Mr. Rizek, aka “Lester Marshall”
We certainly get the comments every time we post a mystery ventriloquist and this past time was no exception.
Bob Isaacson , Les Lamborn and Joe Lopez all were correct with their guesses on this one. Mr Rizek was the performer and he renamed himself Lester Marshall taking both names from two of the greats of the time. The Great Lester and Frank Marshall.
Mr Rizek also had quite a collection of figures and even purchased figures from Frank Marshall and would resell them. He was also taught ventriloquism by Ray Conlin.
Previously I posted pictures of Ray Conlin and his Figure which was made by Marshall and now resides in the Ventriloquist Central Collection.
If you missed that posting click here see it.
Dan
www.ventriloquistcentral.com
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Dan Willinger is a ventriloquism enthusiast and ventriloquist figure collector. He has been collecting for over 25 years. He created the Ventriloquist Central Collection. It now has over 100 ventriloquist figures and over 50 of them are Frank Marshall figures. Because of his love for the art of ventriloquism, Mr. Willinger created the website Ventriloquist Central. For more information about the website, go to: http://www.ventriloquistcentral.com
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