Victor

“The young ventriloquist uses one mechanical figure, featuring singing, and working in the telephone, smoking and drinking ‘bits.’ Victor has an excellent mastery of the voice. It needs an eagle eye to detect any lip movement when he’s singing. Victor walks through the audience singing ‘Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet,’ and gives the audience a chance to inspect his voice deception at close range. He carries the singing too far and could make a better impression by curtailing some of it. More comedy could be secured with the telephone as the voice imitation at the other end is capitially done. Victor shows a tendency to work listlessly, which detracts. He made a substantial hit at the Union Square.”

Variety 21:6 (01/14/1911)