SOMETHING NEW.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1933, Page 3

SOMETHING NEW.

MODERNISTIC COURTROOM IS USED FOR FIRST TIME ON .... SCREEN IN “UNASHAMED.” 1 Legal precedents, even to architecture, inside, details of police operations, disclosures of the methods of detectives, and other abstruse technical problems, went into the latest mystery drama of the screen, “Unashamed.” jThe new /story, by /Bayard Veiller, famous author of “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” “’Within the Law,” and other stage and screen hits, deals with a police case, as do most of the noted playwright’s stories. The dramatic climax comes in a sensational trial sequence. In an effort to- get something new in a courtroom setting “legal precedent” was sought by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer art department, and it was found that a new courthouse in Alabama had a modernistic court-room. So the play has the first ultra-modern-istic court set in the talkies. Harry Friedman, an attorney, was on the set through the "trial” of Robert Young to see that every line of dialogue and the action of every player conformed to court etiquette and legal precedent. Harry Beaumont directed the new thriller in which an elaborate cast appears. Helen 'Twelvetrees plays the heroine, faced with the, choice of her brother’s, life or the sacrifice of her own reputation. Robert Young is the brother, and Robert Warwick, famous star of silent films, the father. Lewis Stone,. Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Monroe Owsley, Gertrude Michael, Wilfred North, Tommy Jackson and Louise Reaver have important roles.