Recently, an original long lost manuscript resurfaced having been discovered in an ancient bookshop in the back waters of the southern states.
Being A Ventriloquist Is Great Fun
Among civilized races ventriloquism has long since ceased to be anything except a source of entertainment, and for that purpose it has a legitimate mission. In this strenuous age of money getting, public amusements are necessary, as they afford welcome relief and relaxation from the constant hurly-burly of modern conditions. So long as the entertainer, whether he be an actor, a ventriloquist, a magician, a monologue comedian or what not, amuses his audience without corrupting them, so long is his mission a beneficent one and his place in the world of men as important in its way as that of him who devotes all his attention to more serious affairs.
Merely as a source of amusement, however, a practical knowledge of ventriloquism pays well for the time and effort spent in acquiring it in the amount of fun and glory one gels out of it, the relaxation it affords from the sterner duties of life, and the welcome pocket money which it brings to its successful exponent, which in a city, where one can be in touch with amusement agents, often amounts to considerable. Even though the ventriloquist has daily employment of a clerical or mechanical nature, there are always remunerative evening and holiday engagements to be obtained, especially if he is a little energetic in “drumming up trade” by keeping himself constantly in the minds of the agents, by sending out circulars and doing some advertising on his own account, and by watching the columns of the daily papers for announcements of future entertainments where outside talent might be wanted.