Edgar Bergen: How to Become a Ventriloquism

Bergen, Edgar: How to Become a Ventriloquist
©1938 Charlie McCarthy, Inc., Grosset & Dunlap, NY
Hardcover, w/dj, 125 pages

© 2000 Dover Publications
Softcover, perfect-bound

Edgar Bergen: How to Become a Ventriloquist
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Edgar Bergen: How to Become a Ventriloquist
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Comments: Illustrated by Samuel Nisenion
From the Dover edition, "This Dover edition, first published in 2000, is an unabridged, republication of the work published in 1938 by Grosset & Dunlap, New York. The original illustrations, by Samuel Nisenson, have been retained."

Contents (Chapters from book ToC):

9 Introduction
19 I Near Ventriloquism
35 II The Doll Dummy
51 III Hand Puppets
61 IV Shadowgraphs and Cardboard Dummies
73 V Staging an Entertainment
101 VI Distant Venriloquism
115 VII Entertaining with Distant Ventriloquism


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