European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Oils saturday August 26, 1978 a Castle deep in the Forest is a whole world of fantasy the stars and stripes Page 19 the Puppe museum housed in a 1,000-year-old Castle holds children spellbound. By Merle Jacobsen stall writer hundreds of countries materials sizes and eras Are represented by the nearly 1,000 dolls in the Puppen Toeum doll museum run by two american Sisters in a millennium old Castle in Michel Stadt Germany on route Din the Middle of the Odenwald Forest. Lenea s. Adelhelm a Pompano Beach Fla. Attorney crates the museum each summer with her sister Doro f Christenbury. It is open from whitsunday the Sev i sunday after easter to nov. 1. The variety of materials from which the dolls Are is nearly As interesting As the dolls themselves or shells from 1870s England nuts dried apples a Money China bisque Metal bread dough Stone b and gourds make up some of the  Sisters who began their collection More than 50 years ago opened the museum in 1974.one reason for opening the museum in Germany was because Many of the were already there. Some of the dolls were bought _ on vacations in Europe and were left Here during its to Adelhelm s in Laws her husband August a a escape Engineer was born in Michel Stadt but moved Kibe . As a youth., Adelhelm said they display Only about half of their in bind collection. The other half is kept in the . She lid she would be open to a suggestion to open a doll Nahum in the states but has no plans to do  How she began collecting dolls she replied she does t recall consciously starting to collect them As Hobby. Some were passed on to her and Mother had some dolls that she had  after the museum opened some of the dolls were donated by other doll lovers. The largest doll in the museum is he size of a 6-year-old child. The Sisters also claim to have the world s smallest dolls from Central America. Visitors must look through a Microscope to see a Bride and Groom standing in a Box smaller than the Nail of a Man s Little  historical and fictional characters Are personified in the Sisters collection in the gallery from England Are King Henry Viii and his six wives Queen Victoria sir Francis Drake and Shakespeare from Spain is Conquistador Heman Cortes from the . Scarlett o Hara Abraham Lincoln and Shirley Temple Canada s Dionne quintuplets and Norway s Sonja Henie. Their oldest doll is of carved Stone from Egypt and dates from 1400  of dolls used by adults Are puppets mounted on wooden handles which were employed by court jesters to tickle the Royal ribs. In contrast a voodoo Skeleton doll is among the macabre items displayed. Besides its dolls the museum also exhibits doll houses carriages swings and other doll paraphernalia. Adelhelm said one of the first dolls in their collection was found by their father while she and Dorothy were is  _ come from All Over the world. The museum s dolls and doll  Sisters Adelhelm and Christenbury. Growing up on Long Island. He discovered it in a secret passageway in the remains of the Heinz Institute boys school founded in the Early 1800s" which their architect father was razing in Hempstead Long  interesting people is an added Benefit of operating the museum she said. Visitors often talk about their own hobbies while View ing her avocation people who have hobbies Are always very  the museum gets visits or inquiries from other doll fans who want information on their  said she and her sister operate the museum for the Joy it brings to them and their visitors. She said they charge Only enough to pay operating expenses admission is 2 Marks for adults about $1 and 1 Mark for children Revenue to help pay the rent also comes from Selling color postcards of some of the  with the dolls on display its visitors come from All parts of the Globe the guest log shows visitors from Brazil Australia Egypt and Japan As Well As Ameri cans and germans. The Puppe museum is open daily except mondays from 10 . To noon and from 2 to 5 . At the Hicks the following films Are new this week on the army and air Force Exchange system s european movie circuit coma pc at Boston memorial Hospital dying is the least of your worries comatose victims of a mad doctor s scheme Are kept out of sight hanging from wires for reasons known Only to a few. Based on the Best Selling novel of the same name. Stars Genevieve Bujold. Michael Douglas. Casey s Shadow pc Walter Matthau and Alexis Smith Star in this Story of family warmth and rivalry and big time horse racing. Casey s Shadow is the name of the powerful Quarter horse whose chances in the All american futurity become the main obsession of father and his three Motherless sons. The Chicken chronicles pc this tale of High school frolics in a Rich California suburb in 1969 focuses on the kids problems of Absentee parents drugs sexual liberation. Vietnam and Plain old growing up comedy and Young love keep the film moving along stars Steven Guttenberg de Launcr. Phil silvers. Reruns starting this week the White Buffalo pc and sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger go ratings a nth i cd in i pc Hon Ken stir to not m Wittum for Cut Mrtin r in Der uimindoniviinprfitm9tmdin. Jazz writer Joe Weisel is on vacation. His jazz talk column returns next week