Word: ventriloquistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most unfortunate effect of the demand for musical interpolations is to be found in "The Great Gabbo" in which Erich von Stroheim is starred. Here was a striking and original dramatic idea about an arrogant ventriloquist who could only be human when talking through the mouth of his dummy and finally became so jealous of the little figure that he broke it and felt himself a murderer. Since the story belonged legitimately enough backstage there had to be a series of chorus numbers, with the result that the drama was entirely submerged. Most screen plots, of course, are not worth...
Smack! Whack! Twice on the face she slapped Critic Swaffer for referring in print to "her affected baby voice, [like] that of a ventriloquist's doll...
...Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly...
With the favor of critics in all cities included in their recent western trip, the program is considered capable of entertainment. In rearranging the presentation for the spring season, the clubs are including in the program, K. A. Perry 1L, well known ventriloquist, and a former president of the Dramatic Club...
...matters of selection. And the runner-up to Will Fyffe was the farce of Arthur and Morton Havel, who also took to the two-a-day when New York was unmoved by "Anything Your Heart Desires". There are tumblers, Arab being this week's nationality, and there is a ventriloquist seal that limitates a lamb, a horse and a bee. The seal also blows out Dunhill lighters, which proves that there's so much good in the worst of us it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest...