Word: ventriloquist
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When Charlie McCarthy takes the air on Sunday nights, speaking the slick impertinences of Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, the Chase and Sanborn Hour traditionally has the ear of perhaps a third of the nation, largest radio audience in the U. S. But Charlie appears only twice (a total of about 15 minutes) during the hour: the rest is usually orchestra music, songs by Contralto Dorothy Lamour and Baritone Donald Dickson, effervescences by guest stars and a master of ceremonies. Between Charlie's turns at the mike, the interest of his vast audience wavers. Many tune in on other programs, others...
...Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...
...rogue most beloved in the U. S. is a precocious, conceited, impertinent, fast-cracking ventriloquist's dummy named Charlie McCarthy. On Sunday nights from eight till nine EST, when the U. S. radio audience reaches its peak for the week, almost a third of the nation tunes in on the Chase and Sanborn Hour to hear Charlie make rude and clever remarks to important people...
...child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding stories. Appalled by the knowledge of so much other suffering in the world, Clancy momentarily damns the world as evil; then affirms that man, through the exercise of his will, can make the world good...
Into the 1938-39 edition of Who's Who in America went Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (stooge for Charlie McCarthy). Other newcomers: Fred Astaire, Margaret Mitchell, James Roosevelt, John Donald Budge...