“Puppet Patchwork” — Jonathan Laurey Marionette Company souvenir brochure

Souvenir brochure for the Jonathan Laurey Marionette Company, titled “Puppet Patchwork”. It credits the photographs to Charles R. Beesley, Member I.B.P., and includes an informal portrait of Patchwork. The booklet describes the company’s design, making and costuming of its own puppets, and states that Patchwork is a silent character whose actions need no speech. Illustrated sections introduce Mrs Jarley from Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop, Patchwork and his dog Scrap, A Tribute to Russia featuring the Brothers Ivanov, Hello America! with Hyacinth and Gabriel, and the fairy-tale production Spellbound. The brochure also includes backstage and film photographs reproduced by courtesy of Wallace Productions, including images associated with Gaumont British Instructional Films Ltd.