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I listed a Great Frank Marshall Tommy Knots on the Ventriloquist Marketplace and I have had a lot of folks email me and ask me how much I want for him instead of making me offers.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t have offers. Just none that were close enough to make me say uncle. So because of all the requests for a price it has a price listed now. So if you have always wanted an original Frank Marshall now is your chance.
Once again our good friend and regular contributor Bob Abdou has sent in some helpful information to share with you.
Whenever I am either performing or watching a ventriloquist perform, I am always focused on position of either the dummy or the performer, including myself. That is where my attention goes the first few minutes of an act.
One common distraction I always see is the arms of the puppet/dummy. If the dummy has short arms and is sitting on a performing table, the fingers touch the table causing the arm to bend in an unnatural way and that can cause an unnatural position. A few months ago, I performed with a new dummy at a show and that is what happened to me. This new dummy had short arms and it kept going in a weird position all during the act, I did not like that so I did something about it. The following is a description of fixing a short arm of a dummy/puppet.
Here’s a video showing a very nice Mack figure. This cute fellow is a prime example of the style that Frank Marshall would follow when creating his figures.
The past two Sundays we posted videos of Terri Rogers performing with her pal Shorty Harris. Terri was a big star back in the 1960’s and 70’s in England and was a man playing a woman but eventually did undergo surgery to become a woman. Her figure Shorty Harris is an Insull female cheeky figure. I found this to be great. Think about this. Male ventriloquist dressed as a female talking with female voice. Female figure dressed as a boy speaking with a male voice. Man the innuendo was outrageous.
This happens to be Terri’s back up head of Shorty Harris and he’s now in the Ventriloquist Central Collection. Terri used his mouth and raising eyebrows and did not use much else as movements although the figure had more functions. In fact except for not having the wiggling ears Shorty is a loaded figure with lower lip, upper lip, side moving self centering eyes, winkers, blinkers and raising eyebrows.
Our good friend Andy Gross sent in these photos to share with us. He was doing a gig in Hopkinsville, KY, and went into a museum there to find a shrine to the late Col. Bill Boley.
The figure that you see is not a Bill Boley but is in fact a Finis Robinson. I am not sure if the museum has the figure labeled as being made by Bill but it was not.
