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The Last of Mrs Cheyney

Lux Radio Theatre · May 11, 1942 · 57 min · 10,118 words

The transcript of “The Last of Mrs Cheyney”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast May 11, 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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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Norma Schiller, Waterpigeon and Adolph Marjou in the last of Mrs. Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, your producers, Mrs. Settle B. Demiels. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to tell you that tonight's Lux Radio broadcast, as well as those in weeks to come, will be heard by American armed forces

throughout the world by shortwave and other special facilities. I've noticed you, prestigious man, but I haven't been walking under any ladders lately, either. In fact, I've got my fingers crossed right now because every time Norma Shearer has been scheduled to appear at this microphone for the last six years, something has happened to cancel the date.

But all things come to him who waits if he waits long enough. So this week we borrowed Norma from the cast of the Metro Gogrenmayer picture Her Cardboard Lover, along with Walter Pigeon from the same studios Mrs. Minneva, and if nothing happens between now and curtain time, you will hear them starring with Adolph Marjou in The Last

of Mrs. Cheney. Our play packed in the customers for a solid season on Broadway, and Hollywood on two different occasions found material for a hit in this brilliant comedy. Mr. Moshira starred in one of the picture versions herself. Tonight, as Mrs. Chaney, she had a part made to order for an actress of beauty, wit, and charm. And that, of course, is Norm

Moshira. For this hour each week, we like to think that we're helping a whole nation forget the problems of the moment and relax in another world. The world of the theatre, to laugh a little, to thrill to find drama, and tomorrow to return to the task at hand with new determination. That's the job of this Lux Radio Theatre,

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