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...public could view it. Later a simple service would be held at All Souls' Unitarian Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot on a wooded slope over-looking Washington, a few hundred feet from the grave of Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd...
...Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil for a fat girl who wants to marry him. The fat girl, who looks as though she could barely waddle, does what fat girls must do to stay on the stage-springs a surprise, in this case a tap dance extremely agile...
...picture progresses. Miss Chatterton has the role of a young German girl who, as a vaudeville actress, marries her worthless partner. In a fit of anger, he runs off with their baby son. The picture traces Sarah's rise from vaudeville to grand opera, as a sort of sub-plot to her struggles to regain her boy from the family in whose custody her husband had left it. There is a minor love-story which does not obtrude upon the main theme. The story covers a period of some fifteen years, and for once the clothing of the characters...
This week's bill at the Keith Albee, however, is an exception to that rule, for both the picture and the vaudeville is of the highest type. "Wedding Bells" featuring Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner is an unusually good movie, with its plot of an entirely different type from the average run of pictures...