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Hastings marionettes and other puppets. She was seen performing on television with her "Tapper Rabbit" marionette during the 1960s from a Fort Worth, Texas station and later in the 1970s from a Dallas, Texas television station portraying a grandmotherly storyteller with several fascinated children gathered around her rocking chair as she told them the story of "Town East Mall" as an advertisement for the then newly-opened shopping mall in nearby Mesquite, Texas. Linnea continued to perform with her beloved puppets until some years later, during the 1970s, when her declining health prevented her continuing. She did, however, continue to teach her puppetry art to a select few interested students from her Oak Cliff neighborhood home in Dallas, Texas for a few years.
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introduction to the exciting world of professional puppetry. I subsequently learned she had been storing the Sue
Hastings Marionettes collection in a warehouse on Ladybird Lane in Dallas,Texas, and that Linnea Linsley planned to present a puppetry workshop there that summer. I attended that workshop and will never forget the careful, warm and friendly manner with which Linnea, "Mrs. Linsley", handled each of the participants, giving them much appreciated consistent praise and admonition throughout the training. I will always respect and admire this woman of tremendous skill and experience and I will be forever grateful for her guidance, interest and influence in my development both as a puppeteer and a person. I will also always be grateful to Kathy Burks for our introduction.
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Hastings Marionettes collection from Linnea sometime during the middle 1970s. Linnea spent many hours tirelessly teaching Kathy and her children the wonderful art of the puppet, especially concentrating on construction, performance and maintenance of the quickly aging Hastings marionette collection.
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Florenz Ziegfeld's "Ziegfeld's Follies" of the 1920s and was, as they say in show business, a " real trouper". Even after husband Hal's death sometime during the 1960s,
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Included were puppet caricatures of many famous personalities of radio, stage, films and television. I've actually had the thrill of touching several of these celebrity marionettes. Included in the few I personally saw were marionette caricatures of such stars as actors/comedians Oliver Hardy and
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Kathy, with the tremendous help of her family and many friends formed Kathy Burks
Marionettes company. I met Kathy Burks in 1975 or 1976 backstage after one of her company's performances for the Dr. Pepper Circus at the Fair of Texas. This meeting with this warm and welcoming woman was to be my
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January 2019, Kathy's two
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