Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies of the Jury (RKO) takes a situation which cinema generally treats as melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court...
...smartest defense attorneys in the Northwest. Married, father of three daughters and a son, he gave up drinking and smoking several years ago because of his health. To him in his campaign, the Seattle electorate was hardly more than one enormous jury to be swayed back & forth by courtroom oratory. Besides unhinging his office door, to fulfill his countless campaign pledges Mayor Dore must also cut all city salaries over $3,000, including his own, must dismiss the superintendent of the city-owned street railway system and, like Theodore Roosevelt two generations ago in New York City, must prowl...
...left the courtroom, Wilbur Day was heard to remark: "The law sure is a crazy business...
...Memphis courtroom last week stood Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, popular dean of smart St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Pallid and ascetic, Dean Noe was painfully embarrassed. All Memphis was privy to the domestic secrets of the deanery in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe began a divorce suit against her husband last year, charging that for three years he had lived a separate life in their house (TIME...
Packed with women, the courtroom buzzed. Mrs. Noe fainted. Dean Noe rushed to her side with a glass of water. Quickly revived, she cried...