From: "Warner Blake" <angelarms.works-AT-verizon.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Puppetry Critiscm
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:17:28 -0700


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Carl Harms also participated in the Vestal production mentioned below.  I had the pleasure of interviewing Carl for the documentary PUPPET FESTIVAL in 1999, when he told the wonderful story of performing the Stein piece at the Conference and afterwards, the audience was so confused that they asked the performers to do it again, and they did!

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  From: John Bell
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  Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 7:11 AM
  Subject: RE: PUPT: Puppetry Critiscm


  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

    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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Subject: RE: PUPT: Puppetry Critiscm

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

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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