Bernard

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Attired in a large dress suit and a blond chin beard, Bernard "speaks" a political monolog, fashioned after Cliff Gordon's. Five minutes of this and then singing "Hello Central" in German completed the turn without a hand.
Bernard, however, has no dialect and no delivery. The only laugh he got was by resorting to the word "hell."
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Variety 25:4 (12/30/1911)