Word: henrie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is of Judith* and was originally concentrated for the stage by Henri Bernstein. It argues that the quest of glory can be consummated more surely by service to one's people than by love. Though they are in love, Judith kills Holofernes in his tent. There is all the declamation and gaily colored scenery requisite to sustain these hours of argument and action. The general combination is conducive to little except definite apathy...
...cold for the scraps of news flung to them ever and anon by devious persons. Inside, Maitre Donal Guigue, Public Prosecutor, demanded the death sentence. Nobody had the right to kill, he said. But his heart was not behind his words; he was reciting a mere formality. To Maitre Henri Robert, defending lawyer, he confided: "I envy you your job. Would I were standing in your place. This case is one in which the Public Prosecutor's role is not that of a sympathetic figure...
Silence reigned and yet gave way to greater silence as M. Henri Robert called the 23-year-old defendant to testify. She was not put into the prisoner's dock, but sat on a special seat in the centre of the court room. She stood up, a slim, neat figure dressed in black from hat to shoes, her delicate, pretty, pale face appearing as fine chalk contrasted with charcoal. Under a searching cross-examination in a sympathetically inclined court where men and women sat silent with tears streaming from their eyes, she told her story: She and the young author...
...Maitre Henri Robert asked the jury to acquit "the young stranger here and to give an answer without leaving this courtroom and this child...
Married. Gloria Swanson. 27, cinema actress, to the Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray; in Paris. He is her third husband. Wallace Beery, cinema villain, was first; Herbert K. Somborn of California, second. Both obtained divorces on grounds of desertion. Seriously wounded in the war, the Marquis de Falaise received two citations for bravery...