From: patriot-AT-mip.net
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:07:51 -0200
Subject: Re: Turnabout Video


Luman, isn't "Small Wonder" a reprint/expansion of the original "Punch's
Progress" that he wrote back in the lat 30's, early 40's ?  

At 01:41 PM 12/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>"Turnabout" produced by Shire Films is (or was) available from
>Filmakers Library
>124 E 40th Street
>New York, NY  10016
>Tel: 212-8008-4980
>Fax: 212-808-4983
>
>A copy is in the 
>P.of A. Audio/Visual Library
>30207 - 27th Ave. S.
>Federal Way, WA  98003-4212
>
>The book, Small Wonder by Forman Brown, is available from 
>The Puppetry Store
>1525 - 24th S.E.
>Auburn, WA  98002-7837
>
>Stock No: POA 094m 262p. $12.50
>
>Forman also published several Turnabout marionette scripts in a long
>out-of-print book. (For those unfamiliar, the Turnabout Theatre featured a
>marionette stage at one end and a live stage at the other. The seats were
>salvaged from old street cars. During the intermission following the
>marionette performance, the seatbacks were flipped for the audience to watch
>the live review at the other end. Performers included Elsa Lanchester, Lotte
>Goslar, Harry Burnett, Frances Osborne, Odetta, Dorothy Neumann and others.
>Forman wrote the scripts and music, accompanied  the live review on the
>piano, as was one of the marionette perfomers. The shows were reportedly
>witty and timely. (I was, unfortunately, not able to see a performance even
>when they moved to San Francisco after closing in Los Angeles after so many
>years.)
>
>Luman
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David M. Adams
Frederick, Maryland



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