The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-15

Puppets
toBeH Here
Marionette Show viii Open
Little Theatre
Season.

HELEN HANNAH JOSEPH of
Il l. the Cleveland Puppet Theater,
who will present three of her we'll
known marionette performances on
next Saturday morning and after
noon, Sept. %, at the Playhouse,
Nineteenth and Alabama Sts., is
one of the leading professional pup
peteers in this country.
These performances compose the
opening bill Of the "Children's
Hour" series of special children's
plays which the Indianapolis Little
Theatre is to present throughout the
coming season.
The Helen Joseph Puppets main
tain a repertory of twelve plays for
their 192S-29 season, and perform
before adult and high school au-
diences, as frequently as before
young children.
For her Indianapolis appearance
the plays scheduled by the Little
Theatre are "Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves" which will be given at II
o'clock next Saturday morning;
"Snowwhite," which is the first of
the afternoon performances, at 2
o'clock, and "Pinnochio," which is
booked for o'clock.
Mrs. Joseph first became inter
ested in the artistry and beauty of
the puppet theater when touring
through Italy and France, about
fourteen years ago.
After her return she created a
marionete theater of her own in
Cleveland, and later wrote one of
the first books to be published on
puppetry, entitled "a Book of Mar
ionettes," which chronicles the his
tory of this ancient art which
f1ourished centuries ago in Egypt,
Greece, Rome, as well as in China,
Japan and Siam. Mrs. Joseph is
also the author of "Princesses," a
drama for marionettes, and "Ali
Bahia and Other Plays" a collection
Of plays for young children, as well
as for puppets. Mrs. Joseph has
translated some of Ivo Puhonny's
works on 1.-THE Physiognomy of
Puppets"
For All Children
Only plays which Mrs. Joseph,
herself, has adapted to the puppet
theater are included in her roper
tory so that the Joseph versions
of the wellknown fairy tales and
children's plays have become very
among the school children
OF Cleveland, more than 10000 of
whom come annually to the Cleve-
land Art Museum to see these pro-
auctions. THE Life and Death of
DR.. Pohannes Faust" taken from
an old German puppet show, is one
of Mrs. Joseph's outstanding adapt
ationS.
A decided revival of puppet-play,
whose true origin is buried in an
tiquity, is manifest throughout the
entire world today. In the United
States, schools and colleges are TAX
ing an interest in marionettes and
are producing plays with these tiny
manikins as the actors and ac-
tresses. But of more significance is
the fact that there are at least fif-
teen professional companies of
marionettes touring the country to-
day, which performances involve
producing and costumlng expenses
as elaborate as any Broadway COM
pany, and require many months of
rehearSals - eXacting and back
breaking"
Ticket Sale
Tickets for the Joseph puppet
plays are on sale at the Playhouse,
or may be secured from Mrs. A. M.
Gall-Sayles, general chairman of
the "Children's Hour" of the Little
Theater; Miss Mosamond Van
Camp, vice chairman, Mrs. Benson
j. Titus, director, or from Mrs. Ray
mond F. Mead and Mrs. George T.
Parry, advisory board.