Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apart from the courtroom scene, the play is one of homely American wit, complicated by illicit love, bootleg whiskey, and women's rights. The acting was good. Miss Hanson went through the part of the Judge with a certain dignity and carriage which lent breeding to the play where one would not expect it. Little Miss Lyons in the somewhat impossible role of the daughter who sinned was young, and eager, and refreshing. Miss Hill and Miss Milne did excellent character bits. Although we have already suggested the charm which Mr. Hodge continually displays, it is impossible to put down...
Curious spectators crowded into a courtroom at Melun, last week, as two men and ten women, all members of the Sadistic Bordeaux cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears) were arraigned on a charge of having stripped and flogged the Abbé des Noyers at Bombon (TIME...
...getting himself convicted by the righteous state of Tennessee of having "taught evolution" out of school books approved by that state's educational authorities. It is six months since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily headlines about a classic struggle between Reason and Religion...
...dinner time and people were beginning to get hungry?6:30 in the evening. The Court filed into the courtroom. Major General Robert L. Howze, President of the Court, spoke...
This play however differs sharply in one prominent particular. It is proved that the employer was really a good sort after all (a bit weak, to be sure), and the girl a nasty little schemer. All this comes out in the final courtroom scene where the girl is acquitted by the kindly male jury only to have her attorney (after the verdict was carefully won) turn on them and tell the truth...