — Cardinal Richelieu, Marie Antoinette, Chopin and George Sand. Daniel in the Lions' Den, Moses and the Ten Commandments, the Madonna and Child, Joan of Arc at the Stake and Lady Godiva.
But there also will be more recent attractions — the last five presidents of the United States, famous figures like Prime Minister Ben Gurion of Israel, the late Pope John and Pope Paul and a scaresome family of monsters and villains to the theatre and the world of mythology
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