Word: ventriloquistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accompanying the trip as specialty attractions will be Robert Reinhart '29, prestidigitator, K. A. Perry '28, a talented ventriloquist, and A. W. Lind '29, violinist...
...invited to Rackham, with the idea of hornswoggling them into buying the place, gouty Lord Mere de Beaurivage and Lord Hamilcar Hellup, a retired U. S. millionaire. Lord Hellup's daughter, Bo, and her lover, John Maple, were also on the scene with nefarious plans. Being something of a ventriloquist and wearing spooky robes, John Maple makes Rackham seem haunted. Gouty Lord Beaurivage is carried out in a fit of fright. Hilda agrees to sell Rackham to John Maple at his price, falls into the arms of Lord Hellup crying: "Hannibal! ... I mean, Hamilcar!" O happy ending! O lack...
...Perry '28 with a ventriloquist act. C. E. Henderson '28 on the piano and the goofus, and A. W. Lend '29 on the violin, will be the individuals to perform tonight. A number by a string quartette and a song by a double quartette will complete the program...
...most enthusiastic audience of all was at Buffalo, N. Y. It broke into three numbers with applause, and demanded repeated encores. C. E. Henderson '28 at the piano, B. D. Hanighen '30 with his violin, and K. A. Perry '28 with his ventriloquist act scored especially...
...lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like a small-time ventriloquist with a dummy on his lap. Such blatancy, even though involuntary, was not ethical, and the U. S. profession damned...