And when Mr. Wilcox comes back from America, he is going to make a film of the book—in colour and On a grand scale; Anna Neagle may star," Mr. Tussaud states.
But that is not all he is planning. In his Bloomsbury studio is already taking shape a new and different kind of waxwork show.
"Films have done a lot to harm such things as the waxworks," said Mr. Tussaud, but people are gradually taking more interest in this old art But they must have movement. So Tm going to give it em. In Stratford-on-Avon I am going to open a show with the figures—in tableaux—of all the great Shakespearean characters. And the figures will move!
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