Show it Buy Novi: -- a 1964 ADMIRAL!’ COLOR TV A WEEK with your $1100 present food for only budget ri H Only $35 down and 36 months to pay 1st pyvnt In Jan '64 Danish Modem Console Now Lowboy 24006 vail "SP-24- ” prods! 24-fcrafted horizontal chassis with fold pro dseo wiring Electronic color balancing Admiral-to- il COUPON TODAY MAIL RADIO 0FFERI FOR FREE TRANSISTOR Sullivan will devote hit entire Sunday show to Sergei Obratsov (left) the founder and artistic director of the Obratsov Russian Puppet Theater Puppet pictured here U Zoia Kabul jazz singer Ed Puppets 'Personate People by Richard O Martin NAME ADDRESS — — STATE CITY PHONE 255 W SO TODAY TEMPLE LAKI SALT 322-105- ' HE US and the USSR may be poles apart when it comes to politics but people laugh at the same things whether they live in Moab or Murmansk That's why for only the third time in 15 years Ed Sullivan has decided to devote Sunday’s program (Ch 5 6 pm) to a single act The celebrated Obratsov Russian Puppets will be onstage for a full hour presenting acts that range from a mass chorus of 50 singing puppets to an entertaining prodigy who plays a piano from her' perambulator d THE EMPHASIS of the will be on comedy pres-entatio- n and the acts Include a group of dancing and singing gypsies an opera singer a funny pair of lions tap dancers musicians ballerinas adagio dancers a batch of perky poodles and others The famed troup is currently appearing on Broadway where for the past eight weeks it has played to capacity audiences off-ke- y The show received ethuslastic reviews The appearance of the Obrat- sov puppets on the Ed Sullivan Show will mark the first time the whole troupe has been seen on American television Mr Obratsov and some of his puppets appeared on the Sullivan Show when it was telecast from Moscow as a part of Its trip to Russia under the US State Department’s cultural exchange program FOR THE PAST 30 years Mr' Obratsov has had his own puppet theater In Moscow It is one of the most famous and popular attractions in the Russian capital ranking in cultural value with the Bolshoi and Moiseyev companies Professional puppeteers consider the Obratsov troupe one of the finest in the world and come from the far comers of the world to witness its performances It might be said that Mr Obratsov is “the puppeteer’s puppeteer’ In his Moscow company there are more than 200 people includ- - The town' already got Its Christmas lights up Salt Lake City December h 1963 I see costume signers sculptors ing 40 actors 20 musicians demakers and others During the past 30 years the Obratsove company has given over 25000 performances In 300 cities in the USSR as well as major International centers such as London Rome Brussels and ' given with purchase— no obligation 7 CITY UTAH I "A Nationwide Shopping Service" Prague THIS TOUR is their first In America It was arranged through the State Department’s cultual exchange program and impresario Sol Hurok The history of puppeteering Is a rather fascinating subject since it antedates human actors by many thousands of years The ancestor’s of today's prima donnas were launched on their stage careers in about 534 BC when Thespis thought the Athenian Greek stage might be improved with the addition of human actors But puppets can be traced to man’s earliest civilizations in Rome Greece and India and It’s not unlikely that Sanskrit was one of the earliest languages of the “stage” PUPPETS found use in processions temples and in burial ceremonies and are reported to have awed their audiences with majestic movements In Greece and Rome poets and phlllsophers wrote plays of legend and satire for them In medieval times the word was coined It “marionette” literally means “Little Mary” and derives from the use of pup-pets to represent the Virgin In morality plays of the Middle Ages Puppets were also used in Japan China Java Africa Siam Burma Persian and Tur-- ! key and found particularly use in the Orient j widespread Puppets were also popular with America’s Indians prior to Columbus’ voyage and to the present remain one of the most theatrical forms ha j popular many countries J O Bring in your old rollers & have new shades put on them O Bring in your broken storm windows and — screens to be repaired O Bring in your Venetian Blinds & have them cleans and repaired Phone ’ 466-876- 4 BLIND & AWNING UTAH VENETIAN InwM Mala and Stata at 2330 Sooth 57 East Truman Are WINTER MONTHS SPECIAL SAVINGS ON GARAGES ROOM ADDITIONS BASEMENT FLOORS General Remodeling ntEC CSTIMATIS NO DOWN PAYMENT-- UP TO S TEARS TO PAT CALL DAILY AM SwHlay CB CM 11 AM " IDEAL BUILDERS SUPPLY 4165 SO MAIN AM 11 Use the Daily Want Ads 13 |