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Pygmalion

Lux Radio Theatre · November 27, 1939 · 59 min · 10,833 words

The transcript of “Pygmalion”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast November 27, 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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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Jean Arthur and Brian Herd in Pigmaillie. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play has a different appeal for different people.

To George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, Pigmaillie is about a man who fell in love with a woman of his own creation. But Mr. Shaw is only the author. the author. From the standpoint of the woman, Pigmaillian is pure Cinderella, and that gives it a special appeal for every woman. The story of Cinderella will never grow old, because

it expresses the longing of all women to be more beautiful. Of course, the pumpkin, coach, and grass slippers are a little out of date. Present-day Cinderella's who want to catch the eye of some handsome prince are more likely to depend on that fresh-out-of-the-band box looks, and I sure there's a good supply of lux flakes on hand. In fact, I suppose

a modern Cinderella considers lux flakes stand at equipment. Pigmaleon was the first of Shaw's plays to reach the screen. This outspoken gentleman made it better known to our public for what he said in person rather than for what he said in his plays. But tonight in Pigmaleon we have Shaw at his wisest and wittiest. If by

chance some of you have a notion that Mr. Shor is dull, prepare to change your mind. The romantic hero of Thigmalian is a professor, quite unromantic, until he meets the heroine one night in the rain. Our professor, like most professors, has a pet theory and proceeds to remodel the life of the girl in question according to this theory. Of course, you can't meddle in anyone's

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