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...Italy, the world's most pompous puppet show, an official radio broadcast warned that "to tremble in public is a crime against the community and the country...
Judy Splinters' substitute for an Edgar Bergen is a 16-year-old San Francisco girl, Shirley Faye Dinsdale, who, says the real Bergen, is "the best natural ventriloquist I ever saw." What impresses ventriloquists most is an unusual accomplishment-Shirley Dinsdale can actually make her puppet sing, in a clear, sweet soprano...
When Shirley and her mother went to Hollywood two months ago, the child ventriloquist had eight months of weekly radio behind her. A shy, quiet little girl, she used her brash puppet to say the things she could not bring herself to say. Eddie Cantor hired her ($100 weekly) the first time he heard...
...first big-league appearance Judy turned out to be a knowing, unmanageable gamin ("Shirley, watch my language!") who thought Eddie Cantor was a puppet ("Oh, he talks!") and distrusted his fiscal attitude ("Get the cash, get the cash!"). Says Cantor: "We're going to go on as though Charlie McCarthy didn't exist...
...lunging through rich paddy fields. But millions have grinned at other posters on the walls of disemboweled buildings, posters including that of the artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang...