Tribute to Frank Marshall: America's Geppetto

by Don Satalic

Overview

From vaudeville through the advent of television and beyond, America loved puppets and puppeteers. Such memorable characters as Charlie McCarthy, Jerry Mahoney, Danny O'Day, Farfel the Dog, and countless others, gave joy and laughter through good times and bad. No one created more of these "dummies" than Frank Marshall, an early victim of polio who overcame his disability through the art of carving. This essay offers Frank Marshall's biography and includes Marshall's own 1931 catalog of puppets, seldom seen by the public, providing a unique insight into this artist and his unparalleled work.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155191988
Publisher:	Don Satalic
Publication date:	05/05/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

I'm from Chicago. I love its people and its inspiring, flamboyant, and often violent history. Sandburg called it "City of the Big Shoulders," a working man's town. Nelson Algren wrote: "It's always been an artist's town and it's always been a torpedo's town...." My stories take place in this Windy City. The latest is THE DUMMY CASE, the next Joe Ganzer mystery due out in mid-May 2018. My previous novel RETURN OF THE FALCON is a 1946 mystery/thriller roller coaster that takes the reader from Chicago to London and ends dramatically in Montréal. In non-fiction, I had great fun writing THE MASQUE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE about the identity of the Bard and came to a startling conclusion. I'm currently working on a prequel to RETURN OF THE FALCON, which follows Joe Ganzer in his exploits during World War II as an OSS Intelligence Agent.