Word: puppeteered
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...spite of these blessings and the consolations of Christian Science as well, Amy May's happiness was incomplete, for she felt that Annabelle Lee should have a husband and she didn't know where to get him. Fortunately, Papa Jonas, who lived downstairs, was a puppet master and the difficulty was solved by the marriage of Annabelle Lee to Mr. Aristotle, the veteran clown-philosopher of Papa Jonas' puppet troupe. Alas, the marriage turned out unsuccessfully! Poor Mr. Aristotle, forlorn boaster that he was, discovered how much more difficult it is actually to kiss in secret than...
...Significance. The Puppet Master is that rare thing, a fantasy without a trace of professional whimsicality or sentimentalism-it has all the charm of Barrie at his best without one drop of glycerine in its composition. Humorous, beautiful, poignant with airy melancholy, this minute and perfect comedy of puppets and their masters is a complete and singular achievement in its mode. Our time has produced little fantasy, but this is of the best of it-and it will last. Gay and incredible as a dream in a fairytale, it has that reality about it which no laborious exactitude of realism...
...MARIONETTES?The Teatro dei Piccoli of Rome presenting an odd novelty. Said to be "the best since Hector was a puppet...
...Marionettes. The business of importing continental novelties goes on apace. The present product is from Rome and is known locally as the Teatro del Piccoli. It comes with much journalistic information that the puppet show is the native drama of the land and that the operators amass family traditions much like those of our own Drews and Barrymores...
While their operas, their comedies, their pantomimes are progressing on the tiny stage, voices behind the scenes suit words (in English) to the action of the drama. The sum of all their efforts is a trifle better than any puppet troupe exhibited latterly in this country...