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...harried desk clerk (Peter Howard) is making wake-up calls and morosely entertaining the predictable series of complaints about noise, lack of hot water and general decay. (It sounds more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm...
...deliberation, the jury took its first vote: it was split. The crucial factor in the jurors' minds was Harris' detailed yet contradictory description of the shootings. They asked to have five hours of her testimony reread. Foreman Russell Von Glahn, a bus mechanic from Yonkers, had a clerk repeat aloud again and again the parts where Harris tried to recall how the shots were fired. Marion Stephens, a teacher from Rye, asked to have Harris' account of how she attempted suicide reread twice...
...ordeal seemed to have shriveled her a bit more. The jurors, stone faced and grim, did not look at her, seated at the defense table, as they filed in. "I understand the jurors have arrived at a verdict," said Judge Leggett. Von Glahn rose and nodded yes. The clerk asked: "How do you find the defendant, Jean Harris, on the first count of second-degree murder?" Replied Von Glahn: "Guilty!" He was asked about two lesser charges, second-and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. "Guilty!" he said. "Guilty...
James Vorenberg has played a lot of roles since 1951, when he graduated from the Law School: clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, private attorney, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, associate special prosecutor during Watergate, master of Dunster House. In each role, however, the same qualities emerged--a strong sense of organization, an active concern for the community, and a kind of pragmatic or moderate liberalism...
Vorenberg started his career in the office of the general counsel of the secretary of the Air Force. After three years there, he moved on to serve as Frankfurter's clerk...