Police in Britain have arrested two environmental protesters who threw chocolate cake at a waxwork effigy of King Charles III at Madame Tussauds in London.
After Curtius switched from doing waxworks of people's anatomy, of body parts, to doing waxworks of actual people, he started seeing a lot more interest.
He was such an unnatural colour to look at that the men of roundabouts and waxwork shows seemed gentlemen beside him; but he considered them low company, and remained aloof.
Some of the ideas which have produced those books are more complex than others, but the majority start out with the stark simplicity of a department store window display or a waxwork tableau.
It would no longer be acceptable to make celebratory waxworks of people who might be considered politically sensitive, and he needed to make some changes to stay alive.