Pictured left: After Hurricane Katrina, Jeff Kent set about the task of restoring the iconic Mr. They were made to strip you pulled a string and their dress came off,” he said. They had little light bulbs in their nipples. “Oscar had these beautiful showgirl puppets made of wood. Isentrout was a talented puppeteer who was performing risqué shows with his marionettes under the bill “Oscar and the Little Woodenheads.” Jeffrey Kent, who worked with Isentrout in the 1980s and served as his last apprentice, remembers the naughty puppets fondly. His search took him into the burlesque clubs of Bourbon Street where he found Edwin Harmon “Oscar” Isentrout, a German immigrant and former vaudevillian. Bingle’s origin story, he set out to bring his creation to life.
I guess he got to keep the prize money,” she laughed.Īfter Alline wrote a poem detailing Mr. Bingle.’ It rhymed with ‘jingle,’ and his initials were ‘M.B.,’ which were also the initials for Maison Blanche. Alline’s boss, Herbie Swartz, decided to hold a contest among store employees to name the little fellow. There was only one problem: he didn’t have a name. ”Īlline’s snow doll wore an ice-cream-cone hat, had two blue ornaments for eyes and holly leaves for wings, and carried a magic candy cane. “He made a prototype of fiberfill and chicken wire, and store workers fell in love with him. “He dreamed up this snowman Santa found,” his daughter Jerilyn Faulstich said. He was inspired to create a little snowman that would become synonymous with Christmas in New Orleans. When Emile Alline, the display manager for Maison Blanche, took a trip to Chicago in 1947, he saw a department-store mascot called Uncle Mistletoe in the window of a Marshall Field’s and thought, We need something like that in New Orleans. The water-ravaged Bingle is pictured below, while his restored persona sits on Kent’s lap above. Bingle), had to restore the marionette after it was nearly destroyed in the flood after Hurricane Katrina. Jeff Kent, the last apprentice of puppeteer “Oscar” Isentrout (the man who made the original Mr.
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