Word: ventriloquistic
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...four-part semi-classical numbers. The Mandolin Club and the Banjo Clubs present suitable tunes, and with the Gold Coast Dance Orchestra, offer places for almost every kind of an instrument. The Specialty Division has included in the past few years tap dancers, magicians, quartets, an accordion duet, a ventriloquist, a juggler, and unicyclist, soloists, and other humorous stunts. This year there is a great need of new Specialty acts, and it is hoped that a number of things will be worked up before we start our concert reason...
...student magician, ventriloquist, tap dancer, and harmonica player are among the individual entertainers listed in a circular just prepared by the Entertainment Service. Other features include a marionette show, a group of lecturers and several concert and dance orchestras...
...Weber, onetime burlesque ventriloquist who introduced "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" in this season's Americana, finds himself thoroughly at home among paupers of an earlier period. He is Jonathan Peachum, director general of London's beggars, who finally persuades Sheriff Brown to hang his good friend Captain Macheath because the erring captain has won the heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna...
...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...
...bewildering moment it seemed as though a ventriloquist were taking part in the performance of Die Walküre given last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Soprano Frida Leider, singing Brünnhilde, had sunk limply to the ground, crushed by Wotan's wrathy reprimand. Feebly, brokenly she started remonstrating with him. Then her voice died away. Another soprano voice, shriller, more biting than Madame Leider's, came out from the wings, sang until Madame Leider, regaining her composure, stood up and finished the performance so capably that most of the audience thought their ears...