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Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–97) was an important American puppeteer and authority on the puppet theater. Her two best known puppetry productions were Aristophanes' ''The Birds'' (1933) and Maeterlinck's ''The Death of Tintagiles'' (1937). She was the author of many books on puppetry, including ''The Puppet Theatre Handbook.'' She was the second honorary president of the Puppeteers of America. Her marriage to the puppeteer Paul McPharlin was in 1948, a few months before his death. Marjorie was also the creator of the hand-rod puppet which was a style Jim Henson took up for ''the muppets'' ==References== *Batchelder, Marjorie. ''A Marionette Production of The Birds by Aristophanes''. Masters thesis, The Ohio State University, 1934. *Batchelder, Marjorie. ''The Puppet Theatre Handbook''. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1947. *Batchelder, Marjorie. ''Rod Puppets and the Human Theatre''. Graduate School Monographs. Contributions in Fine Arts, No. 3. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 1947 *Howard, Ryan. ''Paul McPharlin and the Puppet Theater''. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006. *McPharlin, Paul. ''The Puppet Theatre in America: A History, with A List of Puppeteers 1524-1948''. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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