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Dodsworth
Lux Radio Theatre · April 12, 1937 · 45 min · 7,491 words
The transcript of “Dodsworth”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast April 12, 1937. 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 April 12th. The Lux Radio Theatre presents Walter Houston, Nan Sunderland and Faye Bainter in Dotsworth. Lux presents Hollywood, our stars, Walter Houston, Nan Sunderland, Faye Bainter, Gregory Gay and John Carradine.
Our guests, Sydney Howard, distinguished playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner and adapter of Dotsworth, and Walter Plunkett, one of Hollywood's best-known best-known custom designers. Our producer Cecil V DeMille, our conductor, Lewis Silvers. From our stage on Hollywood Boulevard, our stars, our guests, and our staff join me in a coast-to-coast greeting. As once again it's my privilege to say
welcome everyone to the Lux Radio Theatre. This program is brought to you by the makers of Lux Plates, those tissue-thin diamonds of soap that women everywhere used for their nice things. You undoubtedly have a box of lucks in the house right now, like other lucks radio theatre listeners. But have you a package out in the kitchen,
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So tomorrow and every day after, reach for the familiar blue box of lux plates as you start the dishes. And now, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille! Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Disregarding traditions has been the secret of many a man's success.
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