A Man Was Going Down the Road complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon. Daedalus - he was a skillful craftsman and artist. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix and possibly also the father of Iapyx although this
Mystery of the Wax Museum was a good mystery film but was disappointed with the abrupt ending and lack of an explaining-it-all scene. However Mordaunt Hall of "The New York Times" wrote: "It is all very well in its way to have a mad scientist performing operations in well-told stories, but when a melodrama depends upon the glimpses of covered bodies in a morgue and the stealing of some of them by an insane modeler in wax, it is going too far." Hall found it "too ghastly for comfort" – although he praised the comic performances of Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh. The "Variety" reviewer