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The Boss

Lux Radio Theatre · March 14, 1938 · 58 min · 9,819 words

The transcript of “The Boss”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast March 14, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Edward Arnold, Fay Ray and H.B. Warner in the Boss. Lux presents Hollywood. Our thanks to those of you who are expressing your approval of our program by regular purchases of our product Lux, toilet soap.

You'll find you'll like our product as much as you like our theater, and we appreciate your loyalty. For it is your loyalty to Lux that makes this program possible. In our theater tonight's our Edward Arnold, Fay Ray and H.B. Warner, of honor whom you'll hear in a moment in the boss.

As special guests, we bring you Dorothy Dix, nationally known advisor on Lubben Marriage and one of the most famous columnists in the history of journalism. Noah Silver's directs our music. The Lux Radio Theater is personally produced by Hollywood's master showman, your host ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Edward Arnold has long been familiar with the role of Mike Regan in Edward Sheldon's melodrama, The Boss, which we present tonight. As a stock company actor, Mr. Arnold played the role in St. Paul and Utica, where it served, somewhat ingrariously, to take him from the stage to the screen. He arrived in Utica, worn

out from two exhausting years of work and worry. He was further distressed by an offer to make silent pictures, which he didn't know whether or not to accept. It all had a devastating effect on his performances in the boss.

Try as he would, Mr. Arnold couldn't get through an act without forgetting his lines. The rest of the cast was frantic. They begged him, they flattened him, they threatened him. Eddie in turn promised and tried desperately and failed.

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