Recently, an original long lost manuscript resurfaced having been discovered in an ancient bookshop in the back waters of the southern states.
Ventriloquism – Throwing Your Voice – The Drone – Part 2 – Jerry
Then again some wiseacre who thinks “he knows all about it” and discourses learnedly of the “double throat,” will walk confidently up to the performer and ask him to throw his voice to the back part of the room over the heads of the audience or to some other utterly impossible place. I have never yet heard of a ventriloquist being requested to throw his voice into the next county, but undoubtedly there are persons who think that he might do so if he wished, though just how it could be made to return to him from so long a distance they might be rather hard put to it to say. Apropos of this:
” Did you know,” asks Jerry, the Irish boy, in one of my dialogues, ” that I was down to a party the other night? “
Vent. ” No, were you? “
Jerry. ” Yes, and there was a ventrisquealer there.”
Vent. ” No, no, Jerry, you mean a ventriloquist, a man who throws his voice.”
Jerry. ” Yes, that’s it, but this feller threw his voice so far it didn’t get back again.”
Vent. “Is it possible?”
Jerry. ” I dunno, but he did it all th’ same.”
This is probably the attitude which would be taken by the knowing ones who, while they might not believe that the voice could be heard from such a distance, might still maintain that it could be sent there and allowed to go off according to schedule, even if no one heard