What kind of a career could a ventriloquist have without a dummy to tell the jokes? Ask Senor Wences, who started out in Europe in the 1920s, came to America in 1934, went on television and became one ...
Senor Wences, 103, the master ventriloquist who delighted “Ed Sullivan Show” audiences by bantering in a comic Spanish accent with his puppet-in-a-box Pedro (“S’OK?” “S’awright!”) and his ...
JOHNNY and Pedro, the puppets Senor Wences immortalized for TV audiences a generation ago, are ageless. Yes? “Yes,” piped Johnny, looking for all the world like a bewigged hand with a lipsticked mouth ...
The Spanish born ventriloquist Senor Wences was one of the highest paid vaudeville acts in the world. Hugely popular with American tv audiences Wences was also a top nightclub favourite. Born ...