The Shop Around the Corner

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Claudette Colbert and Donamichi in the shop around the corner. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In the summer, your producer's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Donamichi and Claudette Colbert. Summer arrived officially day before yesterday at 11.34am, so we've got Claudette and Don right here tonight. Since they were also right here last year about this time, I suggest we consider them a sign of the season, like the ball game on the corner lot or the first picnic.

You'll hear these two stars in the shop around the corner, adapted from the Metro Golden Mayor picture success. The play has an air of goodwill to it, a gay mood of laughter and romance that few motion pictures have matched.

It's a story of a little group of people who work together in a certain little shop around the corner. a kind of world in itself, whether it's a share of good and bad luck for everyone.

Usually, of course, the shop around any corner is where you get luck's flakes. But we had a letter the other day from a woman who didn't take any chances on finding it that close. She was going to Liberia, West Africa. So she prudently took some along.

And it pretty nearly got to the reputation of being a witch doctor. A few weeks ago, she writes, I decided to have a bedspread washed, so I took it and the box of locks to the native washman.

When he saw me put the lux flakes in the water and just switched them around, you should have seen his face. Then I put a few flakes on his hand and then a little water and told him to rub his hands.