Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bubbling, then a fearful, husband. To Philip, his heir in Cornwall, it all seemed plain as day: Rachel and her sinister adviser Rainaldi had murdered Cousin Ambrose. Then Rachel came to Cornwall on a visit and, in no time, her cute tricks had Philip dancing attendance like a puppet. But when Philip began to get headaches and nearly died, the old questions returned. Was it brain sickness or poison? Why did Rainaldi show up? Why did Cousin Rachel allow Philip to think she would marry him, and then back out when he had signed over the estate? The scene...
...Chinese compounds, the anti-Reds manage to keep U.S., U.N. and Nationalist Chinese flags flying. At the entrance to Compound 86 there is a sign in Chinese characters: "Kill! Kill! Mao Tse-tung, the Russian puppet...
Grownups got Bastien and Bastienne, a one-act operetta composed when Mozart was twelve; a mime and dance based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; a playlet, Mozart Visits the Empress; and a ballet, The Dying Swan, featuring a puppet Pavlova to music by Saint...
Salzburg's Director Hermann Aicher, in the U.S. with his group for the first time, has been puppeteering Mozart and assorted fairy tales since 1926, when he took over the business from his father. Aicher, 48, his wife Elfriede, their daughters Frick, 23, and Gretl, 22, run the show with three assistants, design the puppets, costumes and sets for the 27-ft. stage. The dolls (adult size: 3-½ ft.) are more supple and lifelike than the popular U.S. or Howdy Doody brand; Cupid shoots arrows, musicians fiddle, puppet birds fly, angels flap their wings, flowers open, horses prance...
Calling themselves the TeeVee Co., Frederic & Phillips first tried a filmed puppet show imported from France. TV-men shook their heads, pronounced it "too sophisticated" for U.S. viewers. Then Frederic had another idea: inexpensive, five-minute films, each telling what he called "a complete O. Henry-type story." A typical one is Patsy, about a parish priest who suspects that one of his boys is a hold-up man because he suddenly begins to flash a lot of money. The climax and happy ending: the priest learns that the boy earned the money as a professional boxer, fighting under...