Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the Nazis planned for the stubborn Serbs they did not disclose. But whether there would be a puppet state or a new province of the Reich, it was certain that Germany's hand would be heavy upon them because: 1) the Germans blame the Serbs for Yugoslav resistance; 2) Germany needs Serbia's copper and foodstuffs. They would probably not get much food from Serbia this year, thanks to war damage and the dislocation of agriculture which the German push has caused in all Balkan countries...
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...
...puppet operas run 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, cut to fit the occasion. The records are played on two turntables, are marked with oil crayon so that recitatives or whole arias can be cut out in an instant...
...Wolff's $25,000 worth of puppets, sets, furniture and props fill 27 trunks. His fee for a week's engagement: $1,500. So far the puppet opera has cleared enough to pay Mrs. Wolff's debts and mortgage...
...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...