Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-12-02
TONY sARG TO PRESENT
MARIONETTE PROGRAM
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surpassable His puppet-theatre has
added to the Joy of living"
The diminutive artists of Tony
Sargs company are about two feet
in height, perfectly proportioned and
50 skifully jointed and perfectly
weighted that they are capable of
making virtually all the movements
of the human body.
Inspired by the living example of
their illustrious Godfather, they are
able with much practice, to be sure)
to juggle balls, ride prancing charg-
ers, play the piano, dance the min
uet, sing songs. gay and sad, wink
their eyes in flirting, and-make
love as only puppets can
RIP Van Winkle,' Washington
Iryings old American folk legend,
as presented by Tony Sarg's Marion
cites, undoubtedly achieves the pin
nacle of artistic and technical per
lection in the realm of miniature
drama
Mr.. Sarg has surpassed himself in
this, the most elaborate and wonder
full puppet production ever seen in
i'America.
The play is in seven scenes, each
teeming with that quaint and fascin-
ating atmosphere SO typical of our
early Dutch settlers
Before the hospitable doorstep of
the King George inn, where sits
smoking peacefully its fat landlord,
pass most of the 80 or more char
acters in the story: A sailor with
his parrot (who does real horn
pipe dance to a cOncertina accom-
paniment by the village schoolmast-
err, Rip Van Wrinkle, with his fat
grunting pig and dog, and the never
to-be-forgotten musicians and their
/ Christmas carols.
In the wood scene appear butter
flies, birds, rabbits, and other wild
creatures. Then on the dim horizon
appears the phantom ship of Hen
drick Hudson and his dwarfish
crew. And most marvellous of all
is the transformation scene in the
mysterious treasure cave, where
dance ghosts and COLLINS and skele-
tons and spooks.
From the moment the curtains
part to the gradual fading out of
the last happy picture on old Rips
strange return 20 years later, the
spectator is carried away by this fas-
cinating and Absorbing tale of the
Catskill mountains and it's weird in
habitants.
Seven highly trained puppeteers
are necessary to give any one per-
Torrance. The puppeteers manipu-
late the dolls, speak the lines. change
the scenery, work the up-to-date cleo
trio lighting equipment, and provide
the music on a quaint, small celesto-
phone, not unlike a spinet in sound .
Tony Sargs marionette production
OF Thackeray's satirical fairy tale,
THE Rose and the Ring" is prob
ably the quaintest as well as the most
elaborate entertainment of its kind
ever given, Thackeray's characters
modelled exactly after his own draw
ings, come to life on the little stage.
There is a roaring lion, a prancing
white charger, knight in armor, a
fairy group of royal personages. a
surly porter who is turned into a
door-knob, the ugly Countess Gruffa-
huff, who becomes beautiful before
ones eyes, and many other charac-
ters that have delighted hundreds of
! children between the ages of six and
go, who attended the performance
when it was given at the Punch and
judy theatre in New York.
The Press has greeted Tony Sarg's
revival of the lost art of puppet-plav
as a great event in the artistic world