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Burlesque

Lux Radio Theatre · June 15, 1936 · 59 min · 9,268 words

The transcript of “Burlesque”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 15, 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 15th. The Lux Radio Theater from its new home on Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California brings you Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler in Balesque. Lux presents Hollywood. Tonight you will meet such great personalities as Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Cecil B. DeMille, Daniel Bromen, George Barnes and many others.

Among the many distinguished guests in our brilliant audience tonight, I see from here one of Paramount's directors is to Chester Franklin and his wife. Mr. Franklin is the director of Sequoia, the picture now in production and also Catherine DeMille, Lloyd Plantages, Francis Langford, Eileen Pringle and Gloria Swanson. Welcome all of you.

This entertainment is presented by the makers of Luxe Toilets soap, the beauty soap used by nine out of ten screen stars and by attractive women everywhere. As producer of the Lux Radio Theatre tonight and each Monday from now on, we welcome back Hollywood's famous pioneer director, a man who has made 62 of America's great motion pictures and has started more

great stars on their careers than any other producer in Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Things from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Less than a decade ago, the movies were voiceless. Stars has celebrated as Wallace Reed, Rudolf Valentino, Theta Barra, Lillian Gish, and Francis X Bushman had millions of admirers who knew them only

as silent shadows. We spoke of our business as the silver screen, but its silence was golden for many an actor and director. Then a man came along who had been built on Broadway as the greatest entertainer in the world.

With his first film, The Jazz Singer, he not only made pictures talk, he made them sing. And he made me make museum pieces of my faithful old silent cameras that had ground out so many successful feet of film.

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