Chris Hutchins Chris Hutchins Chris Hutchins is a British author, journalist and former public relations practitioner. Christopher Neville Hutchins is the younger of two sons and one daughter of Edward Victor Hutchins (d. 1944) and Kathleen Ness. He was educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School. In 1956, he began a fan club for ventriloquist Terry Hall and Lenny the Lion. Hutchins lost interest when he discovered Elvis Presley and girls. Hutchins then landed a job as a journalist on the "Mid Devon Times" on a salary of £2-a-week. In 1961, Hutchins joined the "NME" ("New Musical Express") but left the paper the
Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe celebratory dance piece that opens a program of puppet theater; "Yaoya Oshichi" 八百屋お七 or "Date Musume Koi no Higanoko" 伊達娘恋火子, the story of a young woman who must climb a fire tower and sacrifice herself on a snowy night to save her lover; "Hidakagawa Iriaizakura" 日高川入相花王, a scene both comic and exciting in which a young woman's raging jealously transforms her into a demon serpent; the "Lion Dance" or "shishimai" 獅子舞, a puppet version of the dance performed frequently at festivals throughout Japan; "The Dance of Ebisu" or "Ebisumai" 恵比寿舞, a comic piece featuring the traditional fisherman deity; and "Keisei