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Show W here Charlie McCarthy Was Horn I . , : : r ' . , iY- "T, . "t ' ' . : V -Y .- , . - , Y: j , ' 'v , , Y ' " : ! - ' ' . ' ' i " ' ' if. "" .. , "3 ' " :t ' " ' " : X i " ; - - 1 : 5 ' ..... , . I : , -N v.. : ......... :. ' -cn s- Dummies Live in PICTURE PARADE Charlie McCarthy. the sassy little dummy dum-my of the ether waves, may owe his articulation articula-tion to Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, but he owes his life to Frank Marshall of Chicago. That's a debt he owes in common with many others of his race, for Marshall is the only known manufacturer of these queer beings in America. Frank comes by his trade through Inheritance. Inherit-ance. Since 1830 his family has made dummies dum-mies for ventriloquists, including the famed Voxor Walter and "the Great" Lester. . a - j -X-' t-. . - .; : , : Y " I ' ' ' 1 . ;. .! ' - '""s. .. I X :- .i . ' ".-' I " i , ''-Vt r -y -m . - - rr ; K 1 - i i j . ! :M Y j 1 i ' ' ; 1 - - " ' . -w- - '. Y : - y:.. -y y ; ..Y,. Y: Here you see the "works" of a ventriloquist's ven-triloquist's dummy: Manipulating the cords causes the mouth and eyes to open and shut YY rr : ;YY Vj., ; - 1 , I kl , - -s " -'-x I' p,:V'v Y-' Y. Y ' Jff : Y r v yY A Yy . - v; '-; Frank Marshall often enjoys a friendly little "chat" with his children. He says they don't talk back, if they know what's good for them. Two of his marionettes can be seen here. also. Y Y r Y - x r Y;C v. Y v N v ' f Yt ; J Y v x 1 V Y,! I n s ... I v y, A:r j . . y- v" Above, Marshall is pictured with two of his favorite products, a sailor dummy and a Hindu marionette. marion-ette. At the right, he is seen carving carv-ing a head from a block of wood. ,4 . v I ' , Y I Y ' Y A'oi Even Ventriloquist Can "Throw" His Voice TP HE old idea that a ventriloquist can "throw" his voice, making it A come from a shoe box, from behind a chair across the room or from the basement stairway, is a hoax in the strictest sense of the word. To make it appear that his voice is emanating from some place other than his mouth, the performer needs a "prop," usually a dummy with movable lips and eyes. He produces sounds by taking a deep inhalation in-halation of breath and allowing it to escape slowly, the sounds of the voice being modified by the muscles .of the throat and palate. The illusion illu-sion that he is not speaking at all is heightened by immobility, achieved through practice, of the visible muscles concerned in speech, as well as by gestures and glances which suggest a false source of the sound. |