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Destroyer
Lux Radio Theatre · April 3, 1944 · 58 min · 10,011 words
The transcript of “Destroyer”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast April 3, 1944. 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. Theater brings you Edward G. Robinson, Dennis O'Keefe, and Marjorie Tettman in The Destroyer. Tonight, the Luck Radio Theater comes to you from Hollywood as usual. But your producer speaks to you from Washington, D.C.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tett will be the mill. Greetings from Washington, ladies and gentlemen. Greetings, in fact, from the general headquarters of the world. I came here last week for the official Washington preview of the story of Dr. Wessel.
A picture which has kept me busy for two years. But all the effort of those two years was amply rewarded by the audience at Constitution Hall on Saturday night. Their applause was a tribute to the courage of an unassuming country doctor who was there himself and a tribute to Gary Cooper who plays Dr. Wessel on the screen.
The Navy, from enlisted men to Admiral's, was there to do honor to his own heroes, and tonight in the Lux Radio Theater we honor the Navy again, because our play is the Columbia Action Hit destroyer.
You'll hear the same star who gave a thrilling performance on the screen, Edward G. Robinson, and with him we have Dennis O'Keefe and Marguerite Chapman. They say in the Navy that once a sailor gets out of destroyer, he never wants a sailor other kind of beauty. He calls the ship a tin can, but he loves her like a sweetheart.
You too fly after you hear tonight's play, which combines the fast-moving drama of battle at sea with a little fast-moving romance on land. Now, I don't know whether any romance is involved in the way the following incident came to us, but a girl in Los Angeles had sent us a portion of a letter he received from a corporal in Italy. It belongs in the war diary
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