Gerald Morice

As a young man Morice collected toy theatres and the printed play and pantomime sheets that went with them.

As a journalist he wrote weekly newspaper articles about the puppet theatre scene, British and European, in the Worlds Fair and in ‘The Stage’, under the name Charles Trentham, his middle names.

[4] At the end of the War Morice and George Speaight were contacted by a family who had found a collection of marionettes in a barn.

Speaight and Morice examined these and found them to be rare Victorian puppets thought to have been lost or destroyed years before.

[4] Morice sent regular parcels of such material to the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at Oxford, now incorporated in the Bodleian Library.