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My Sister Eileen

Lux Radio Theatre · July 5, 1943 · 56 min · 10,432 words

The transcript of “My Sister Eileen”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast July 5, 1943. 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 Radio Theater brings to Rogerland Russell, Brian O'Hern and Janet Blair in My Sister Eileen with Aqim Tamiroff. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil P. DeMille. Ladies and Hollywood ladies and gentlemen, Eep and Hard of New York City is a strange foreign country called Greenwich Village.

The inhabitants are painters and longshoremen, sculptors, schoolteachers and sockbrokers. It's a place where the normal seems eccentric, and any dark night a shadowy character may tap you on the shoulder and try to sell you a poem or a painting.

The strange adventures of two girls from the Middle West who settled down in this never-neverland kept Broadway audiences laughing for about two years. The play was called My Sister Eileen. Columbia studio made the picture and it's still making Eileen famous in theaters throughout the world.

Uh, Rogland Russell, Brian Hearn, and Janet Blair all gave delightful performances on the stream, and the three of them lend the authentic touch to our production tonight, with a keen timir of heading our supporting cast.

Until the opening performance at any play, no one can predict a hit in the theatre. That's because art is unfortunately not so predictable as science, but things happen rather differently with a product like luck's flick.

designed with precision beforehand to do the things that are sure to make a hit. I wish the same scientist could work out a way to tell me how the public will receive a picture. Maybe it can't be done in show business, but they've certainly taken the guesswork out of housework. You're not guessing when you use luck's like. Now tonight's gay comedy, my sister Eileen, starring Roslyn

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