From: markl-AT-levenson.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:41:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: P & J


sorry, thought the last few posts made this clear but obviously they didn't.  
the swazzle is a small device that the puppeteer puts in his mouth and holds 
against the roof of said mouth with his tongue.  it functions like a kazoo and 
turns the puppeteer's voice into the kazoo-like sound that punch traditionally 
has, especially in england.  once upon a time, by the way, according to world 
authority George Speaight, the swazzle sound was associated with puppets 
generally and only later came to be associated with punch in particular. anyway, 
the puppeteer lowers the swazzle to do the other voice and then repositions it 
to do punch.

as i mentioned in another post, the swazzle renders punch difficult to 
understand (although not completely unintelligible).  in a kinder, gentler era, 
punch was a two-man (yes, man) show -- the puppeteer inside, and a "bottler" 
standing outside, talking to the puppets and moving the show along.  the bottler 
would largely repeat whatever punch said, so people would understand.  he acted 
sorta like Fran Allison with Kukla and Ollie (younger readers are directed to 
their history books).  the bottler also collected the take from the audience.  
and generally packed up, schlepped and set up the show for the puppeteer.  now 
there's a tradition worth re-instituting!


On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, "The Magic Of JACOB. K" <akocsis-AT-rogerswave.ca> wrote:
>Thanx, but what is a SWAZZLE? :-)
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>At 20:51 10/07/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>At 10:31 PM 7/10/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Steve, what is a PUNCH AND JUDY? And what is a SWAZZLE?
>>>
>>They are the classic hook nosed famous Husband and wife puppets from
>>England.  Mark Levinson is the P & J expert on board.  Ax
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