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...been concerned with the legal nature of obscenity since 1931. In that year he ruled in favor of Dr. Marie Stope's Married Love. Three months later he rendered a favorable decision on her Contraception. He was the judge in famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned the vacation he devoted to Ulysses by presiding last spring at the longest criminal case in the history of U. S. jurisprudence, the 109-day fraud trial of the promoters of the National Diversified Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Welcome to Ulysses | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...shades of a happier, more opulent day hover over the trial of Ervin F. Brown, a member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/15/1933 | See Source »

...take thee ... for my lawful wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1,000 Vows | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Berlin and Vienna who has been working in Hollywood and is just making his bow on the Broadway stage. Sly Polemist Woollcott (The New Yorker), who relishes a good mystification, must have enjoyed inserting that bit into the humorous murder show he has written with famed Collaborator Kaufman (Of Thee I Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...quavering voice, Alexander Throttlebottom wins the support of the Union League Club by letting the members believe that the revolution is directed against the British. The jokes about France's War debt, the mental incompetence of voters, the uselessness of the Vice-Presidency,* which made Of Thee I Sing so amusing, are all reworked for Let 'em Eat Cake. They fall quite flat. So do George Gershwin's antiphonal choral numbers which have grown longer and more tedious' since he first used them in Strike Up the Band (1927). Brother Ira Gershwin's flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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