Seven Keys to Baldpate

From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Jack Benny and Mary Livingston in Seven Keys to Ball Fate. That's Presents Hollywood. Tonight, the Douglas Jack Benny and the Mechanic Mary Livingston lead us in the paths of peril and adventure.

Labs, chills, crooks, treasure, a damsel in distress, a mad hermit. This is only part of what Jack Benny encounters tonight in that grand comedy mystery by George M. Cohen, Seven Keys to Ball Fate, adapted from the novel by Earl Durb Dickens.

You'll hear also as special guests, the world-renowned violinist Efrem Zimblis. Conducting our orchestra is low as silver. Tonight's play is brought to you by the makers of Lux Flakes. Before I introduce our producer, let me remind you that it's thrifty to buy several big boxes of Lux Flakes at a time.

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And now, our producer, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. Tamille! Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Before we raise our curtain, we wish to advise our listeners that if any important news bullet comes under European situation, I'll receive that the Columbia Broadcasting System headquarters, they'll be giving you at the intermission during our program.

Now to our play and personalities. When George M. Cohen adapted seven keys to ball paint for the stage, he had no intention of starring in it. But just before the opening, he and the leading man met with an accident.

The leading man was too seriously injured to go on, so Mr. Cohen, broken collarbone and all, stepped into the breach. When I related these facts to Mary Livingston, she threw back her head bravely and declared that if Mr. Cohen could carry on with such a handicap, she could carry on with Jack Benny.