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Lux Radio Theatre · June 29, 1942 · 58 min · 8,635 words
The transcript of “The Champ”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 29, 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. The Luck's radio theatre brings you Wallace Berry in the Champ with Josephine Hutchinson, Noah Berry and Bobby Larson. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
The scene is a rushing crowd stream deep in the heart of Wyoming. The time late afternoon and a burly looking man in old clothes is patiently casting a fly in likely-looking pools. The trout are ignoring him completely.
I think it partly due to this lack of cooperation from the trout that we were able to lure while our spery back to the hustle and bustle of Hollywood. The bait we used was a play called The Champ, adapted from a Metro-Godron-Mayer picture in which Wally gave one of his most memorable performances. Just before this brief vacation, our star finished another picture
at Metro Gogrenmayer with the intriguing title, Jackass Mail. Tonight in the Champ, we've surrounded him with a fine cast that includes Josephine Hutchinson, Noah Berry and Bobby Lawson. The Champ is an inspiring story of a father and his boy, a prize fighter and his son who face the world and fight the good fight together as a team they're invincible because the bond of
devotion between them can stand all the tough luck the world throws their way. This drama is a tribute to the courage and stout hearts of all champions from 8 to 80, and so I know it will fool both you and those American boys in the armed forces who hear this program far from home. Putting those armed forces on wheels and wings is going to keep
American industry working day and night for a long time to come. There will be a smaller supply of goods for sale on the home front. And that means we've got to make things last. In the case of stockings, rayon, wool and other washable fabrics, that's a job made to order for luxe flakes. And the luxe way of doing the job has been tested in two kinds of scientific
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