BIRTHDAY BOOK
ADVENTURE WITH PUPPETS; by Evelyn Beard; Oxford University Press. English price, 5/-. F your thirteenth birthday is coming along and you happen to be in a fix for something different to do at your party, here is your answer. Mrs, Beard and her two daughters (thirteen and seven) put on their first puppet show in England during the war; they had seven puppets which they made and dressed themselves from odds and ends, and it took them a month to get ready -theatre built, scenery painted, stage properties devised, and script written and rehearsed. Mrs. Beard gives full explanations and descriptions and patterns most clear and amusing diagrams prepared by her daughters-for making everything from a puppet’s hair to a stage bucket and mop; she also gives hints about supplying the puppets with personalities: "Squoflini, a peroxide" blonde of flashy appearance, was supposed to be a retired operasinger trying to stage a come-back, and sang with a great deal of volume and an over-refined accent, ‘Cherry-rape,
cherry-rape! Ra-ape, Ay cra-ay!’"
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 16
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173BIRTHDAY BOOK New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 16
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