
Top billing goes to the one on the left.
On this date in 1938, the Dean of Speech at the esteemed Northwestern University awarded an honorary degree to Edgar Bergen’s wooden ventriloquist dummy. The details, and video of the actual ceremony:
Watching Bergen’s lip move, I now understand why his ventriloquism act was so successful on radio. Sheesh.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Published by Carol Brendler
Author of books for children | WINNIE FINN, WORM FARMER, illustrated by Ard Hoyt, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009 |
RADIO GIRL, Holiday House, 2013 | NOT VERY SCARY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014 | THE PICKWICKS' PICNIC, illustrated by Renee Kurilla, Clarion, 2017
View all posts by Carol Brendler
Yes, it was the perfect act for the radio!