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There are three other characters each played much better than minor parts usually are.
The sketch tells a simple story of a hard- working German butcher who toiled faith- fully all his life. The Butchers' Union calls a strike. He finds himself penniless with a wife and daughter to provide for. When things are the darkest a wealthy brother graciously dies, leaving the butcher a quarter of a million.
There is no action to the piece whatever. The sketch simply serves to show to best ad- vantage the quiet, familiar German character with which Mr. Williams has for so manv years been associated.
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Variety 10:3 (10/19/1907)