This is not a pretty subject,now you can't say you weren't forewarned. This came about in my usual wandering way,what started it was looking in the mirror and thinking how the more I age the more my mouth looks like that of a ventriloquists dummy. Then I was trying to remember the famous ventriloquist and his dummy's name and all I could come up with was Edward G. Robinson and I was fairly certain that wasn't it. The duo I was thinking of was Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Edgar Bergen,the son of Swedish immigrants taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was 11. A few years later he commissioned a Chicago woodcarver Theodore Mack to make a likeness of an Irish newspaper boy he knew. They started their career in vaudeville,but their real success was on the radio,and how odd is that considering ventriloquism is a visual skill for the most part.
I would like to leave you with this thought today...If it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile,isn't frowning better exercise?
Also pictured,Mortimer Snerd.
Edgar Bergen,the son of Swedish immigrants taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was 11. A few years later he commissioned a Chicago woodcarver Theodore Mack to make a likeness of an Irish newspaper boy he knew. They started their career in vaudeville,but their real success was on the radio,and how odd is that considering ventriloquism is a visual skill for the most part.
I would like to leave you with this thought today...If it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile,isn't frowning better exercise?
Also pictured,Mortimer Snerd.
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