Darrow

"Never the Sinner," a play by John Logan about the 1924 Leopold and Loeb trial, opens tomorrow at the Rep Stage's Theatre Outback, the professional theater in residence at Howard Community College. A co-production with Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., "Never the Sinner" is based, in part, on transcripts from the trial of the two wealthy Chicagoans who murdered a 14-year-old boy.Under Ethan McSweeney's direction, Jason Patrick Bowcutt and Michael Solomon star as the 19-year-old murderers, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, and James J. Lawless plays their attorney, Clarence Darrow.

On Friday, December 26, 2003, MS. JENNIFER RUNDELL LEACH, 40, of Fleetwood, North Carolina, died at Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. She was born February 9, 1963, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to John and Luella Bishop Rundell. Survivors include one son, Austin Sumner Leach, of the home; her father and mother, John and Luella Rundell, of Boone, NC, one sister, Heather Rundell Cameron and husband, Raymond, of Boone; one brother, Ethan Sean Rundell, of Berkeley, California and two nieces, Hannah and Darrow Cameron, both of Boone.

Laurence Luckinbill to star as Darrow in one-man showLaurence Luckinbill will perform in a one-man show, "Clarence Darrow," based on the life of the famed defense lawyer, at 8 p.m. Saturday as part of the Command Performance series at the University of Maryland at Baltimore's Medical School Teaching Facility, 10 S. Pine St. Admission is $8.Mr. Luckinbill's credits range from the title role in PBS' "Lyndon," about the late President Lyndon Johnson, to the movie, "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," in which he played Sybok.

Robert Thomas Jones, 89, who began his career as a handyman for a flying circus and later developed a wing design as a NASA scientist that revolutionized air travel, died Wednesday in Los Altos Hills, Calif. Before he designed swept-back wings in 1944, jet wings were built perpendicular to the fuselage. Pivoting them back created less wind resistance, allowing for supersonic speeds with the same engine power. Virtually every commercial and military jet uses the design today. Tommy Ridgley, 73, a veteran vocalist from the golden age of New Orleans rhythm and blues, died in New Orleans on Wednesday of lung cancer.

On the seventh day, the Lord rested. But the work wasn't nearly done.There were problems with the strawberry. Some were sweet enough, but many were not. Some were long, some squat, some firm, but many not. They often bruised easily and were vulnerable to an array of diseases and pests.The trouble was consistency, not to mention productivity. Something had to be done.This is the sort of problem they like to sink their teeth into at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Prince George's County, a 7,200-acre anomaly of pastures, silos, hothouses, laboratories and barns smack in the middle of suburban Washington.

Eighty years ago last July, a Tennessee courtroom erupted in a furious battle over the teaching of evolution in schools. As legal titans William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed in the landmark Scopes "monkey" trial, the country tuned in to listen -- a first, thanks to the youthful medium of radio. To commemorate that event, L.A. Theatre Works has re-created the 1925 "trial of the century" radio experience for a 24-city, live radio theater tour of British playwright Peter Goodchild's docudrama The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, based on the trial transcripts.

Perhaps no movie speaks more eloquently to the changing of the times than Tom Kalin's "Swoon." This is a story that's been told many a time, but almost always from a mainstream perspective.Its hero is always the eloquent Clarence Darrow, that arch liberal and beaming humanitarian, who by the eloquence of his utterances and the passion of his conviction manages to convince a hanging jury in the Chicago of the '20s to show some mercy to two twisted and misguided young men who have committed a revolting crime.

Miriam Grace Hughes Gaylord: The date for graveside services for Miriam Grace Hughes Gaylord, a Baltimore homemaker and supporter of the arts, was reported incorrectly in Wednesday's editions of The Sun. Services will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 16 at Old Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton. The Sun regrets the error.Miriam Grace Gaylord, 87, homemaker, arts supporterMiriam Grace Gaylord, a homemaker and supporter of the arts, died Oct. 27 of a stroke at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 87.The former longtime Bolton Hill resident, who moved to Roland Park Place in 1995, was a subscriber to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Opera Company.

Talbots at Lake Falls Village hopes to attract the fastest-growing segment of the women's wear market -- petites -- when it opens its new store, Talbots' Petites Sept. 28 with a day of informal modeling and refreshments. Come back a week later to sample Talbots' new perfume, "Talbot," a white floral fragrance that's being launched in October.Since the Baltimore Talbots happens to be one of the chain's strongest performers in the country, a children's store is also being considered for the area for next spring.

The corporation that just opened the $65 million, 202-room Hotel Monaco inside Baltimore's historic B&O Building is in danger of losing the property at a public auction next month for not paying a Millersville lumber supplier $184,000 for doors, wood trim and other materials used in the project. A Baltimore circuit judge issued a final order this month establishing a mechanic's lien and directing the sale to move forward on the premises unless the building owner pays the J.F. Johnson Lumber Co. $184,000 plus interest and attorneys' fees by Aug. 31. Johnson had sued Baltimore and Charles Associates LLC, owner of the building at 2 N. Charles St., and general contractor James M. Jost & Co. of Columbia, claiming it is owed more than $230,000 for lumber products used in the construction.