Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Judge Lester William Roth of Los Angeles, who "used to be a newspaperman myself,"† pleased the newspapermen covering his courtroom by continuing into last week the dispute .about the incipient gigantism of 235-lb., 6-ft., 14-year-old Adolph Roome (TIME, April 6). Last fortnight Judge Roth assured large Adolph's mother that her onetime husband, Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr. would not be allowed to "experiment'' on Adolph with pituitary extract. Said the Judge then: "The boy is not a guinea pig.'' But last week, Dr. Roome having shown that pituitary...
Your broadcast March 20-superb. Courtroom audioscenes perfect. Introduction of military in ambush well done . . . but can it be you had to borrow Collier Hour Girl for ambush play? . . . Present hour too late. . . . Great compliment to Columbia-your selecting them...
Scene: a Los Angeles courtroom last week...
...Silent Witness is a mystery play which mystifies. In addition, it is well-staged, its scenes revolve quickly, and during the courtroom sequence there are moments of good oldtime melodrama. Unlike most of the recent Shubert importations, The Silent Witness has a plausible script, thanks to the doctorings of Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble...
...Kansas City, Missouri's white-crowned, red-faced onetime U. S. Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed was defending a Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, on trial for the murder of her husband (TIME, March 9). In the courtroom Photographer George Cauthen of the Journal Post made a "shot." Senator Reed. 69, slapped the jaw of Photographer Cauthen, 30. Next day appeared on the frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head...