Señor Wences
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Wenceslao Moreno Centeno, known professionally as Señor Wences, was a Spanish ventriloquist and comedian. His popularity grew with his frequent television appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show dur
Señor Wences in 1935 with an early version of "Johnny"
Señor Wences with another of his puppet characters, "Cecilia Chicken", in 1962
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
Señor Wences
…Wenceslao Moreno Centeno (April 17, 1896 – April 20, 1999), known professionally as Señor Wences (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish ventriloquist and comedian. His popularity grew with his frequent television appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show during the 1950s and 1960s. Later, he became…
Ventriloquist dummy in the shape of a young boy
Newspaper article on Gef, the talking mongoose, claiming it involved ventriloquism by Voirrey Irving
Ventriloquist/Author Valentine Vox with his puppet Jeorge
Sadler's Wells Theatre in the early 19th century, at a time when ventriloquist acts were becoming increasingly popular