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Although Elizabeth was the center of the celebration, the Jubilee's festivities were not limited to her. Throughout the country Britons organized street parties, ox roasts, raffles, puppet shows and picnics. In London alone, there were 4,000 street parties. On Hammersmith's Daffodil Street, for example, the semidetached brick houses of this lower-middle-class neighborhood were decorated with portraits of the Queen and festooned with balloons and bunting. In the working class's East End, a banner proudly proclaimed JUBILEE STREET OK FOR LIZ, while in wealthy Kensington, a bobby-sporting two Union Jacks...
...York City, is a misfit in the modern world. . "If I had my way, the glamour of kings and queens would come back," he says wistfully. "Life today can be pretty dull. People should run around in period costumes." Last month the blond, bearded graduate created a still-life puppet show, with twelve porcelain-headed puppets in full Victorian dress, in a gallery of the main building at Pratt. Perkins changed the puppets' positions each day and used cards to explain what was happening in his mini-Forsyte Saga. Perkins would like to tour the country in a gypsy...
Most American leftists who know about the civil war revere the veterans of the International Brigades with feelings of awe similar to Orwell's. These men, whatever their motivations, defended a legitimate republication government against a puppet of Hitler and Mussolini when the government of the western democracies only sought to appease the fascists. The failure of appeasement and the resulting World War proved the foresight of the republican supporters. Steven Nelson,a veteran of the civil war who now lives in Truro, Mass., says history's vindication is the greatest reward for having fought...
Robart Moran's shadow puppet theater presents his "Through Cloud and Eclipse...," a "contemporary fairy tale." Puppeteer Moran, projectionist Donald Case, and pianist Joseph Kubera. Also Erik Satie's "Sports and Divertissements," for speaker and piano. Paine Hall, Music Building, 8 pm. Free...
...look strong when it gave Bunch the tempo, and he took a few deep breaths before he put the clarinet to his lips. But he followed the beat in and when he started to blow, forty years made no difference. Goodman played strong and jubilant, and moved like the puppet of some demon beat he swallowed in the '20s. The audience clapped and stomped in rhythm. The couple in the balcony finally lost their anxieties and joined...