Word: ventriloquists
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...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...
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...
...Piane duet by E. C. Henderson '28 and some member not yet chosen. (b)Ventriloquist Act by K. A. Perry...
...Smoker will be T. J. Campbell '12, Coach J. H. Dempsey '28, R. Keith Kane '22 and W. G. Saltonstall '28. A. H. O'Neil '28 will preside and introduce the speakers. Dr. A. W. Wright '17 will lead songs. By way of further entertainment, K. A. Perry '28, ventriloquist extraordinary, will mystify his classmates with examples of his art. An orchestra composed of Freshman talent will play...
...that although the bulk of the text continues to be formally prose, almost the entire spirit of the writing is poetical. The prose spirit scarcely appears except in the reviews, the editorial "Now That Mem is a Memory", and in the extended satire "Logic, or The Evangelical Ventriloquist", notwithstanding the maturity and power of prose narratives by Mr. Smart, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Finney. In the editorial on the closing of Memorial Hall, the voice of the Advocate joins the crowd, muttering revolt against the powers that control the university. After administering a sensible old fashioned antidote to the recent...