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...most dramatic murder cases in recent years came to a starting close last evening when Mary Dugan, follies beauty, was acquitted of the killing of her millionaire lover, Edgar Rice. The jury was out only a very short time in forming its decision. The acquittal came as a fitting climax to the brilliant uphill battle staged by attorney for the defense James Dugan, brother of the accused, and was enthusiastically acclaimed by a crowded court house...
Aside from your public obligation to serve on this jury, you owe it to yourself to see one of the best productions that Boston has harbored for a long time. "The Trial of Mary Dugan" is originally and cleverly conceived, ably written, and excellently staged and acted. More can rarely be said for a play in these days of dramatic vicissitudes when it takes more than a ladder to mount the heights of popular success...
...Mary Dugan isn't what one would call a nice girl, but there's reason in her badness, and despite a shady reputation in matters pertaining to sex, she's not half so wicked as the district attorney would like to make the jury believe. She has no witnesses, however, and her case begins to look extremely dark when her impetuous young brother, an embryonic lawyer, messes things up worse by objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring...
...Midnight Taxi shows Helene Costello falling for an honest bootlegger in a complicated but exciting melodrama filmed on a train. A variation between the race between the car and the train is one between train and airplane. In sound, Comedian Tommy Dugan is the screen's first stammerer. Best shot: the line of taxicabs bringing Antonio Moreno's Scotch up from the boat. Best loud-line (Dugan) : "I was in jail but I got pppp ... I got pppp . . . par . . . they let me out for a while. . . ." Best criticism (Variety) "Can go into any wired house for a week...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN−Now the vast stage of the Century Theatre is the courtroom in which a chorine tells her troubles (TIME...