:02:04
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"
wrote Keats.
:02:08
Can this court take it upon itself
tojudge what is beauty and art?
:02:12
In the face of such words as these,
I quote: "She walks in beauty...
:02:17
"like the night of cloudless
climes and starry skies.
:02:21
"And all that's best
of dark and bright...
:02:24
"meet in her aspect
and in her eyes,
:02:28
"thus, mellowed
to that tender light...
:02:31
which Heaven
to gaudy day denies."
:02:35
Unquote.
Lord Byron, 1821.
:02:40
Quote. "Every obscene, lewd or lascivious
filthy book, pamphlet, picture...
:02:46
"or other publication
of an indecent character...
:02:49
"is declared to be nonmailable matter
and shall not be conveyed in the mails...
:02:52
or delivered from any post
office or by any carrier. "
:02:55
Unquote.
U.S. Criminal Code, 1909.
:03:00
You know, Tremain,
:03:02
this is your ninth appearance
before me.
:03:05
As a matter of curiosity, is there anything
new you can say before I pronounce judgment?
:03:10
If I am guilty of anything,
Your Honor,
:03:12
it is of being a lover
of grace and beauty...
:03:14
Grace and beauty!
:03:17
If your idea of grace
and beauty is this...
:03:19
this coarse, overdeveloped
caricature of a woman...
:03:22
Your Honor!
You're speaking about my wife.
:03:26
Your wife?
:03:31
Well, that is Evelyn,
isn't it.
:03:38
My humble apologies,
Mrs. Tremain.
:03:41
After all these years, it's ridiculous
not to have known it was you.
:03:48
Now let's get this over with.
:03:50
As usual, guilty.
As usual, suspended sentence.
:03:53
Thank you, Your Honor. Uh,
one moment, beauty worshiper.
:03:57
On behalf of the Attorney General,
may I wish you a final good-bye?