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Stage Door

Lux Radio Theatre · February 20, 1939 · 59 min · 9,783 words

The transcript of “Stage Door”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast February 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 Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, and Adolph Montju in Stage Door. Lux presents Hollywood. This is a drama of Broadway, of the tears and joys, the struggles and romance, of a group of girls battling for recognition behind the footlights.

Starring our Ginger Rogers, Adolph Montju, and Rosalind Russell, and with the E-Varden. Conducting our orchestra is Lewis Silvers, and between the acts you'll hear one of Broadway's famous characters, George Pierce, stage-door man of the Empire Theatre.

Before introducing our producer, I'm worried about the product bringing you this hour of entertainment. Out here in Hollywood, 9 out of 10 screen stars use Luxe toilet soap. They use it regularly in their studio dressing rooms and at home, too.

When a screen star whose complexion is priceless uses an inexpensive soap like Luxe Torelitzope, you can be sure there's a reason, and here it is. Luxe Torelitzope is skillfully made of the finest possible ingredients.

More important, Luxe Torelitzope has active lather that offers you protection against careless cleansing. Let Hollywood's beauty soap be your beauty soap, and help you protect the priceless loveliness of your complexion. And now, the producer of the Luxe Radio Theatre.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. It's about 25 years ago that a church worker making a sick call on a young actress living in the theatrical district of New York City noticed a pistol on the dresser.

When the girl told her the neighborhood was so tough that she needed the weapon for protection, her visitor determined to do something about it. From that determination came a theatrical club, two brownstone buildings in the West 50s, the real-life background of our play, the home of hopefully young actresses who find New York

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