Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impression of the presentation. There is action, hard-riding, good scenery, fast shooting, and here and there a hard right to the jaw. Insofar as "The Last Round-Up" is a step back to the sweeping action and vivid scenery of the silent picture days and away from the courtroom, drawing-room limits that seem to cramp the current crop of talkles, it deserves at least a few words of encouragement...
...London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious...
...first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty. In the play a Manhattan lawyer named Nathan G. Rubin (Claude Rains) does the same job, emerging in a final courtroom scene as the hero of the piece. As in real life one of the two girl accusers, Lucy Wells (Ruth Gordon), repudiates her testimony in the first trial, makes a star witness for the defense in the second. Villains of the piece are the police who maltreat Playwright Wexley...
...meal with the senior partner of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood would doubtless have made a much better third act than the one offered in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It is a gloomy and exceed ingly unreal courtroom scene in which A. E. Matthews, the suavest English actor on the U. S. stage, bites his nails politely while he refutes a rumbling district attorney. It ends with Lawyer Mitchell telling his wife to blow her nose. She indicates that she loves him still by borrowing his handkerchief...
...tire makers are a notoriously jealous family and almost all of them live in Akron. But it was only a coincidence that the leading member of the family spent most of last week in Akron's Domestic Relations Court. The Federal Trade Commission was using the courtroom for hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates...