Transcripts › Lux Radio Theatre
Lux Radio Theatre · December 14, 1942 · 59 min · 8,970 words
The transcript of “Algiers”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast December 14, 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.
Machine transcript (may contain errors).
Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Loretta Young and Charles Boye in Algiers with J. Carol Nash and Jean Lockhart. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. A few weeks ago an electric thrill swept the world.
When radio programs were interrupted by the news that American troops had landed at Algiers. Might we bring you one of the most exciting personal dramas that this exotic city ever spawned? The motion picture success, Algiers.
You'll hear Charles Boyer in his famous role at Pepe Lemoco, and the lovely Loretta Young is our co-star. J. Carol Nash and Jean Lockhart had a strong supporting cast. Algiers is a love story. Pepe Lemoco is a mysterious figure, moving swiftly through the colorful native quarter call the Casbah. Here's what Charles Collingwood said when he broadcast from Algiers right after
the American occupation. The Casbah is another city, a city within a city full of little houses and twisting narrow streets that run steeply uphill. By day it is crowded and picturesque. By night it is silent and mysterious. I got lost up there last night. There was no soul to be seen, only the green eyes of cats gleaming in the night, and the feeling that behind the
closed doors and shuttered windows there were eyes watching you pass. Mr. Collingwood talked to two American soldiers. One of them said, I've never seen anything like this except in pictures. The other one said, I've never seen anything like this period.
Of course, some people get that same reaction right here at home. The first time they see luck-splakes perform. It looks like magic that could happen only in a motion picture. You can see the scientists who have been working in their laboratories for many years to make our product what it is today. They probably do more laundry in the course of their scientific
206 more paragraphs, about 57 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listKeep listening with Potato Plus: every episode, on demand, from any moment.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listAll Lux Radio Theatre transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive
New channels, the best find from the archive, and what is coming up. One email a week.