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The Voice of Bugle Ann

Lux Radio Theatre · July 6, 1936 · 59 min · 8,686 words

The transcript of “The Voice of Bugle Ann”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast July 6, 1936. 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 July 6th. Lux Radio Theatre presents Lionel Barramar in the voice of Bugaland with Porter Hall and Ann Shirley. Lux presents Hollywood with Lionel Barramar and Shirley, Hal Roach, Desobe De Mill, Ruth Waterbury and many others, brought to you by the makers of Lux Toilets.

The beauty care used by nine out of ten screen stars and by so many attractive women everywhere. We also salute a distinguished audience. With us tonight, I see Eileen Pringle, Paula Stone, and Kerry Grant.

Welcome to the Lux Radio Theater. As producer of the Lux Radio Theater, we present one of the most distinguished personages of the entertainment world. Producer of great screams spectacle, creator of stars. His name is known wherever motion pictures are seen.

Ladies and gentlemen, Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The history of the American theatre should be read by gaslight. Because it was by gaslight that its most colorful chapters were written. A popular song of the day was Two Little Girls in Blue.

Horskars were running on Broadway. Cherries was the place to eat after the theatre. Handsome cab scurried through Central Park. The fashionable figure was the hourglass fillewet. And Maurice Barramore, the most popular matinee idol of his day, was making the gay 90s gayer.

Among his contributions to the general uproar were three children. Lionel, Ethel and John. All three turned out to be handsome and extremely versatile artists. But it seems that in everything I've done, Lionel has preceded me.

We were the thoroughly unknown sons of famous parents. But when I went on the stage, Lionel was already there. When I started making pictures in 1913, he had been in the movies for years. When the screen switched from Torkis, he directed the first all-color, talking and singing film, the roguesang, starring Laurence Tippet.

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