Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:24:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: PUPT: correction...


The Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin has quite a
number of Turnabout items, including the original
typescript for _Punch's Progress_. They do NOT have
the Einstein puppet, but one of the libraries in
California (L.A. or San Diego) also has a number of
their items.

Carolyn

--- Dan Bessie <danbes-AT-volcano.net> wrote:
> Regarding Mark Levenson's posting.... Forman Brown's
> 1936 version of the
> book that eventually became "Small Wonder" is called
> "Punch's Progress,"
> not "Pilgrim's Progress."
> 
> When the Yale Puppeteers claimed that they were the
> first "adult"
> marionette theater in America, they were using
> adult, I believe, in the
> sense of being somewhat "risqu," as their shows
> often had lines with
> double meanings and spicy dialogue (and songs).
> 
> Also, Harry long ago created a marionette of Albert
> Einstein. Does
> anyone happen to know where this is today?
> 
> Dan Bessie (Harry's nephew, and Forman Brown's
> cousin thrice removed;
> and producer/director of the video documentary,
> TURNABOUT, the Story of
> the Yale Puppeteers.)
> 
> 
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