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Bachelor Mother

Lux Radio Theatre · January 22, 1940 · 59 min · 9,449 words

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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Ginger Rogers and Frederick Miles in Bachelor Mothers with Frank Albertson. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

To the young ladies of our modern business world, the lunch hour means a great deal more than just lunch. just lunch. It may mean a shopping trip, a visit to the hairdresser, a rendezvous, or perhaps an unexpected adventure. And during a lunch hour the alert young businesswoman is prepared for almost anything to happen. But Miss Polly Parish in our play Bachelor

Mother was just minding our own business when something happened that not only upset her lunch hour but changed her whole life. One thing led to another in such a gay series of adventures that RKO's picture, Bachelor Mother, turned out to be one of the comedy hits of the year.

Although taking by surprise, the modern young woman of our story knew exactly what caused to follow. In fact, we take our hats off to the resourcefulness of our modern girls in general. Consider the example sent to me by a member of our audience.

It's a clipping from the Birmingham, Alabama news in which a resourceful young lady advertises, Girl in need of work at once will consider dishwashing if lucks is used. I'll make a bet you got a job with a wise employer.

When lucks flakes is in the dishpan, both Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady are sisters in the care of their skin. For the role of the modern young Miss Polly Parish in Bachelor Mother, our choice was the modern young Miss Ginger Rogers, who played the part with typical ginger and wit on the screen. She comes to us from the set of the new RKO picture Primrose

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