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...greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin met his death was to be told under oath...
...understand what rape means?" asked Sir Patrick Hastings of his client as the London trial got under...
They Shall Not Die (by John Wexley; produced by the Theatre Guild). Playwright Wexley bases his works (The Last Mile, Steel) on Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty...
Seeking Divorce. Thalia Fortescue Massie, 22, victim of Hawaii's most publicized rape & murder case; from Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., who was pardoned after serving one hour of his sentence for murdering one of his wife's attackers. Said she: "The divorce is being obtained at the insistence of Lieutenant Massie. I am personally reluctant to take such a step...
...first cigarette, her first cocktail, and her first kiss are not followed in quick succession by her first illegitimate child only because her lover has a hundred dollars to hire a doctor. The shock of almost being had by her father on the night after her abortion (a rape is only a rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next daughter what's what before it's too late. The fade...