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Lux Radio Theatre · February 16, 1942 · 59 min · 8,760 words
The transcript of “Blossoms in the Dust”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast February 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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Lutz presents Hollywood. Radio Theatre brings you Greer, Carson and Walter Pigeon in blossoms in the dust with Felix Bresshopper. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
Every city and town in America has a unsung heroes and heroines. Men and women who have devoted their lives to an ideal. They've worked without hope of wealth, without thought of glory. They're only reward the satisfaction of a job worth doing and well done.
Such a woman is the heroine of blossoms in the dust. Her ideal is a better world for the homeless children of today and tomorrow. And if you imagine that finding homes for babies is not a thrilling subject for a motion picture or radio play, believe me or wrong, because the Metro Golden Mayor picture stirred
the hearts of audiences all over the country. Both the picture and Greer-Garson's performance in it have been nominated for Academy Awards this year. And incidentally, the two stars who played blossoms in the dust on the screen, Greer-Garson and Walter Pigeon, are currently making another picture together, Mrs. Minifer, so we borrowed them from the Metro Golden Mayor sound stages for this drama of one woman's fight for other
women's children. And remember as you listen that this is the story of a real woman who is living and working today. The first duty of any theatre is to please its public. And that's just as true of this national theatre that Lux Flakes has made possible as it was true of the theatre in China 40 centuries ago, the theatre in Greece 25 centuries ago,
for the theatre of Shakespeare a little more than three centuries ago. A matter of fact, if the audience doesn't like to play, the actors are wasting their time. And this first axiom of the theatre applies to any other business, like making soap flakes, for instance.
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