Show Boat

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Irene Dunn, Alan Jones and Charles Winninger in Shobow. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Straight down the heart of America, for 2,500 miles of corn and cotton, town and city, Roles, old man river. Rolling down to the sea in days gone by, he watched the epic of a nation building in the pageant of puffing steamboats.

It overtures a song of dusky Steve Doors on the levee. But the strangest and the most glamorous of all the craft that ever sailed the Mississippi is the kind that celebrated in tonight's play, Showboat.

Almost vanished from the river now. The showboat lives on in this tender story and in the unforgettable music of Jerome Kern. I'm sure you'll approve our judgment in selecting the same three stars who played in the motion picture.

Irene Dunn, Alan Jones, and Charles Winenjoe, and this fulfills one of our longstanding ambitions to bring Irene Dunn to this stage in a part that requires a large order of singing as well as acting.

Charles Winenjoe is the captain of our craft. Irene Dunn and Alan Jones are star performers in his company, and the gay excitement the steamboat stage is a colorful backdrop for the love story, the song, and the heartwarming drama of Shobo.

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Now our curtain rises on a scene of action and adventure. As we present Act One of Showboat, darling Irene Dunn as the lovely Magnolia, Alan Jones as Gaylord Ravenol, and Charles Winninger as Captain Andy Hawk.