Jewell’s Manikins
“The clown dance was really laughable because of the grotesqueness of the postures”
Arthur Prince
He comes on stage dressed as a British naval officer with a dummy dressed as a sailor. Prince is never more than 9 inches from his dummy. It is “wonderful ventriloquism, especially as it is impossible to see a muscle twitch on his face when he is speaking, except through a glass, wen the under side of his chin may be observed to move ever so slightly, and the cigar held in his mouth almost constantly to tremor”
A.O. Duncan
Ed F. Reynard
mechanical ventriloquist. “His manipulation of the figures, with the ensemble finale, gives a climax which takes the house.”
Dan J. Harrington
dummies are “positively shabby”
Trovollo
uses mechanial doll