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The act was nineteen minutes long on the full stage.
Tilford is a talented ventriloquist who smokes a cigar while performing. He sits his grotesque dummy on a table and uses a telephone. He does fast talk with his dummy while smoking and at one point travels into the audience. “Even under the spotlight there is no perceptible movement of the lips.”
He won substantial laughs from the audience with his comedic talk.
He has the best singing voice among vaudeville ventriloquists. He was a big hit.
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Variety 28:5 (04/10/1912)