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What hath got Roth: horrors of the wax museum

What hath got Roth: horrors of the wax museum Ir'I/:IT IrIBT I I3T FII3TH HORRORS OF THE WAX MUSEUM by Paul F. Roth Someone Living ? recently asked me: " Is Charlie McCarthy still living ?" Charlie McCarthy? I was in Atlanta earlier Atlanta. Near the McCarthy. this year and had the end of the tour, . two occasion to visit the wax museum at Underground events occured which have a bearing on Charlie Passing by an exhibit window which was nearly empty, I noticed a wax figure dressed in painter's coveralls sitting on the floor amidst his paint cans. A nearby sign conveyed the message that this window was being renovated and that a new diorama would soon be ready. As I passed into the next set of displays, " Fairy - Tale Land , " something bothered me about the empty window. Then I realized that people don't build a wax model of a painter. That dummy had to be some personality, fallen from popularity or notoriety. Thus the mannekin was simply being used to fill the voided window. But who ? I couldn't place the face. FairyAgain Tale Land held further a mental double-take~ wonder. Here was The a wax last exhibit portrayed dummy of an imaginery a scene wooden from Pinocchio. marionette~ I approached the manager and questioned the original identity of the painter. my theory on the discarded dummy, he answered that I was the first person observation and identified the painter as " Jack Ruby." There • are certain observations concerning modeling once to be derived from these After explaining to ever nnake that examples. to persist First, concerning after their primary Second, reality Jack Ruby, models, usefulness has ended. created, have a tendency • modelers occasionally which have about as create models of models, as much merit as that stupifying opposed to models of Pinocchio panorama. Finally, it is not unusual to find models employed where they are superfluous. Consider Charlie McCarthy, the top-hatted childe terrible - Charlie McCarthy, who engaged in memorable feuds with W. C. Fields Charlie McCarthy, who with Edgar Bergen, comprised a famous comedy act. But Edgar Bergen was a ventriloquist and Charlie was his dummy and their primary medium was radio. © 1975 by Paul F. Roth Simuletter/VI/3 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest Association for Computing Machinery

What hath got Roth: horrors of the wax museum

Roth, Paul F.
ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest , Volume 6 (2-3) – Jan 1, 1975
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Copyright © 1975 by ACM Inc.
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0163-6103
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Ir'I/:IT IrIBT I I3T FII3TH HORRORS OF THE WAX MUSEUM by Paul F. Roth Someone Living ? recently asked me: " Is Charlie McCarthy still living ?" Charlie McCarthy? I was in Atlanta earlier Atlanta. Near the McCarthy. this year and had the end of the tour, . two occasion to visit the wax museum at Underground events occured which have a bearing on Charlie Passing by an exhibit window which was nearly empty, I noticed a wax figure dressed in painter's coveralls sitting on the floor amidst his paint cans. A nearby sign conveyed the message that this window was being renovated and that a new diorama would soon be ready. As I passed into the next set of displays, " Fairy - Tale Land , " something bothered me about the empty window. Then I realized that people don't build a wax model of a painter. That dummy had to be some personality, fallen from popularity or notoriety. Thus the mannekin was simply being used to fill the voided window. But who ? I couldn't place the face. FairyAgain Tale Land held further a mental double-take~ wonder. Here was The a wax last exhibit portrayed dummy of an imaginery a scene wooden from Pinocchio. marionette~ I approached the manager and questioned the original identity of the painter. my theory on the discarded dummy, he answered that I was the first person observation and identified the painter as " Jack Ruby." There • are certain observations concerning modeling once to be derived from these After explaining to ever nnake that examples. to persist First, concerning after their primary Second, reality Jack Ruby, models, usefulness has ended. created, have a tendency • modelers occasionally which have about as create models of models, as much merit as that stupifying opposed to models of Pinocchio panorama. Finally, it is not unusual to find models employed where they are superfluous. Consider Charlie McCarthy, the top-hatted childe terrible - Charlie McCarthy, who engaged in memorable feuds with W. C. Fields Charlie McCarthy, who with Edgar Bergen, comprised a famous comedy act. But Edgar Bergen was a ventriloquist and Charlie was his dummy and their primary medium was radio. © 1975 by Paul F. Roth Simuletter/VI/3

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Published: Jan 1, 1975

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