From: "steve abrams" <sapuppets-AT-gmail.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:56:15 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Legit Commercial Pattern for Henson Puppets


Dear Richard
I think you are thinking of the Magic Onion by Bil Baird which did appear in 
a women's magazine in the 60s

The Henson pattern came later
Steve
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From: "Richard Johnson" <djdick-AT-georgiasouthern.edu>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Legit Commercial Pattern for Henson Puppets


>I agree with everything except that the patterns, script, and rights for 
>use
> were published in either 1963 or four.  By 1970 my doctorate was complete
> and I was into theatre and puppetry full time.  (The birthday I mentioned
> was in Sept. 1964 so the mag was prior to that date.  (I have moved, and 
> am
> old, and my studio has not yet moved with me.  If it had, I would have the
> pages at hand.)
>
> Richard B. Johnson, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Actor, Director,
> Puppeteer, Playwright, Teacher,Writer, Thingmaker, Mormon, Person, Fool. 
> I
> sometimes think that the last persona is the most important- and most
> valuable.
> Http://www.PuppenRich.com
> Http://three-score-and-ten-ormore.blogspot.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org]
> On Behalf Of Nancy Sander
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:24 AM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Legit Commercial Pattern for Henson Puppets
>
>
> I remember the pattern well. It was printed in the Woman's Day magazine in
> 1970 or 1971. The reason I remember it so well is that I used it for the
> beginning of a lo-o-o-ong career in puppetry.  I also met the daughter of 
> a
> man in Upstate New York who did the very same thing: i.e. begin his puppet
> career with that pattern. Nancy Sander
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org 
> [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org]On
> Behalf Of Kathleen David
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 8:02 AM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: [Puptcrit] Legit Commercial Pattern for Henson Puppets
>
> Mary-
> I know this is a long shot but you don't happen to remember or have handy
> the pattern? I'd love to know the pattern number and which company 
> produced
> it. Kath
>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Mary Horsley wrote:
>
>> I still have the patterns that one of the big pattern companies came
>> out showing duplicates of the Sesame Street characters. Henson must
>> have given
>> his permission for it.
>>
>> Mary
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