Word: ayn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Night of January 16th" is the murder-mystery, in which the author has relieved himself of the painful necessity of arriving at a conclusion. With an impartiality which would do credit to a magistrate Ayn Rand has written his play in the form of a court trial and arranged things so that the verdict is given by a jury selected from the audience. Thus, as the author tells us, it is really the audience who is on trial. This may or may not be drama, but it certainly makes for a pleasant theatrical picnic...
Night of January 16 (by Ayn Rand; A. H. Woods & Lee Shubert, producers) repeats the theatrical trick which, in The Trial of Mary Dugan, made Producer Woods a tidy fortune in 1927-28. A crime has been committed before the audience arrives, is thereafter unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named...