File puptcrit/puptcrit.0610, message 147


Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:41:22 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
From: Steve Axtell <steve-AT-axtell.com>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Fw: George Latshaw/Poupees version of "soprano" Mme


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Thanks Alan for letting us know.  George Ladshaw
has been such an inspiration to so many of us.

Ax
Steve Axtell
www.axtell.com


At 12:23 PM 10/20/2006, you wrote:

>Sorry. I dropped an "r" from puptcrit address.,
>The original message is attached.
>
>To those of you who know puppeteer George
>Latshaw, please send him a card. He has
>temporarily moved to a nursing home for therapy.
>Ecouragement from other puppeteers is an important therapy.
>
>ALAN COOK
>
>The sad news of the death of Anna Russell, known
>for hilarious musical humour on the concert
>stage, reminds me of her connection to the
>puppet world. She sang the role of the Witch to
>Humperdinck's score for Hansel & Gretel produced
>on film with stop-motion puppets by Michael Myerberg.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Cook
>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:28 PM
>To: NOTELSIE-AT-aol.com
>Cc: puptcit-AT-lists.driftline.org
>Subject: George Latshaw/Poupees version of "soprano" Mme Flo Jenkins Foster
>
>Puppeteer Geo. Latshaw (one of the GREAT ONES),
>former Editor of The Grapevine and of Puppetry
>Journal for Puppeteers of America is currently
>in a nursing home to perhaps mid-November for
>therapy. Cards can be sent for George Latshaw at
>1211 Horsemint Lane, Wesley Chapel, FL 32453
>
>It is a bit before 1 p.m. Thursday and I just got home.
>
>Last night I went to West Los Angeles to The
>Brentwood Theater, which was origiinally a
>military movie/USO show house in WW II.  Jay
>Johnson's vent show, The Two & Only recently
>played there and is now in NYC at Helen Hayes Theatre.
>
>Last night The Brentwood opened SOUVENIR, which
>had been off-Bdwy---about Mme Florence
>Foster-Jenkins, the eccentric Society lady who
>could not hit the right note in music but sold
>out Carngie Hall as a major novelty attraction.
>
>Sid & Marty Krofft had a Mme Jenkins-Foster
>marionette with heaving bosom in Les Poupees des
>Paris which I worked in many 1960s shows until
>Billy Graham had her censored by a mail campaign
>to 6 Flags over Texas in Arlington TX. (Sort of
>a preview of the RELIGION [if you can qualify it
>as legitimate religion] in politics and the
>lives of others which brought an Idiot to the White House).
>
>In POUPEES the singer puppet was voiced by an
>imitation of the original Florence
>Jenkins-Foster, and when her boobs independently moved on alternating notes
>it got the bigest laff of the show. After Billy
>Graham's minions wrote to protect the public
>from such evil, we were not allowed to move the
>boobs and the act got ZERO response unless I
>"accdentally" moved them EVER-SO-SLIGHTLY. I
>lost any respect for Uncle Billy as a result,
>but I think it was his revenge for the success
>of the first version of Poupees which played the
>Seattle World's Fair in 1962; At that time Billy
>had a crusade in the Fair Stadium and he
>specifically mentioned Poupees as sinful
>prompting Johnny Carson to comment Coast to Coast,  that  it was "naught pine"
>
> >From then on Poupees was very well attended by
> sin seekers from Idaho and other repressed points.
>
>I know some critters think religious topics
>don't apply to puppetry. Well, I don't agree if
>it affects what I can read, say or perform or think about.
>
>By the by, some of the best puppet shows I have
>seen were done by devout, loving people. One
>example was Roland Sylwester who specialized in shows for churches.
>
>ALAN COOK
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: NOTELSIE-AT-aol.com
>Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:22 PM
>To: NOTELSIE-AT-aol.com
>Cc: BNathanson-AT-aol.com
>Subject: George Latshaw
>
>Dear Friends,
>Just wanted to let you know that I spoke with Pat yesterday and she said that
>she thought George would appreciate receiving notes/cards...and asked me to
>let you know.
>
>He's been ill and is now receiving therapy.   However, on a temporary basis -
>probably until mid-November, he'll be in a nursing home -- where he is having
>the therapy administered.
>
>Pls. mail notes/cards to their home address, below, and Pat will bring them
>to him:
>
>                                    1211 Horsemint Lane
>                                    Wesley Chapel, FL 32453
>thx a lot,
>elise handelman
>
>
>
>
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