1961-03-11 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1961.

The JUDGES and the JUDGED: part III

"MRS

SIDDONS had a double chin," declared the witness. "The band round her neck in Gainsborough's por-

trait of her is to hold

it up.

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"I've always wonder-

ed," said the judge, "what that band was

for, but I never imagined it was a kind of truss." For at least the 20th time within an hour, peds of delight- laughter rocked King's

ed Bench Court 4.

Anyone standing just outside the door might have supposed himself in the foyer of a theatre where some popular comedy of the day was being performed.

HIS IDEAL But it was simply that, after twenty years upon the Bench, Mr Justier Darlin: had at last secured his ideal ease, and was ut the very peak of his form as a public entertainer.

Laughter

in court

Mr Justice Darling

saw

to

that

By EDGAR LUSTGARTEN

from, or felt indifferent to, the

side

he

by sophisticated counsel, in which no deep emotion or high were aroused. and passions

fur- where the subject-matter nished unple scope for his own brazal of mocking drollery.

•

at her contested

keness), had been a gloomy failure on her ("Many debut at Drury Lane people when they hold their first bricts are," said Darling, with

Mackenzie

a sly glance downwards at the forensic luminaries), and had was his strong been playing continuously in sold, it should point, Darling

say it is giv Liverpool and Manchester while ing evidence." Romney was supposed to be

When the director of the painting her in London.

Irish National Gallery, asked if The weight of evidence this effect

la he wrote the essay on Homney such that the for the Dictionary of National defendants soon conceded that Blography,

responded with the they could not confute it; Mrs oddly phraced statement "I

Was

BATTLE

The Judge submitted

the canvas

to a critical

appraisal

OFFER