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The act was ten minutes long on the full stage.
Rehlander performs in a white butcher’s cap and apron with his trained pigs. Rehlander enters the stage on roller skates, pulled by a pig. The routine includes pulling a wheelbarrow, walking on hind legs, bowling, and catching clown hats in their mouths. Whenever a pig seems reluctant to perform a trick, Rehlander sharpens his butcher’s knife until they comply.
The act is very funny. If these tricks were done by trained dogs the act would be mediocre, but the fact that they are pigs makes the act quite novel."Just another of the Hammerstein freak acts."
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Variety 28:1 (06/09/1912)