Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Mountain Dean are as nothing compared to the complexities which arise when C. Richard Courtney of Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind a similar scene from the Merchant of Venice, still it has elements which place it among the great courtroom scenes of all time...
...have," replied the foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
While all Peoria scuffled and scratched to get into the courtroom, suspense hung on whether the defense could make the State produce Thompson's diary listing the 83 women. Headline: RIOT TO HEAR SEX SLAYER'S LOVE DIARY. Peorians tore down the courthouse doors. Headline: NAMES OF 83 GIRL VICTIMS WITHHELD...
...growing out of a murder of a convict by three fellow-convicts within the nearby State Prison Farm. At the outset of the trial of the first prisoner Judge Munson told reporters from the Houston Post, the Houston Press and the Houston Chronicle that they could sit in the courtroom but that their papers must not print any news about the three trials until all were over, on pain of a citation for contempt of court. "These cases are all tried in the newspapers," complained the old judge, "before the defendant gets into court...