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France Companies: By 1940 there were about a dozen professional puppet companies in Czechoslovakia (besides hundreds of amateur companies housed in social-athletic Sokol clubs), 40 in Germany, about 10 in france companies, a dozen in England, and SO in the United States. In addition, there were companies in Japan, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, and Argentina, and many isolated single showmen, such as the Punch and Judy men of England. Amateur puppeteers in homes, schools, libraries, and clubs were numbered by the thousands.The U. S. public has chosen to meet a sizable part of its medical costs through voluntary or private insurance. A variety of organizations exist to serve these needs. Types of Insurers. Corporate insurers that pro-vide health insurance include stock companies (owned by stockholders), mutual companies (owned by members), hospital associations, and associations of physicians. The stock and mutual companies include both life and nonlife insurance companies. A few companies offer only health insurance, but most of .them sell other types of insurance as well.
In the latter half of the 19th century there were many large traveling puppet shows, giving full-length performances consisting of a musical fantasy in the style of an English pantomime, variety numbers, and a Negro minstrel show. They employed as many as a dozen puppeteers, most of whom followed puppetry as a family occupation. In the 1870's there were three rival English companies, all styling themselves the Royal Marionettes, competing with each other in the United States with similar programs of this type. On the other hand, puppet companies from the United States made round-the-world tours, their pantomime numbers being universally understood. Toward the end of the 19th century, large companies shrank, and their programs were condensed to fit into vaudeville as ten-minute acts. By 1915 very few such companies had survived. |
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