Table of Contents

1. Preface to Puppeteering 2. Here's How Types of Marionettes Choosing a Marionette Character Equipment and Materials Needed 3. Head Start Proportion and Size Portraying Facial Characteristics Doing the Modeling 4. The Papier-Mache Head Applying the Papier-Mache Painting the Head Removing the Clay Attachments on the Head 5. Plastic Wood: Its Uses and Technique Materials Needed Making the Head Mold Making the Plastic-Wood Shell Other Uses for Plastic Wood Making a Movable Mouth 6. The Body Beautiful Proportion and Size The Cloth-Bodied Puppet The Jointed Wooden Body Variations to Add Character Hands 7. Wigs--Of All Things Modeled Wigs Crepe-Hair Wigs Crepe-Paper Wigs Yarn Wigs Absorbent-Cotton Wigs Miscellaneous Wigs 8. The Well-Dressed Marionette Women's Clothes Men's Clothes Headgear Gloves Shoes Hose Accessories Miscellaneous suggestions Sources of Material 9. Everything under Control How to Make the Control Stringing the Marionette Extra Strings The Multiple Control Storing Marionettes 10. Let Me Tell You about My Operation What It Takes to Be an Operator How to Operate the Control Using the Puppet's Hands Walking the Puppet Sitting the Puppet Picking up Objects What Puppets Can and Can't Do 11. Easy Stages Planning the Theater The Proscenium The Stage Floor The Puppeteer's Bridge The Permanent Theater Stage Decorations Safety First 12. Light Magic Christmas Tree Lights Low-voltage Lights Spotlights House-Current Lights 13. Gay Gilded Scenes The Neutral Backdrop The Painted Backdrop Painting the Backdrop Making Painted Props Stage Smoke Underwater Scenes Transparent Gauze Panels 14. Apropos of Props How They Are Created Props from the Toy Counter Making Your Prop Authentic Things to Save The "Propeteers" Workshop Furniture Keeping Props to the Minimum 15. We Go into Production The Revue Planning the Complete Program Selecting a Play Recording the Program Instrumental Pieces "Lovelies" Original Sketches Portrait Puppets Celebrity Portraiture Adjustment to Audiences 16. "Beauty and the Beast" 17. Of Ancient Lineage Ancient Puppetry Oriental Puppetry 18. The Rest of the Story 19. About Mabel Beaton Index