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Eamon de Valera used to teach mathematics. Teacherish in appearance, called "impractical" by his enemies, he is a Messiah of Freedom. In 1916 he was sentenced to Death for commanding insurgents against King George, but his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, and the General Amnesty of 1917 made him free. Elected to a seat in the London Parliament, he refused to sit, was "elected" by his Irish friends "President" of the "Irish Republic" (illegal) and as such rejected the Treaty of 1921 which, nevertheless, set up the Irish Free State. Later, Mr. de Valera resigned as "President...
...Anthracite Coal Strike, Haywood Trial, McNamara Case, Loeb-Leopold Trial, Scopes Case brought Darrow fame; did not change his attitude toward the penal code. Much of his work was done with little pay and in the face of public opinion. But when he undertook a case nothing could stop him. He fought for his clients as for his own life...
Prestige (RKO-Pathe) is a tedious hyperbole concerned with Army life in an Indo-Chinese penal colony. Ann Harding suffers the difficulties customary for heroines so situated: her husband (Melvyn Douglas) in his own phrase is "going to pieces." A Negro minion kills the admirer (Adolphe Menjou) with whom she endeavors to escape to Paris. There follows a prison riot in which Douglas redeems his prestige by switching his rebellious charges with a stock-whip. Good shot: the Negro servant looking mournfully at Ann Harding after he has murdered Menjou...
...place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...
...method by which a convict could "be made a man again" are past. Modern pyschology has found how greatly environment affects character, but these findings accomplish little if not put to some tangible use. America has been troubled by many uprisings of this sort and while they continue the penal system of the nation appears as much a blemish upon the banishers as upon the bannished...