From: Widerman-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 22:25:14 EDT
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Presidential Puppets/White House puppet shows


I believe it is page 229 - photo of Sue Hastings' marionettes,  with a 
caption on page 228 in Bil's "Art of the Puppet."
 
     -Steven->
 
 
In a message dated 5/11/2009 10:15:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
hobeyone-AT-gmail.com writes:

Pg  234

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Hobey Ford  <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> The Jimmie Carter marionette given  to me by the State Theater of NC
> when they needed storage space was  apparently done by Sue Hastings
> cousin Jessie Morrow.  It was the  puppet that when I gave to my friend
> Clyde who had performed puppets  for Amy Carter. It turned out to be
> (under a layer of plastic wood) ,  the female black Harlem Dancer on
> page 324 of Bil Baird's Art of the  Puppet, actually made by Sue
> Hastings.
>
>
> On Mon,  May 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>  
wrote:
>> The publicity factor from performing at the White House far  surpasses 
the publicity for performing free at a street fair. But after being  there 5 
times, how much added value accrues?
>>
>> Puppet  portraits of politicians is a related listing opportuity. 
Michael Cotter's  portrait of Jimmy Carter (with the body shaped like a peanut in 
the shell) was  featured in the 1980-1983 touring exhibit, "Puppets: Art & 
Entertainment"  which opened at the Corcoran Art Gallery in 1980 in 
Washington, DC along with  Steve Hansen's hand puppet Richard Nixon. Mollie 
Falkenstein created a George  & Martha Washington which was donated to the Munich 
collection after being  part of the Lytton Centers of Visual Art exhibits in 
Hollywood, Palo Alto and  Oakland in the 1960s. Rand Bohn's Richard Nixon 
became Farmer McGreagor in  "Peter Rabbit" (currenty on display at the 
International Puppetry Museum in  Pasadena CA).
>>
>> Nixon, I suspect, was a popular  President for puppet portraiting. 
George Buchanan used a marionette version of  Nixon in a tux, singing "I did it 
My Way" at a puppet fest in Berkely CA and  at San Francisco gay bars with 
hilarious effect. An added touch---his Nixon  sported dangly earrings and 
high-heeled shoes.
>>
>> The  Yale puppeteers did make FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt portrait 
marionettes in the  1930s. I have the FDR, but don't know the fate of the Eleanor 
figure, but to  fill the gap, have a Sue Hastings version of Eleanor.
>>
>>  Bil Baird had an FDR too.
>>
>> I have the feeling that the  ultimate list of presidential puppets would 
be very  lengthy.
>>
>> Alan Cook
>>
>>
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