Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:57:29 -0500
From: Steve Abrams <sapuppets-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Yale School of Drama - Harry Burnett


Speaking of Yale
George Latshaw went to Yale Drama School in the mid 1940s. Julie Harris was
there at the same time, If I remember the story correctly, George  and Julie
traveled down to NY together to go to auditions.

Alan
Happy Birthday. You are truly a national treasure

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> wrote:

> It was because Harry Burnett attended the Yale School of Drama,  and was
> performing marionettes  too, under the title "Students of Yale" that the
> company was soon shortened to "The Yale Puppeteers". The basic Yale
> Puppeteers group was Harry, Forman Brown & Roddy Burnett, to the end of
> their lives. Bob Bromley worked with them in the early 1930s on Olvera
> Street.
>
> Dorothy Neuman, a partner of Turnabout Theater (begun 1941) was another
> student at Yale Drama School, where she met Harry.
>
> I am pretty sure Meyer Levin did a marionette movie in Hollywood with
> Blanding Sloan, using Black marionette characters including an updated
> vrsion of "Rastus"..
>
>
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