Word: ventriloquists
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...everyone knows, there are really five Marx brothers. They are descended from a Hanoverian magician and ventriloquist named Lafe Schoenberg, who toured Germany for 50 years, carrying his scenery, tricks, wife & three children in a roofed wagon. Mrs. Schoenberg played the harp between Lafe Schoenberg's tricks. In 1860, the Schoenbergs emigrated to the U. S. Lafe Schoenberg died in Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name...
...play the first kind gives a gathering dramatic effect, the other two are nuisances. These are recorded on the sound track by a double exposure process, the characters meanwhile standing immobile and expressionless facing each other. This gives a recurrent trance effect as though an offstage ventriloquist were at work. Selfconscious, Director Robert Z. Leonard hurried the soliloquies, giving them a furtive quality. The Hollywood audience giggled...
Your circulation and display departments should appreciate the makeup of Miscellany in the issue of May 23, when that department included news of the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis-the only "twin cities" located in the same state. (St. Paul: ventriloquist arrested using his "dummies" in attempt to collect wages. Minneapolis: auto crash victim claims to be left with inferiority complex...
...Paul, because he was unable to collect a $15 judgment from David Gilman, theatre manager, Kenneth Spencer, ventriloquist, marched across the street from the theatre, made his dummies engage in a dialog anent the integrity of Manager Gilman. Chirped Dummy Spencer : "Say, Gilman, when are you going...
...Ventriloquist Spencer was told to move...