Wally Becomes a Member of Ventriloquist Central Collection

dan willinger and wally

Bill Smith a regular contributor to Ventriloquist Central today made a very generous donation to the Ventriloquist Central Collection.

He did a wonderful routine using his figure Wally who was a throw back to Senior Wences’ Johnny character.

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Dr Cookie Jensen Visits Ventriloquist Central

dr cookie jensen

Friday night it was my pleasure to have the company of Dr Cookie Jensen and her family to come over and see the Ventriloquist Central Collection.

Cookie has been an active ventriloquist for many years and is also a regular attendee at the Vent Haven ConVENTion. As matter of fact she was one the the first ventriloquist I had the pleasure of interviewing at the ConVENTion.

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Great Ventriloquist Figure Builders – McElroy Brothers

McElroys in the shop

Back in August of 2007, we did a blog featuring a story from Janice McElroy about George and Glenn McElroy. At that time she had posted this story on the McElroy group and gave us permission to use it on the Ventriloquist Central blog.

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Inside a Jerry Layne Ventriloquist Figure Head

you tube ventriloquist central inside head

Our friend Bill Smith purchased a very nice Jerry Layne ventriloquist figure from one of the sellers here on the Ventriloquist Marketplace . Today Bill Let me know that he had done a YouTube video showing the internals of his Layne figure.

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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in Literary Digest

charlie mccarthy in color

Last month we showed you this picture of Charlie McCarthy from Literary Digest magazine (if you missed the blog, click here).

Dave Miller was so intrigued with the blog that he found the actual Literary Digest magazine with the article about Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

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