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Ventriloquism Explained; And Juggler's Tricks, or Legerdemain Exposed: With Remarks on Vulgar Superstitions - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...to be iu a room above. He gave the cry of a watchman gradually approaching, and when the cry reached the window, Fity James opened it, and asked what time it was, and received an answer while the window was open. When the watchman proceeded with his cry, Fity James shut the window, and as he did so, the sound became weaker, and at last inaudible. He spoke with various voices, sometimes with six, which he could adopt and vary at will, and with so much rapidity, that he gave a democratic debate, long, confused, and impassioned, in a small closet, parted off, in the room. It seemed to proceed from a multitude of speakers, and an inaccurate observer might have thought that several talked at once. He also pretended to draw a toothe, behind a screen, from the jaw of a country Esquire. The old man fretted and feared, and the instrument slipped, amid groans and execrations, while the whole company, represented to the ear as behind the screen, were heard alternately sympathizing and laughing. M. Alexandra excited great interest in Europe within a few years, by his astonishing powers of voice, as well as by his success in representations. By means of dresses, curiously devised, he could pass behind a screen and appear on the other side to be an entirely different person. At one moment he was tall, thin, and melancholy, and at the next, after passing behind his screen, he appeared a very Fallstaff in obesity and hilarity. He could readil) imitate a mob, with its infinite variety of noise and vociferation. He could represent a drama, by his voice, behind a curtain. Another ventriloquist of France was visited by a commitee of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, in company with several persons of the highest rank. The real object of their visit was...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230426736
- ISBN 13 9781230426730
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages26
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