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The Talk of the Town

Lux Radio Theatre · May 17, 1943 · 59 min · 9,774 words

The transcript of “The Talk of the Town”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast May 17, 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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Lux presents Hollywood. It's Radio Theatre brings you Cary Grant, Gene Arthur, and Ronald Coleman in The Talk of the Town. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Good things come in small packages, but better things often come in big ones. And three stars like Cary Grant, Gene Arthur, and Ronald Coleman make a colossal bundle of entertainment. And that's what we've got tonight in a play called The Talk of the Town.

It was over Columbia Pictures that they had the idea of co-starring these fine players and the right story to do it with. And with the same formula, we can't go wrong in the Lux Radio Theatre.

The story is unique, as you might expect, with an interplay of comedy, drama and romance that doesn't leave room for a dull moment. When he grant unjustly accused of crime, Gene Arthur, his only defender, and Ronald Coleman, knowing justice in books but not in people.

Make a triangle that should be the talk of any town. Suppose a Broadway producer were to put the names of Ronald Coleman, Gene Arthur, and Kerry Grant in front of his theater as Lux Flakes makes it possible for us to do all over the nation tonight.

I'll make a quick guess that he'd discover his theater was sold out months in advance at 660 or so a ticket. The line at our box office runs from Greenland's icy mountains to Hollywood and Vine, but the ticket don't cost a cent.

And every seat is the best seat in the house. The only box office return is your loyal support of our product, Luxflakes, and once you've tried it, you will make it a habit for its own sake.

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