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A Dolls House

Lux Radio Theatre · June 6, 1938 · 59 min · 10,010 words

The transcript of “A Dolls House”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 6, 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 Joan Crawford and Basil Rathbun in Adol's house. Present Hollywood. It's your purchases of our products, lux toilets open, lux flakes, ladies and gentlemen, that make this program possible.

For the splendid loyalty you show us, our sincere gratitude. Last week we announced an offer of a beautiful compact. So many of the ladies in our audience have taken advantage of this offer, and we are making it again tonight at the end of our program.

So please listen carefully and have your pencils ready. Start tonight are Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbun, Sam Jaffee, Netta Herrigan and Vernon Steele in a doll's house. As special guest, Miss Francis Manson, head of the story department of Samuel Gouldin Productions.

Our orchestra is conducted by Lewis Servers. And now, the producer of the Lux Radio Theater. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play is the work of one of the loneliest figures in literature, Enric Ibsen. How about you stricken as a boy? Ibsen exiled himself for many years from his native Norway because of the lukewarm reception that country

gave his plays. First produced many years ago, a Dao's house provoked the storm of angry criticism because the playwright dared express the belief that a happy marriage must have a foundation of truth, freedom, and intellectual companionship. Like all masterpieces, a Dalthouse has a deathless quality and has brought fame to a score of world-renowned actresses. To

which list we add tonight the name of Joan Crawford, and no one is less conscious of her success than Joan herself. She tackled each new job with the same, I've got to make good attitude that she had when she first arrived here fresh from her Hubert chorus, a Metro Golden mare star, Joan is seen next in the shining hour and is heard tonight as

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