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WHISPERING WIRES?The last theatrical shocker to stay into the warm weather. If you have ever thought of murdering your enemies via tele-phone?see this. Arterio-sclerotics should keep away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...Theatre Guild by way of Broadway. You AND I-The Harvard Prize Play, by Philip J. Q. Barry, with the best balanced cast in town. Clever dialogue and shrewd observations of manners, morals, and institutions in the younger generation. THE LAST WARNING - The season's best shilling shocker at about twelve shillings a seat. But worth it. Mechanical tricks and theatrical ingenuity employed with spine-chilling effect. THE LAUGHING LADY - Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing-room. As the somewhat declasse Lady Marjorie she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant married lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

Michigan State's presence in the Final Four wasn't much of a shocker either...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: More March Madness Musings | 3/23/1920 | See Source »

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