From: Rolande Duprey <puppetpro-AT-aol.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:35:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Sir Waldo Lanchester!


So, Ray,
Was Waldo Lanchester Elsa's brother?

Rolande

On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:14 PM, PuppeteersUK wrote:

> Charles Taylor wrote (in the Risks? Risks? sequence):
> " . . . Elsa's brother was  Waldo Lanchester, a great puppeteer,  
> knighted by
> Queen Elizabeth.  That is very high recognition for puppetry indeed! "
>
> I think we need to scotch that before it gets repeated and copied  
> into a
> puppet 'history' book.
> Waldo and Muriel certainly performed in Buckingham Palace, but no- 
> one here
> has ever heard of that honour being conferred. The nearest he came  
> to that
> was that he became a Fellow of the Royal Society sometime in the  
> 1950s.
> I double checked the information with Steve Cockayne who has written a
> detailed biography of the Lanchesters titled "Master of the  
> Marionettes"
> which is due to be published later this year by the Scottish Mask  
> and Puppet
> Centre.
> Sorry to disappoint
> Ray DaSilva
>
>
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