The Yale Puppeteers Poster -- Puppetry "for the Adult New Yorker
- New York, New York: The Yale Puppeteers
New York, New York: The Yale Puppeteers. Near-fine.. Printed poster advertising performances by the Yale Puppeteers "for the Adult New Yorker", including "The Pie-Eyed Piper", "Uncle Tom's Hebb'n", and "Mister Noah". Features an illustration of Noah ushering animals onto his ark two-by-two. Broadside (11" by 6.5") printed on orange paper. Verso postmarked. The Yale Puppeteers was a partnership of the puppeteers Harry Burnett (1901-1993), Forman Brown (1901-1996), and Richard "Roddy" Brandon (1904-1985). They formed the group in the 1920s, and it lasted as a mainstay of adult puppet entertainment for several decades.
Uncle Tom's Hebb'n was as Forman Brown later described, "a burlesque in the vein of ‘My Man Friday' of that redoubtable American classic, ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin,'" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. With a cast of 40 puppets, it was one of the Yale Puppeteers more ambitious productions. The ruthless Simon Legree from the original novel was created in puppet form, and came to be Harry's personal favorite which he also regarded as his alter ego. In later years this was one puppet he refused to sell.
Uncle Tom's Hebb'n was as Forman Brown later described, "a burlesque in the vein of ‘My Man Friday' of that redoubtable American classic, ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin,'" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. With a cast of 40 puppets, it was one of the Yale Puppeteers more ambitious productions. The ruthless Simon Legree from the original novel was created in puppet form, and came to be Harry's personal favorite which he also regarded as his alter ego. In later years this was one puppet he refused to sell.