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It is difficult to understand how Herman
Meyer reconciles a German comedian
makeup and accent resembling the familiar
burlesque type with a specialty that
is otherwise entirely polite.
He sits down at the piano and
sings three verses of a song to his own
accompaniment, interrupting himself frequently
to make side observations that
are far from funny. He then does a rather skillful bit
of ventriloquial work which represents to
a laughable degree one's imagination of
how a chicken would squawk a tune. It
made a ridiculous bit of foolery and the
audience laughed heartily at it. This bit
of nonsenae is the real hit of the act.
Source:
Variety 12:3 (09/26/1908)