A good friend of mine, Dave Jeffries, sent me a copy of a book on ventriloquism which was written by his uncle Norm Little, one of the pre eminent ventriloquists in the early television days in New Zealand. Norm used a ventriloquist figure named Archie, a Len Insull figure, and added a monkey figure later on named Tiny to his act.
Norm was assisted by his wife Bev and they also did a magic act and Bev was put in a box and swords plunged through it and she was also used in the cutting a woman in half illusion.
Norm is in his late 70’s and works today in an upholstery shop but he and Archie still perform for children in the area where he lives in semi retirement.
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