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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...
Recently at a Soviet banquet British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey noticed with a start that his fork bore the coat of arms of Great Britain, had presumably been stolen from the pre-Revolution British Embassy at Petrograd (TIME...
Suave, Sir Esmond made no protest at the banquet. Resolute, he exerted quiet pressure later. Last week in the British House of Commons Capt. Victor Cazalet, Oxonian, M. P. who greatly admires money, popped this question...
...fearing Church of Englander, Sir Esmond reported to Scot MacDonald (TIME, May 5, 1930), "there is no religious persecution in Russia . . . but . . . priests are . . . deprived of all civil rights. . . . Christianity has already disappeared among the youth of Russia and is being supplanted by Communism...
Nearly all British papers continue to get their Soviet news from Riga, Latvia, where rumors are cooked hot. Against this Sir Esmond has more than once vigorously protested, urging straight journalism, but in vain...