Word: goddard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Passing of the Third Floor Back, with Paulette Goddard and Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
...piece of testimony, produced at a congressional hearing but barred from the first trial by Judge Samuel Kaufman, was admitted to the second trial by Judge Henry Goddard. Hiss, who had a Ford roadster, had bought a new Plymouth. Said Chambers: "He wanted to get rid of the Ford. He proposed to turn it over to the Communist Party for the use of some poor organizer . . . Later Mr. Hiss told me that he had turned the car over according to an arrangement made between him and J. Peters." If the Government could prove that such a transfer had actually taken...
Conception of an Oath. In contrast to the first trial, proceedings went calmly and methodically. Once Hiss's lawyer, Claude B. Cross, suggested: "I don't like to interrupt, but I believe that is irrelevant." Big, austere Judge Goddard stroked his chin. "You are probably right. But it really isn't prejudicial to your client. Let's let it stand...
There were some changes in the cast of characters. Elderly (73), dignified Judge Henry Goddard, an appointee of President Harding, took the place of Judge Samuel Kaufman, an appointee of President Truman. A jury of eight women and four men took the places of the two women and ten men who, last summer, had so sensationally disagreed as to whether Hiss was guilty of perjury. At the defense table the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer, Claude B. Cross, had replaced the flamboyant Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...part of Anna, a generous, warmhearted girl gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard, a skin-deep beauty whose chief acting prop is a flirtatious wink...