Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-06

seat him in the center Of ring around which
dozen persons we're stationed. each with q
bell in his hand he could not locate the ring
ing Of any particular bell by his sense OF hear
ing. Formerly carried around with me an
expensive apparatus by which the dude was
actually made to play the organ. Now utilize
this lack OF location in the sense of hearing By
placing an organette behind the scenes, which
Is played at the proper time in my act"
SOME WONDERS OF THE ART.
The scene opens with q dialogue between Mr.
Kennedy and the two gamins in the box. They
make known their presence and their uneom-
Portable positions and are promptly released.
While they are seated on the ventriloauist's
lap, facing each other, they engage in a spirited
conversation in which pete" objects to being
called ''nayger" and Joe is properly rebuked
for his insolence. Joe then calls him smoked
the scene. The mouth of the puppet is opened,
while Mr.. Kennedy's is apparently closed.
Soon after this the dog barks, and after re-
peatedly requesting it to stop Joe calls out,
Put the tarrier out" whereupon the Irish
man drops his paper and looking around ex-
claims:
Whats that hear about the tarrier?"
IL didn't mean him." exclaimed Joe, II
meant the other tarrier."
Another exhibition Of vocal delusion that
verges on the wonderful ia this: Joe recognizes
some one in the house, usually an actor or
some person we'll known to most of the au-
dience, and at Mr. Kennedys request he gives
an imitation OF the unfortunate victims voice.
mannerism and accent.
Still another trick that illustrates further
than any other how easily the ears may be de-
ceivcd is the singing of song by the dude,
whose back is turned to the audience. The
song is to an orchestral accompaniment and
the voice seems to come from the puppet in
the corner
The most difficult feat that Mr.. Kennedy
late tn he
water MILL Owing to the many repetitions of
the letter IN, which IL the hardest of all
letters to pronounce without closing the lips.
TINS verse Is regarded as the supreme test of
ventriloquism. The verse is rs follows:
Listen to the water mill all the livelong day.
How the FLASHING of the wheels the hours Away.
k kansr the water glidGs flowing on and still
And the proverb haunts my mind and like spell Is
The mill will never grind with the water that has
Mr.. Kennedy makes the sound "M' by what
might be likened to grunt which is made
from the abdomen. II you think this il easily
done practice it once or twice.
THE SECRET OF vENrRILooulsM
"Now," said Mr.. Kennedy when the per-
Torrance had ended, AZ will give you all can
that will help any one who wants to learn how
to become a ventriloquist. In the first place
the old idea that the voice can be thrown to a
certain point is by no means exploded
Every week or so some one whispers
to me, Throw your voice into that
mans ears and Brighten him. As I said
before ventriloquism is simply q vocal de-
fusion.
The first thing necessary to learn the trick
is to become good mimic. In learning this
l would advise boy to go as far away from
other people as possible, otherwise he rams
great chances OF making himself very un-
popular.
After he has learned to do this he can begin
with real yentriloquism. Try and sound all
the letters without moving the lips. This re-
quires much practice and patience.
Here Is the one secret in learning the art
1t is the one thing that most boys never think
OF and consequently fail in their tuition Always
initiate sounds as they fall upon your ears. Ii
you hear a man halloo in the distance repro
duce that sound so that when it comes from
your lips it is exactly like the distant sound
that struck your cars
Follow these rules and il you have the nat
ural gifts you can become a ventriloquist
II have been in the business SO many years
that my throat has changed its original FORM
My Adams apple is round instead Of pointed
and my vocal chords are greatly enlarged. Dr.
Titus, the noted throat physician, wanted to
make photograph Of the inside Of my throat
for scientific purposes. He says there is only
one throat of that sort in the country and that
l have got it,"
AS | was leaving the stage the chained bull
dog barked at my heels just around one of the
wings.
Come back here and see him; he won't hurt
you, said the ventriloquist.
"Of course he won't" interrupted the stage
hand. Don't you know that MIR. Kennedy is
the dos2"
And 1t was even so.
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