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You fellas don't understand. He admits k...

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The Front Page

Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
The press room in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building. 1920s.
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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You fellas don't understand. He admits killing the policeman, but he claims they're just using that as an excuse to hang him, on account he's a radical. But the thing that gets me—personally, my feeling is that Earl Williams is a dual personality type on account of the way his head is shaped. It's a typical case of psychology. Now you take the events leading up to the crime; his hanging a red flag out of the window on Washington's Birthday. That ain't normal, to begin with. The officer ought to have realized when he went up there that he was dealing with a lunatic.

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page, Covici-Friede, 1928, pp. 24-25.

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