Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:11:21 -0400
From: John Bell <john_bell-AT-emerson.edu>
Subject: RE: PUPT: Puppetry Critiscm



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Don Vestal's production of Identity, or I am, because My Little Dog Knows 
Me was performed at the first American Puppetry Conference and Festival, in 
Detroit in the summer of 1936, organized by Paul McPharlin.  Burr Tillstrom 
(19 at the time) was one of the puppeteers.  The Puppeteers of America has 
published a reprint of the Conference program, which includes production 
information about the Stein/Vestal play as well as a very intriguing 
photograph of it.

The volume of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder 
includes several letters referring to the puppet play.

I'm glad Wayne Krefting figured out where the play is published!

john bell
great small works

At 10:13 PM 8/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>The name of the book I found the Stein works in is: "What are Masterpieces",
>New York, Pitman Pub. Corp, 1970
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>The puppet play is alternately titled: Identity, a poem.  The other work I
>referred to is: What are masterpieces and why are there so few of them.
>
>Wayne Krefting
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