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Tom Dick and Harry

Lux Radio Theatre · September 8, 1941 · 60 min · 8,983 words

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MUT presents Hollywood. The LUX Radio Theatre brings you Ginger Rogers in Tom Dick and Harry, with Prejudice Meredith, George Murphy and Alan Marshall.

For mission for the use of the radio title, Tom Dick and Harry, has been specially granted to the LUX Radio Theatre this evening by the original radio team of Tom Dick and Harry, appearing on several network programs.

Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. reading from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. There was once a very rash producer who stood in front of his theatre on opening night and shook hands with his friends as they arrived to see the play.

He was rash because no producer ought to count on having any friends until the play is over and he heard them applause. But I take my chances and follow his example if that was possible, as the Lux Radio Theatre opens its eighth season tonight.

tonight. And there are five reasons why that wouldn't be a bit rash. Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshall and Burgess Meredith, in the hit screenplay, Tom Dick and Harry. Although Tom Dick and Harry is about our 350th radio production, and the picture I've just finished, Reap the Wild Wind, is my 66th. Your producer has lost none

of the thrill of a first night. Every time it's a brand new adventure, like a hurricane, experience can't help you a bit. What does help the Lux Radio Theatre is an audience that we feel is always on our side. An audience that never loses sight of the most important point of all. The fact that Lux Toilets' soap is the actual

cornerstone of this playhouse. Of course you know that you don't have to buy our product to listen to these plays. So we know that when you do keep buying it that pure white cake has justified all we've said about it. The proof of a soap is in the lala, just to the proof of the theatre, is in its place.

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