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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 95 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 85 Then in exactly the same tone and pitch answer ; but, in order that the same voice may seem to proceed from the point indicated, the words must be formed at the back part of the roof of the mouth. To do this the lower jaw must be drawn back and held there, the mouth open, which woll, cruse il.c palate to be devated (in il 10 and the sound will be reflected in that cavity, and appear 1,0 come from the roof. Too much attention cannot be paid to the man- ner in which the breath is used in this voice. When speaking to the supposed person, expel the words with a deep, quick breath. When answering in the imitative manner, the breath must be held buck and exp. lled very slowoly, and the voice will come i? a subducd and muffled manner, little above a whisper, but so as to be well distinguished. To cause the supposed voice to come nearer by degrees, call loudly, and say, I want you down here,' or words to that effect. At the same time make a motion dounwar is with your hand Hold some conversation with the voice and cause it to say, I am coming," or, "Ilcre I am, each time indienting the descunt with the hand (scecramples). When the voice is supposed to approach nearer, the sound must alter, to denote the progress of the movement. Therefore let the voice at every suppcsed step, roll, as it were, by degrees, from thepharynx more into the cavily of the mouth, and at each supposed stcp, contracting the opening of the mouth, until the lips are drawn up as if you were whistling. By so doing the cavity of the mouth will be very much enlarged. This will cause the voice to be obscurid, and so "ppear to come nearer by de- grees. At the same time, care must be taken not to articulate the consonant sounds plainly, as that would cause the disarrangement of the lips and cavity ofthe mouth ; and in all imitation roicis the consonants must scarcely bc articulated at all, especially if the t'ent- riloquist facis the audience. For cxample ; suppose the imitative voice i3 made to say, "Mind what you are doing, you bad boy, it must be spoken as if it were written "ind 'ot you're doing, you 'ad whoy. " This kind of articulation may be practised by forming the words in the pharynx, and then sending thim out of the mouth by sudden expulsions of the breath clean from the lungs at every word. This is most useful in ventril- oquism, and to illustrate it we will take the man on the roof as an illustration. This is an cxample almost invariably successful, and is constantly used by skilled professors of the art As we have beforc repeatedly intimated, the cyes and attention of the audience must be directed to the supposed spot from whence the illusive voice is supposed to proceed. STUDENT: Arc you up there, Jcm? * It is TCRT rarely that a ventriloquist shoms a full face to his au- diener: it is only dine when he is at a great d:stance from them, and is pronouncing the labial sounds, in the manner given, for any movement of the jaws would holp to destroy the illusion. |