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Lux Radio Theatre · May 26, 1941 · 57 min · 9,310 words
The transcript of “Virginia City”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast May 26, 1941. 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. Brings you Errol Pinn and Martha Scott in Virginia City. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
Man's endless quest of gold has taken him to the ends of the earth, along a trail marked with the mansions of those who succeeded, and with the bleached bones of those who failed. Fabulous cities have risen overnight and died as quickly.
Most fabulous of all was the roaring Nevada town Virginia City, home of the Comstock Loald, and mother of more wealth than man had ever seen before in one place. Tonight the Virginia City of 80 years ago comes to life in our play starring Errol Flynn and Martha Scott, Errol playing the same part he had in the Warner Brothers Picture. It's a thrilling story of a little
known episode in the war between the states, a battle for treasure fought by those who served their flags in secret. But for the man and the girl of our drama, the stakes were greater than gold. They were love and life itself.
Pioneering in the Old West was exciting, and American women did more than their share of the job and a good deal less than their share of ordinary conveniences. All the gold in Virginia City couldn't have bought the mckake of luck's toilets open. Because it took plenty of pioneering to develop that tool. Pioneering both in science and the art of beauty. The result
is a product dedicated to the great-granddaughters of those hardy feminine pioneers, and incidentally, one that helps to keep them better-looking longer than their great-grandmothers. The women of the twentieth century may forget the pioneering that it took to develop luck's toilet soap, but they never forget it's one luxury that's a bargain, and now we have
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