• C. B. Nualart. El alma de las ruinas: Comedia dramtica en dos actos y en prosa (Episodios historicos de la Guerra de 1914). Teatro de los ninos. Barcelona: Seix & Barral, not before 1915.

Curatorial note:

Production of juvenile theaters, those iconic nineteenth-century toys, did not start in Spain until the 1860s. Seix & Barral’s famous Teatro de los ninos series included this timely kit and script about the war widow Germana, who tends wounded soldiers in Hermana Teresa’s facility. When Germans attack and the nun refuses to leave her patients, Germana saves the day. The example here has the most expensive M façade with pillars and molded architectural details, no distracting wires for operating the figures, and the capacity to create special effects with back-lit colored tissues. Manufacturer Seix & Barral won the Agrupacion de Fabricantes 3rd Toy Exposition’s award in 1917 for the toy with the best artistic qualities.

Collections:
Title:
  • El alma de las ruinas [kit] : Comedia dramática en dos actos y en prosa (Episodios históricos de la guerra de 1914) / C.B. Nualart.
Language:
  • Spanish; Castilian
Call number:
  • Toys / Box 5 152530
Extent:
  • [38] p. ; 22 cm. + [6] scenes (21 x 31 cm.), 10 cut-out figures
Format:
  • Visual material
Description:
  • Kit includes six scenes that depict a forest and ruins of various buildings; the ten figures include a German official, an Alcalde, a Cartero, Juan, Mr. Rouvier, Germana, Hermana Teresa, Luisa, General Villencau, and Ayudante
Publisher:
  • Barcelona : Seix & Barral Herms., [s.a.]
Subject:
  • Toy theaters—Spain—Specimens
  • Children's theater
  • Children's plays, Spanish
Created:
  • 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1900
Location:
  • Special Collections Toys / Box 5 152530
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/vt150p198
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Creator:
  • Nualart, C. B.
Author:
  • Nualart, C. B.
Contributor:
  • Editorial Seix Barral
Abstract:
  • C.B. Nualart's toy theater for El alma de las ruinas; the script details the story of Germana, anxiously waiting for news of her husband who is a soldier in the war. When she discovers he is dead, she decides to help Hermana Teresa care for the wounded soldiers. When the Germans attack, Hermana Teresa admirably refuses to leave the wounded; she is saved from the German attack by Germana, who has notified a general. They praise Hermana Teresa for her virtue and humility.
Range label:
  • Logical
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