Word: ventriloquistic
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...intense egocentricity, Hollywood's concern with show business is obviously prompted by the necessity for showing off personalities who have made a hit on other stages. Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this is enough to enrage...
...pragmatic Pennsylvanians had hardly reached their homes when the A. F. of L. chief produced some pertinent pragmatism of his own. Addressing himself to all A. F. of L. affiliates, President Green damned Labor's Non-Partisan League as a ventriloquist's dummy for John L. Lewis, urged withdrawal of every form of support for it and a reaffirmation of the Federation's traditional policy of non-partisan scrutiny of all candidates- particularly now those supported by Mr. Lewis. It appeared certain that, in rewarding its friends and punishing its enemies, A. F. of L. would regard...
Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...
...things can never be the same again. As Elissa Landi bitterly remarks: "At home Jean ties father's cravat, and in Parliament he tries to cut his throat." Jean's double job is too much for him: Count Mariassy does not mind being called "a political ventriloquist" in public, but he hates having his beer warm and his bath cold. Soon Count Mariassy's Conservatives are swept out; Jean is the coming man. At this point Elissa Landi's hatred of the upstart valet turns out not to be hatred after...
...Fascism with ... its official press, its ventriloquist stage, is a matter of concern to men whose work demands, as the basic condition of its existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...