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Judge Callahan's announced intention was to "debunk" the Scottsboro case. At the first two trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed...
...arms, while planning for the acquisition of eight children. Elizabeth Allan is the feminine interest, or at least is intended to be, for again we have only the preview's word for it that there is any interest whatsoever in the picture. Miss Allan's face is squat, her acting a nonentity, but her figure is lissome. It is a shame that we have to see so much more of the face than the rest, but it is a relief to realize that very little of the "fiminine interest" is seen...
...short, squat, bowlegged manifestation of dignity is waddling up Mass. Avenue towards the Square. He probably stops at the sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action...
With a few-unimportant exceptions the big-league orchestras have kept their old lineups and star performers. Squat little Mischa Mischakoff still plays first violin for Chicago, lean young Alfred Wallenstein the 'cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...
...time the coal code reached the stage of public hearings in August, Miner Lewis dominated the scene. Before a packed auditorium a Deputy NRAdministrator sang out: "We will now hear from the president of the United Mine Workers of America." Lewis, John L. Everyone in the hall knew the squat, bullnecked, heavy-pawed figure that swaggered out to the rostrum. There was a glint of arrogance in his grey eyes. He jutted his heavy jaw. Dramatically he introduced himself in the idiom of the true labor leader: "The name is Lewis-John L." When the titters had died away Lewis...