Subject: PUPT: Re: Brief bio of Olive Blackham
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:03:16 -0400


I've been watching the British Puppetry lists for more info, but I found the 
following in a local newspaper profile prepared last February on the 
occassion of her 103 birthday. Ms. Blackham was born on Jersey, had a rustic 
studio in the Cotswolds from which she produced marionettes, which she 
performed on pre-WWII BBC televison and toured. Some of these figures are on 
display in the Museum at Battersea, South London. In 1960 she published 
"Shadow Puppets", a handsome book which can still be found in various 
libraries.  It's no longer in print.  In retirement, she was living in 
Malvern Wells in Worchestershire, England.  Her younger brother who's 
approaching 100 lives nearby.  Maybe the British Model Theater Guild can 
tell us more.



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