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Violin, piano and musical novelty with questions and answers.
"Words and Music."
Fred Berrens in "Words and Music" made them like him with his musical novelty in the early spot. Berrens is a good looking chap with a nice delivery and has a real novelty with his mechanical piano assistant. He opens with a violin solo then invitee any woman to come up and accompany him. The spot is thrown in the aisle and he escorts an imaginary assistant to a seat at the mechanical piano. The piano answers questions musically with popular song music. They are carefully selected. The piano roll is perfectly timed and some of the answers got laughs. It is refreshingly new and was well received.
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Variety, 54:11 (05/09/1919)