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These remarks served to make a sort of burlesque out of a very serious performance on the screen. The choicer remarks follow:

1.) At a point where the agony had been heaped on and on, the Commodore leaned over to me and remarked with a sigh, "All this for a piece of nuckki."

2.) There was a symbolic scene of the waves of the ocean rushing directly at the audience and breaking hugely, it seemed right into the theater. The Commodore said in a super stage whisper, "Good old Lake Champlain."

3.) After Bette had come to America and a new life, young Field was promising to devote his whole life to seeing she found happiness. Taft leaned to me and remarked, "All he'd have to do would be take her on a straw ride."

Mrs. Taft sat near enough to hear some of this horseplay and was much annoyed. And when on leaving the theater, Pertsch proposed the men go over for a quick ale and we went, he was in the doghouse too. So he, Taft and I left the ladies on our arrival at Basin Harbor and went to the last half hour of the Barn Dance and wished we had skipped the movie and gone to all of it. Taft got in some strange square dance and cavorted around with Mrs. Nelson, a pretty blond southern girl, and I danced the Virginia Reel with her, amid much hilarity. Later Taft and Pertsch swore a girl next to us on the bench wanted to know all about me- married or single, etc. I noticed she had big legs and from then on she was "Big Legs". It was all over too soon.