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Sorrell and Son

Lux Radio Theatre · January 1, 1940 · 59 min · 8,820 words

The transcript of “Sorrell and Son”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast January 1, 1940. 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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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Herbert Marshall in Sorrel and Sun, with Richard Carlson and Karen Morley. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Our first greetings of 1940.

Tonight in the Lux Radio Theatre, we dedicate our play to fathers everywhere. If the father in your own household looks a little incredulous when he hears this, you mustn't blame him. We've had so many fine plays about mothers lately that we haven't paid much attention to fathers.

But tonight in celebration of the new year we turn over a new leaf and give you sorrow and sun, the moving drama of a man and his boy, adapted from the novel by Warwick Deeping.

Perhaps we've also slighted the gentleman in our audience by addressing ourselves to the ladies when we talked about Lux Flake. Of course, they're the ones who use it, but after all it's the men who notice the pleasant effect of Lux Flakes on the feminine wardrobe and the family budget. In tonight's drama, Captain Stephen Sorrow had only one thing to

live for, the welfare of his son Kit, and to that end he devoted his life. In the role of Stephen Sorrow, we give you an actor who seems perfect for the character, Mr. Herbert Marshall. Whenever I talk with Bart Marshall about playing a part, he gets that ocean-going gleam in his eye. You see, our first association was making a picture in Hawaii, and I think

he's always hoping that lightning will strike twice in the same place. For Saul and Son, however, he came entirely by land from the RKO studios, where he's starring in a bill of divorcement. In the part of the Sun, we have two actors. Clifford VII, Jr., will be We kit as a child, and Richard Carlson will play kit as a young man, old enough to fall

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