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)
The Great Lester
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Harry Lester, best known by his stage name The Great Lester, was a Polish-American seminal vaudeville ventriloquist.
Young 1897 Harry E. Lester in Thanes The Egg.
