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Manpower

Lux Radio Theatre · March 16, 1942 · 58 min · 10,002 words

The transcript of “Manpower”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast March 16, 1942. 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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Luck presents Hollywood. Luck's radio theater brings you every G Robinson, Marlene Dietrich and George Bath in Manpower. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cettle B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

The hurricane blows, the lightning strikes without warning. Sleep cuts down like a knife, and the lifeblood of the nation, electric power is cut off. night or day in any kind of weather, manpower goes into action. Perched high in the air, inches from death, the lion crews do the jobs that keep the wheels of defense plants rolling,

that keep the lights burning, that keep your radio alive, this very moment. Somewhere in America right now, they're fighting a storm. So tonight, we salute these soldiers of the night with a play adapted from the Warner Brothers picture, Manpower, starring Edward G. Robinson, George Rath and Malena Dipri. These same fine players who made it a hit on

the screen. George Rath, incidentally, is busy producing shows himself these days, boxing and wrestling shows for the boys in the armed forces. As the new National Sports Chairman of the Hollywood Victory Committee, he's enlarging his sports program to reach every camp in the country.

Manpower is a grammar at high tension, a story of men who live on a diet of danger, and a woman who finds her destiny at their side. Exciting certainly but real too, because excitement like this makes the world go round.

I think manpower is a player you'll enjoy, but don't let the title fool you. wouldn't get very far without woman power. I don't think we would either. The hand that rocks the cradle also raises the curtain here in the Lux Radio Theatre by buying Lux toilet soap. Woman power is getting to be evident in every department of American

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