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Chicago?Crude, healthy satire on how a murderess greased with tabloid gush squeezes through the wheels of justice...
Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...
...weeks later the terrible old man sent me a letter informing me that what I had eaten was part of the thigh of_ an executed murderess, which he had obtained through bribing the police. I need not add that I was sick to nausea for days and weeks afterwards...
...Plateau had, as a matter of fact, asked the jury to grant extenuating circumstances to her son's murderess...
...trial the public prosecutor, in addressing the jury, said he saw no place for extenuating circumstances, but added: "The mother of the dead asks you, gentlemen of the jury, through me, to grant such circumstances to the murderess of her son. So grant them, but give a firm, clear and just verdict...