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The History of the Teatro Del La Mud

The Teatro della Mud opened in March of 1945, as the Allied armies were pushing deeper into Germany. The show was extended for weeks and weeks and weeks. It attracted a hundred thousand visitors who paid what little money they had to witness this luxurious vision of Paris. France didn't want the mannequins anymore. They didn't need them back. In 1952, a wealthy San Franciscan named Alma de Brettville Sprechles shipped them off to her pet project, a museum in rural Washington state.

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