Tony Sarg

…under the noted American puppeteer Tony Sarg. He traveled on the road giving puppet performances and in the mid-1930s began producing his own independent puppet shows. He married Cora Eisenberg, who had acted under the name of Cora Burlar, in 1937. In the following years, they made their own puppets,…

She later directed plays for Tony Sarg, who became the most important influence in American puppetry, with such large-scale marionette plays as Rip Van Winkle, The Rose and the Ring, and Alice in Wonderland. A small group, the Yale Puppeteers, created a theatre in Hollywood, the Turnabout Theatre, that combined…

Puppeteer Anthony (Tony) Sarg designed these central features of the parade as floating marionettes. They were initially made out of rubber, with the assistance of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The balloons were at first filled with air and held up with sticks, but later…