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It Happened One Night

Lux Radio Theatre · March 20, 1939 · 58 min · 10,089 words

The transcript of “It Happened One Night”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast March 20, 1939. 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 Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, and it happens one night with Walter Connolly and Roscoe Kahn. Lux presents Hollywood, Oster's, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly and Roscoe Kahn. Our play is Happen One Night.

Told to the tune of a roaring bus motor, it's a fast-moving story of a runaway society girl, and the reporter who helped her run. Our guest is a real-life cross-country bus driver, Mr. Harold Burnham, the music of the Lux Radio Theatre, is under the direction of Lewis Silver.

This program comes to you with the good wishes of the makers of Lux Play, the world's largest selling package soap for fine fabric. Lux is safe, safer in everything safe and water alone, and is thrifty about a penny's worth of luck unless the water's hard does under things three times, or stockings four times,

or both a sweater and a dress. In hot water, a little extra lucks gives you wonderful rich suds. Yes, a little goes so far, lucks is 50. Keep the generous large size box of lucks flakes in the bathrooms, laundry and kitchen too.

Give you a thing the care they deserve and help your hands stay nice looking too. You'll do that, won't you? And now, ladies and gentlemen, our host and producer, Mr. Cecil V. Jamil. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

It happened one night that a husky son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Gable of Cade is Ohio. When a boy grew older, it happened one night that a friend who was an actor invited him backstage to witness the performance of the local stock company. The young man was allowed to peer through a peephole in the curtain, saw a vast bank of upturned expectant faces,

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