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Lux Radio Theatre · June 29, 1936 · 59 min · 9,093 words
The transcript of “Irene”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 29, 1936. 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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Hollywood, California, Monday, June 29th. Lux Radio Theater presents Jeanette McDonald in Irene, a play with music. Lux presents Hollywood. Tonight, we bring you Jeanette McDonald, Regis Tumi, Cecil V. DeMille, D.W. Griffith, Cora Lab, and many others.
These behind the footlights. In front, seated in our audience, a host of Hollywood's most noted notables. The Lux Radio Theatre welcomes you all. This entertainment is presented by the makers of Lux Plates. These marvelously sheer flakes are used in Mr. DeMille's own studio, Paramount, and in other great Hollywood studios, because they keep fabrics and colors new looking longer.
And now our director. It has been truly said, this man has put the star in starting more famous screen performers screen performers than any other film executive. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Men make their greatest mistakes in picking women and horses. I once predicted that there would never be a hostelist carriage after
my room-made-of-college injured his hand trying to invent one. Manufacturers have made 63 million motor cars since then and horses are found mostly on merry-go-rounds. I also misjudged Jeanette McDonald early in her career. You would never suspect now that she was once just a Philadelphian with a purpose. There is nothing more grim than a little girl with red pigtails, ambition and determination and
Jeanette had all four of them. When I first heard her she'd been singing in Broadway reviews. She sent me a telegram asking for the leading row in Madam Satan. I didn't know much about her, but was convinced she was not the one I wanted for the part. She sent me more and more telegrams. Telling me the best thing I could do was to put her on
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