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...lovers get away with the murder for a while-but cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...
...advised by 'Poon officialdom that an unwary Radcliffe girl once sent in a subscription check without the usual coercion of the circulation department. The incident proved such a shock that the staff, instead of the check, bounced into paralysis. After two frustrating years of silence from the boys, bloody but unbowed she sent another two bucks to Lampy's lottery...
...Reader Rockwell's shock was caused by the U.S. Public Health Service, whose official figures TIME used...
Broadway knows both Clifford Goldsmith and George Abbot as sure-fire when it comes to drawing in the crowds. Goldsmith does not waste his time writing unsuccessful plays, and Abbot, makes a living out of the money he puts into the theatre. It is therefore a somewhat sorry shock to seee "Mr. Cooper's left Hand...
Seeking escape by the only likely-looking "exit," he pops through a little side door. An electric shock tickles his feet. He bolts up a ramp to a death chamber where electric contacts finish him off and dump his body into a wire basket. Meanwhile, the trap resets itself for another victim. The whole cycle takes about three minutes...