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Last week Oklahoma City heard more arm-waving, gut-busting grand opera than any other city outside Manhattan. The singing was tops: it was recorded (by Victor). The acting was well up to Metropolitan par: it was done by puppets. All week the Victor Puppet Opera Troupe played four-a-day in the auditorium of the John A. Brown store. On Saturday the puppets mugged their way through an extra performance of Carmen, to music broadcast from the Metropolitan...
...England. Even after the Italian style of declamatory singing was assimilated in the seventeenth century, opera remained a blood brother of the masque from which it had sprung, never getting past the stage of a masque with incidental music. Venus and Adonis is such a masque: an elaborate little puppet opera, composed in 1685 as an offering to James II by John Blow, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and Organist at Westminster Abbey. Most of us know of Blow only as the vague, unimportant creature who tutored Purcell. Actually he was an excellent composer with an individual...
...Japan, after several false starts, finally got around late in 1940 to recognizing the puppet Nanking government under former Chinese Premier...
...Nazi puppet-premier of Rumania...
...Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving shows along the road. Now Zell Ingram is a well-known sculptor. Karamu House also is proud of Elmer Brown...