Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Face the Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
Sued. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; by Charlotte Poillon; for $5,000. Charge: failure to reward her for disclosing an extortion plot. Charlotte Poillon and her sister, Katherine, have graced many a courtroom since 1900, when they thrashed a masher in Central Park...
...versatile Walter Huston has split rails for Griffith's "Lincoln" and harangued juries in courtroom scenes, and now, at the R. K. O. Boston Theatre, he goes down to the sea in ships. He earns his bread by bringing in salmon to a tiny fisher village somewhere in the north. Morose and violent, he strides away from the funeral of his first wife to drink barroom whiskey and brawl over a prostitute. Like another Captain Ahab, he rules his son, Kent Douglass, who has no heart for fishing...
...somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents; how he walked out the back door into the arms of Federal agents. Declared Judge Spencer: "I don't believe there's a person in this courtroom who would find this defendant guilty. He did exactly as any of us would have done under the circumstances. I find him not guilty...
After deliberating 65 hours, a jury in Los Angeles acquitted Alexander Pantages, 59, theatre operator, in his second trial on the charge of criminally assaulting Eunice Pringle, 19, dancer. Courtroom spectators cheered loudly, leaped atop their chairs, milled about the rich showman and his wife. On his first trial, two years ago, Mr. Pantages was convicted, sentenced to prison for 1-to-50 years. Promptly Miss Pringle began suit for $1,000,000 damages. The convicted man was freed on $100,000 bail while he appealed for-and won-a new trial because the court had forbidden testimony relating...