The sirens are also found on mirror stands for women to remind them that their beauty and powers of irresistibility are of voice and words as well as appearance.
The highlight of the evening,however,is Joanna Burling's wife,who seizes the imagination of the audience with her mixtur of resignation and attractiveness that is just beginning to fade.
But it's fascinating. Why are people so obsessed with it? I know what it's like to be a woman who is essentially invisible to most people because of not being seen as traditionally beautiful or whatever.
One night, while she was sleeping, a little birdie came to her in her dreams and told her that if she failed to listen to her parents her beauty would fade away.
She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be any thing extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.