How to Build a Ventriloquist Dummy - A Step by Step Guide for the Home Carpenter
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How to Build a Ventriloquist Dummy - A Step by Step Guide for the Home Carpenter - Anon Anon
How to
Build a Dummy
You can’t spend all your time sitting in front of the mirror practicing voice and lip control. When you’re not, you can be putting thought and work into this little partner of yours who will one day be the mainstay of your ventriloquist act.
You see, you yourself are only half the act. Having the voice and nothing more doesn’t make you a ventriloquist, as you know him today. If you remember I explained earlier that ventriloquism is only an illusion; that it’s the art of using our keen sense of sight to deceive our often inaccurate sense of hearing. To do that we must have the voice of the ventriloquist (which is heard by our ears) and the moving dummy or object (which is seen by our eyes). You can’t have ventriloquism with only the voice or only the object. You must have both to complete the illusion we call ventriloquism.
In other words, when you have obtained the voice, you still need the other half. You need the lips, other than your own, which will move at the same time with the words you create ventriloquially. In short, you now need a dummy. Where do you get one? Well, you could go out and buy a dummy in a toy or department store or a magic shop. You might even find an old one in a pawn shop or secondhand store. Either way, you’d have a dummy you could use. But it might be more fun, and less expensive, for you to build your own. Not only that, but if you make it yourself, it can be whatever kind of a dummy you’d like. It can be a boy or a girl. It can have a turned up nose or a lump on the head. It can be curly and blonde or have a red headed crew cut. Whereas, the dummy you buy will have to remain pretty much as it was when you got it. Furthermore, I believe that if you build your own dummy you’ll have a greater feeling of pride and accomplishment. And I’m sure you’ll also have a certain unexplainable attachment and kinship with the dummy because you created it. It’s part of you, your imagination and your talents.
There is one exception to what I have just said. That was a dummy I once tried to build in Cleveland. I was touring with the Major Bowes Amateurs at the time. One night at the theatre somebody in the troupe who was hanging around my dressing room said to me, Winchell, you’ve only got one dummy. What would you do if something happened to him? Suppose he got lost or stolen, or suppose there was a fire? You’d be out of luck!
For some reason I had never thought about this, but from that moment on I did. I kept thinking about it until finally I got scared. The fellow was right. If anything did happen to Jerry I couldn’t go on . . . I’d have no act . . . I’d be out of a job. So I decided right after the matinee I’d go back to the hotel and make another dummy of Jerry.
I left the theatre and went straight to the nearest hardware store and bought all the supplies I needed, and headed for the hotel. In those days the Bowes Amateur Units were so famous and popular wherever they went, that they were always asked to stay at the swankiest hotel at a very low rate. Cleveland was no exception. I had a beautiful corner room with a tile bath which contained a big comfortable bathtub.
I walked into the plush lobby, loaded down with my bags of plaster, clay, paint, brushes, and a few assorted pots and pans. I looked like I had at least come to remodel the place if not, in fact, to tear it down. People stared at me as I rode the elevator up to my room. Then the fun began!
You see, my idea was this. With the clay I’d sculpture a head to look like Jerry’s and then cover it with plaster. What the plaster hardened I’d take it off the clay and have a hard shell of Jerry’s head. I’d put papier mâché into the shell and, when it in turn hardened, I’d knock off the plaster shell and have a new second head of Jerry.
So, I started. I sculptured a pretty good likeness of Jerry’s head out of