Word: ventriloquistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humorous insight evident in Mr. Henderson's "Piano Specialty", the rhythmic swing of the Mandolin Club's performance of the Strauss waltz, the excellent numbers furnished by the Gold Coast Orchestra, including the inimitably accurate German band, the unusually fine violin solos by W. Lind, the highly diverting ventriloquist dialogue by M. Perry, the virtuosity of Mr. Benfield upon the marimba xylophone, and Mr. Moynahan's fantastic dance. Against these high lights furnished by individuals, the Banjo Club, the Vocal Cub and the Mandolin Club provided a background of attractive numbers interpreted with unvarying skill. To the directors...
Features including a ventriloquist, a full ten-piece orchestra, piano specialies, and a vocal unit will be given...
...Unholy Three. It was President Wilson who used to read detective stories to ease his mind. He would have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...
...ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap, a girl...
Before the 31st annual convention of the American Laryngological, Rhinological & Stamatological Society in Atlantic City, a man stood making an address. His voice was loud, distinct, but his lips never opened. Language issued from his head as from that of a ventriloquist's dummy. For this man, one Charles Kendrick, had no larynx, no vocal cords. These had been removed in an operation for cancer of the throat, in their place put a silver tube which emerges from the throat of Mr. Kendrick and is held in place by a neat black ribbon which passes around his neck underneath...