Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the day her trial had ended riotous with wisecracks. The courtroom had bulged with spectators. In the corridors countless more pressed toward the door for the free show, while in the streets about the Federal Building thousands stood to wait for the verdict. The jury's "not guilty" loosed a raucous uproar of approval. The crowd "gave the little girl a great big hand" (her cliche...
...thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes set a high standard of vocal expression in reading the lines. Mary Pickford has not performed vocally, for many a year. Her script was hurt when its sex morality was .cut over for film use and a windy, incredible courtroom scene introduced'. Her cast is bad and her director no genius'. But somehow, as- though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness of the phrase, she turns her difficulties to assets, brings vividly...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...painting of a buxom brunette called La Belle Ferronière was still displayed, last week, in a Manhattan courtroom. Was it the work of Leonardo da Vinci? To this question Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had answered YES, and the owner of the painting, Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City, had believed him. But Sir Joseph Duveen, potent millionaire art dealer, had murmured NO, thus preventing the sale of the painting to the Kansas City art museum. Therefore Mrs. Hahn had sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 (TIME, Feb. 18). The trial involved comparisons with the famed and very...
...Into the courtroom came J. Conrad Hug, the Kansas City art dealer who has twice mortgaged his home to obtain money to combat Sir Joseph. A withered, white, frail little old gentleman, he told how he had arranged the sale of the Hahn painting to the Kansas City museum for $250,000, how the Duveen dictum had quashed the bargain. He said that he dealt in picture frames, paintings and etchings. Sir Joseph's lawyer, Louis S. Levy, was quick, acid. "The picture frames are a very big part of your business, aren't they...