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Coney Island

Lux Radio Theatre · April 17, 1944 · 59 min · 9,057 words

The transcript of “Coney Island”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast April 17, 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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The Lux Radio Theater brings you Alan Ladd, Dorothee Lamour, and Chester Morris in Coney Island. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. And step right this way for an hour of mirth and melody and romance.

On the inside of this theater, a stupendous attraction. Straight from the bright lights of Hollywood. not one, not two, but three glittering stars. Well, I'm afraid as a barker, I can't really do justice to my subject.

But the simple facts are enough anyway. Because tonight we bring you Alan Ladd, Darla Fillamour and Chester Morris in the great 20th Century Fox musical hit, Coney Island. For all of you who put in a hard day's work, here's the perfect way to relax.

It won't solve a single post-war problem, and it has nothing to do with boundaries or politics. Coney Island is just pure unadulterated entertainment, where Alan Ladd and Chester Morris involved in a furious feud for the affections of Darathila Moore, and Darath A singing such catchy tunes of my boyhood as, put your arms around the honey and cuddle up a little closer.

I remember Coney Island, and the days when we traveled down New York Bay by boat to get there, or drove down Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn by horse and carriage. Of course that was some years B.L.F.

That's before luck's flake. I particularly remember how the bikers used to boast at the tremendous bargain they were offering with their few minutes of entertainment for ten or fifteen cents. I'm sure any one of them would have fainted immediately at the idea of presenting stars like Alan Lab, Dorothy LaMour and Chester Morris in tonight's play

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