Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:48:43 -0400
From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Pady Blackwood


I will miss Pady.  He was in the same league as George Latshaw in
regard to his puppet mastery and his humanity.  My fondest memory of
Pady goes back to the Cincinatti/Kentucky Festival where I had the
great priveledge of sitting next to him and Alan Cook who were talking
puppet history.  I asked his advise on bidding for the Baird head of
the Whistling Wizard marionette at the silent auction.  When I told
him I had bid $350 he cringed.  I didn't win the auction.  Later he
asked me in Boston if I had won the bid and he told me how after the
Big Baird auction stuff had gone for way more, that it would have been
a steal.  I lamented, but he suggested I buy a Baird drawing at the
puppetry store which was an affordable $40.  I bought it and it has
been a treasure.  He was a caring warm person and extraordinary
puppeteer.  So here's to Pady on that great marionette bridge in the
sky!

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM,  <Widerman-AT-aol.com> wrote:
> I am saddened to lose our kind friend and respected colleague, Pady.
>
> He is interviewed in the video of the auction of Baird puppets in 1987,
> saying how, as a child, he would go to the local furniture store to =A0see Bil
> and Cora Baird's TV show because his family did not own a =A0television. =A0You
> can also see several puppets as they are =A0manipulated by Pady during the
> auction. The auction was documented on tape =A0by Marshall Katzman.
>
> Another fine example of Pady's work can be seen on the video production of
> "Davy Jones' Locker," where he was the lead puppeteer. Both videos are
> rentable from the Puppeteers of America library.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 -Steven->
>
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