Replies to post #46879 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[thepennyking]

Puppets and Puppetry. Beaumont, Cyril.
The Studio Publications. New York, 1958.

The Puppet To-Day
Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring
The Tony Sarg Marionette Book
Helen Joseph's A Book of Marionettes
Bufano's How to be a Puppet Showman

Paul McPharlin of Detroit produces an annual publication Puppetry
making it's first appearance in 1930, and also participated in the formation in 1937 of the society called The Puppeteers of America

Among representative American puppeteers may be mentioned the following stellar characters:

Marjorie Batchelder,
Gustave Baumann,
Bill Baird,
Remo Bufano,
Ralph Chesse',
Donald Cordry,
Weaver and Kathryn Dallas,
Perry Dilley,
William Duncan,
Sue Hastings,
R. Bruce Inverarity,
Helen Joseph,
Otto Kunze,
Edward Mabley,
Jerome Magon,
Harold and Roy Patton,
Paul McPharlin,
Basil Milovsoroff,
Elena Mitcoff,
Nicholas Nelson,
Bernard Paul,
Romain Proctor,
Rufus Rose,
Tony Sarg,
Martin and Olga Stevens,
and
Donald B. Vestal.

In Belgium,
Carlo Speder.


At Verviers there is a curious Betie'me or Bethlehem, which consists of a series of tableaux composed of puppets and appropriate setting arranged in small glazed cases, which are place on trestles and covered with cloths. The spectators are guided past the cases by an old woman who, as each covering is drawn, explains the incident shown.

In Czechoslovakia, puppetry is not only a highly popular entertainment, but also a well-organised educational force, as may be gathered from the fact that the republic can must over 2,000 puppet theatres; it is true, however, that these are mainly amateur.

Their traditions are three centuries old. At first there were travelling puppeteers who journeyed from village to village, bringing entertainment to country folk, and acquainting them with adaptations of stage plays by native and foreign authors; this led to the puppet theatre.

Joseph Skupa (1892-1957), with his puppet clown, Kasparel, a kind of Czech Punch, attracted attention by satirical comments on the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, then dominating the country After the First World War, Skupa founded the first professional theatre in the Czechoslovak Republic; he also created two puppets, later famous throughout Europe: Spejbl, a dull-witted father, and Hurvinek, his precocious and cheeky son.

Human puppeteering is currently being practiced by all governments existing today on our planet. It is time to cut their strings.



Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century




30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century

When the 80 missing Nukes from the old USSR secular states turn up in the hands of terrorists who seek revenge against the British, Americans, Isreali's and their supporters, it will leave the Hemoclysm at the doorstep of the Bush/Blair/Sharon Administrations.

"It's very possible, therefore, that future historians will consider these events to be mere episodes of a single massive upheaval -- the "Hemoclysm", to give it a name (Greek for "blood flood") -- which took the lives of some 155 million people. All in all, over 80% of the deaths caused by Twentieth Century atrocities occurred in the Hemoclysm."

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-list.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatx.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm

History tends to repeat itself. Be prepared, for the worst is yet to come!

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Yikes, I posted regarding this 'informative' report yesterday. Can anyone point out any substantive new information in this report? This is conjecture as evidenced by the use of so many conditional words, may, could, appear, etc.

Even the estimate of the number of global terrorists belies the headlines. The estimate of 18,000 is derived from an estimate of 20,000 trained in Afghanistan BEFORE we routed the Taliban, less 2,000 killed or wounded. In addition, I suppose some could have retired, found other careers, were born again, etc. But the report says the numbers swelled as a result of our war in Iraq, but gives no information supporting that. It doesn't seem unreasonable to conjecture such happening, but they offer nothing to support such conjecture. Actually, they should have said Al Qaeda may have way more than 18,000 trained terrorists, or les than that number, we're not real sure. Quite a think tank!