Ventriloquism.- Rugby School. Mr Flemmington...Will Deliver a Recreative Lecture...The Mirror, or Mail Coach Adventures...Illustrations of Ventriloquism..., tiny hole not affecting text, horizonal crease affecting few words, slight toning, folds, 270 x 217mm., Rugby, Rowell and Sons, 27th September 1828 § Theatre Royal, Sadlers Wells...Mr. Love will introduce an entertainment...Love's Lentern Lucubrations!..., date in ink manuscript to head, some surface soiling and old folds, laid down on linen, playbill 505 x 250mm., S.G. Fairbrother, 31st March 1851, printed playbills; and another printed playbill featuring Frankell "The Great Ventriloquist and Magician", among other acts, v.s. (3)
⁂ The second mentioned playbill including a performance of "Three Characters at once!...although the above scene occupies nearly half an hour, and each of the characters concerned in it is furnished with a perfect voice, the natural tones of the Artist are not heard during the whole course of its delivery. This mode of executing a Ventriloquial Colloquy has hitherto been considered...conversant with the structure of the Vocal Organs".
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