Wax Museum

Henry Allen: When we got really bored, like on rainy days at the beach, my sister and I used to play a game with our dog, Colie.



Play dead.



Not Colie playing dead, us playing dead.



We'd lie down and not move, not blink. Colie got spooked. A lot of dogs get spooked by this. She'd whine, bump us with her nose, we'd lie there. She couldn't figure it out, as if she were looking at a ghost. She'd back away, and bark, lots of barking.



Poor Colie. We'd walk her down to the ice cream place and buy her a cone.



The point here is that the 50 figures in Madame Tussauds wax museum, which opens its seventh worldwide branch today at 10th and F streets NW, make me want to bark.