Alexandre Vattemare
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Nicolas Marie Alexandre Vattemare, also known under the stage name Monsieur Alexandre, was a French ventriloquist and philanthropist who created the first international system for the exchange of item
Photo of Alexandre Vattemare in The Public Library of the city of Boston: a history by Horace G. Wadlin, 1910, 1911
Ventriloquism
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Ventriloquism is the performance art of speaking or producing sounds so that the voice appears to come from a source other than the performer, most often a puppet or "dummy." Ventriloquists create the
Ventriloquist dummy in the shape of a young boy
Newspaper article on Gef, the talking mongoose, claiming it involved ventriloquism by Voirrey Irving
Sadler's Wells Theatre in the early 19th century, at a time when ventriloquist acts were becoming increasingly popular
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his best-known sidekick, Charlie McCarthy, in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)