Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:18:38 -0500 From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Rememberig Names That is funny, Alan....my sis always says our family is so dysfunctional too, but what family isn't? Art reflects life. Mary H. On 1/28/09 10:49 PM, "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> wrote: > All theatre, books, art is about or by or for dysfunctional people. > > Did you ever see a play about functional people? THere would be no plot. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Taylor > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:56 PM > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Subject: [Puptcrit] Rememberig Names > > Thank you Alan for helping me remember. Your mind is more in tact than > mine, like Benjamin Button, (Is that his name?) You grow younger and I=B9m > growing older. I remember a funny story of Vera Leeper trying to get her cat > to eat. Vera, afraid the cat would starve, swabbed it=B9s mouth with Vaseline > and tried to force feed it. Then another time while visiting a South West > Indian reservations, with her paper doll puppet show, she let the cat out of > the car to go to the bathroom. It ran off and after looking for a long > while, in exasperation she drove to her next show, performed and returned for > the cat. There it was, sitting on the side of the road in the desert. She > picked it up and they happily drove off together. Ruth and Everett were > delightful additions to our puppet family. Thank you for reminding me of > their correct names. Every year Everett dressed as Santa Claus and helped > distribute the packages for the puppeteer=B9s gift exchange. I=B9m so glad you > could tell me more about the Crafts. That was close to sixty years ago, and > I was very young. I spelled their name Croft because that is how I > remembered it was pronounced when they were introduced on stage. Being ten > or eleven, more likely ten, It would have been impertinent for me to ask for > their first names. But I remember how kind Mr. Craft was to allow me to > handle his marionette and perform in a show. That was extremely kind and > trusting of a young kid that he had never seen before. And I never saw them > after that. It still is a long distance between Long Beach and San > Francisco. And as for the dysfunctional remark, I accept that too. > Puppeteers may seem dysfunctional by nature, probably more than other folk. > But then again, We as an entirety are probably more :=B2NORMAL=B2 than most other > dysfunctional folks. It must be that creative gene that flows in our veins > that allows us to perceive the wonderful world we live in and the one we can > create. Charles _______________________________________________ List address: > puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: > http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: > http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List > address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: > http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: > http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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