From: "Lindsey \"Z.\" Briggs" <z-AT-pbc-productions.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:00:36 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppeteers outlawed


http://books.google.com/books?id=Ar8EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Sheriff+Walter+Bates&source=bl&ots=y5ZvsalbpZ&sig=yWXmVono1kW15BwQ_ysnlwylBlM&hl=en&ei=o3apSvSYA5mqtgfk4uWXCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=Sheriff%20Walter%20Bates&f=false

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, <czechmarionettes-AT-aol.com> wrote:

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> "The Mysterious Stranger..,or the memoirs of Henry
> Moore Smith alias...." by Sheriff Walter Bates
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>  Hey, Ro,
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> Where can one find this book?  I know about a Czech puppeteer and
> ventriloquist, Franti=B9ek
> Betlach  who was also a bigamist and counterfeiter.  "Doing time in South
> Minnesota, Franti=B9ek and
> two other inmates escaped through air vents to the roof, using the classic
> means of torn bedsheets for ropes.  He
> eventually served his sentence in state prison, was released in 1903,
> straightened his life and moved West, to Marienthall, Kansas..."
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> Vit
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> P.S.: In
> 1894, Franti=B9ek Betlach apparently self-published an autobiography Cesk=FD
> Marionet=E1r a brichomluvec; jeho zivotopisné a cestopisné vzpom=EDnky.
> (Czech  Puppeteer
> and Ventriloquist; Reminiscences of his Life and Travels.) I've been trying
> to track this book for years with no luck.  SO if anybody out there knows
> about it, let me know.
> v
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> production and made it look effortless.  The cast gives charged, cohesive
> performances, and the staging is expert".
>             Anita Gates, the New York Times.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: puppetpro-AT-aol.com
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Sent: Thu, Sep 10, 2009 8:53 am
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppeteers outlawed
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> You would need to go to20some primary sources. In Connecticut, puppeteers
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> outlawed (along with other itinerant performers and salesmen) for a time
> after
> the Revolution. I wonder if arrests were made -- or did they just receive a
> ticket and fine? Anyway -- you could look up those records and find out.
> There's
> a wonderful book from the 1800's written by a sheriff who pursued an
> escaped
> prisoner who was a puppeteer. "The Mysterious Stranger..,or the memoirs of
> Henry
> Moore Smith alias...." by Sheriff Walter Bates.
> Rolande
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 5:13 pm
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] colonial times
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> Yes John, I'm afraid you are the one to do it.  We will supply moral
> support and a little bag of pretzels.
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> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Bell, John<john.bell-AT-uconn.edu> wrote:
> > D'oh!
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> > Dr. John T. Bell
> > Director
> > Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
> > University of Connecticut
> > 6 Bourn Place Unit 5212
> > Storrs, Connecticut  06269-5212
> > office: 860 486 0806
> > cell: 617 599 3250
> > www.bimp.uconn.edu
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> > To make a contribution to the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry,
> please
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> go to
> > https://secure.ga4.org/01/uconn_foundation_giving, and select "Ballard
> Puppetry Museum" from the "Purpose" list.  Thanks for your support!
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:
> puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Rogers
> > Sent: Wednesday, September
>  09, 2
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> > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
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> >>Clearly there is a need for a new comprehensive history of American
> puppet
> >>theater!  What could we do about this situation?
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> > John, that's a subject for your next book.
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> > Robert Rogers
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