File puptcrit/puptcrit.0901, message 474


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
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