The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-16

ever seen on BrOauWay WuAspetS expectantiy and watches the red velvet curtains.
 Newton ID. Baker, former secre- tary of war, mods back to James M. Beck, former solicitor general. Attorney General Cummings stakes hands with ex-Secretary of State Kellogg. Senator Cotton Ed'' Smith of South Carolina, CO., author of the central plot in the drama, sQueezes unnoticed into a chair too small for his bulky body.
 The stage is long dias of carefully polished mahogany. And as the hands of the great gold clock suspended above 1t come together at noon, . hush- cd silence falls over the thrOng.
 Behind the velvet curtains at one side, nine aged actors wait for their cue. They are goWned in black. Tn fsont of them is a little boy in knee brooches. At a nod from the leading man -- a bearded gentleman of stately mien-the boy pushes a buZzer and the Nine Old Men advance abreast through the curtains: Dramatic Entrance The audience rises.
 "The Honorable, the Chief Justice and the Associate Jus tices of the Supreme Court of
 the United States!" calls the court crier.
 He pauses, until they have reached their chairs, where they remain standing.
 "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the hon. orable. the supreme court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court!'
 The justices take their seats.
 The supreme court is now in
 session.
 The chairs in which they sii are the only protest which the most venerable court of the lano made against the encroachmeni of modernity in their new temple of justice. Marble pillars, air cooling, shower-baths, fountains expansive fire-places - all thest they accepted. But at new chair they baked. So now they stil teeter back and forth in the olt worn leather swivel-chairs iron the old supreme court chamber
 In less comfortable seats. un- der the noses of the nine jus-
 tices sit court reporters and
 newsmen.
 School Teacher
 Chief Justice Hughes mods t' Justice Cardozo at the extrem' left, and Cardozo launches a loni talk on building and loan associa tions. Newsmen stuff message into pneumatic tubes to be car
 ried to the telegraph room ol the floor below. No scurryin messenger boys disturb the su preme serenity.
 Like g schooImaster calling
 on his pupils, the stately chief
 justice mods to one, then an-
 other of his colleagues. They
 recite.
 Audience attention which lagge
 during Cardozo's dreary explan ation of mortgages, suddenl snaps to attention. At the othe end of the bench, Owen Robert N square jawed and deep-voice' a the man who represented tn ,1 government in the Teapot Dom oil scandals, begins to speak. AA "Jeff Bowers was found lyinl .sA in . grocery store, dying from 2 uO gunshot wound"
 But the audience is disappoint
 kd. Justice Roberts ignores con
 lletely the question of who kille ii eff Bowers and launches into w lghly technical question of r e. Pnsibility for paying workman he 4mpensation.
 he Ee speaks with full resonal
 tdes, without once referring :. hAnotes. He is 8 superb act -. buwith poor lines. Chief Justi' ssn HuAes is the same. But the ,ie ,, colAgues humble iRto pape =, witlfeeble vocal chords. 7" Onion after opinion dron
 on: Indian property, workmer It. comhsation, mortgages, ga n. bage tsposal. The expectant al $, diencSs bored.
 .e- @ Susnnse-Climax it's It is4:3O ?. m. Suddenly u lie court i&esses. The first act h th been ahud. But. as if with he sense oAthe dramatic, the nj ,ill aged acFs have kept their bt
 show forthe end.
 . Cracks and milk in the rob ~ ing room Justice Brandeis eai 'I two sand Hiches put up in small b0zby his wife before h
 leaves hhe. Justice McRey
 holds preiks more solid food.
 Once agsh the justices mar ;se out on the\ stage. Sharp-nos vic Stanley Reel solicitor of the ti na tice departAent, stands bef' .a- them in mohing coat and gl Irv striped trousfs. Senator Smi