Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:12:49 -0500
From: "Steve Abrams" <sapuppets-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: [Puptcrit] 100 Years


Best Wishes to all for 2009

Steve

One hundred years

In the year just passing French puppeteer Yve Joly turned 100

and Osmond Molarsky turned 99



George Pal 1908-1980

Born in Hungary, invented the puppetoon when he came to Hollywood



Michael O'Rourke 1908-1981

Recently celebrated in Santa Monica, along with his partner Walton



Fran Allison 1908-1989

Friend of Kukla and Ollie



Mel Blanc 1908-1989

The greatest voice actor



Archie Elliot 1908-1990

Served 2 terms as PofA Pres, and he really knew how to run a puppet festival



Emma Louise Warfield 1908-1991

Her donation created the PofA scholarship fund,



Blanche Harding 1908 2004

Montana puppeteer



Rena Prim 1908-2007

PofA membership before Olga Stevens



Yves Joly 1908-

French puppet artist inspired Burr Tillstrom to do hand ballets

Celebrated his 100th birthday



Herb Scheffel 1909-1962

Finger puppeteer, master watercolorist, puppet journalist, and President of
PofA in 1945



Marie Samanisky 1909-1980

Minnesota puppeteer who ran the Puppetry Store in the 1970s



Ben Yano 1909-1984

Worked with Yosl Cutler & Zuni Maude as part of Yiddish puppet theatre in
early 1930s



Jan Bussell 1909-1985

Major force in English puppetry world, created Muffin the Mule, author of
many book, international UNIMA president



Mike Manteo 1909-1989

Sicilian-American puppeteer in NYC



Jean Starr Wiskell 1909-1990

PofA President 1948 from Louisana, consultant to Junior League women



Victor Charles 1909-1991

Night club puppeteer, retired to Florida



Robert Desarthis 1909-1993

Guignol in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris from 1933 on



Francois Martin 1909-1995

Puppet theatre in Carmel CA



Ruth Gilpin 1909-1999

Atlanta TV puppeteer, lead groups of puppeteers on trips to international
festivals



R Bruce Inverarity 1909-1999

Seattle puppeteer, expert on Northwest Native American carving, author of  "A
Manual of Puppetry" 1936



Hans Schmidt 1909-1999

Chicago puppeteer



Lee Tien Liu 1909-1998

Puppeteer from Taiwan, subject of film "Puppet Master" 1989



Osmond Molarsky 1909-

Celebrated his 99th birthday in Nov 2008. Listed in 1930 Puppetry Yearbook.
At Swarthmore College hired future best selling author James Michener
(1907-1997)
to help with his shows
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