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Ladies in Retirement

Lux Radio Theatre · September 27, 1943 · 59 min · 9,530 words

The transcript of “Ladies in Retirement”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast September 27, 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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Luck present Hollywood. The Luck's radio theater brings you Ida Lupino, Brian O'Hern, Dame Maywitti, and Edith Barrett in Ladies in Retirement. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil D. Demille. Ladies and gentlemen, Ida Lupino was born in London during an air raid.

The only style I know who began life in such stormy style. Of course, that was during the First World War when a bombing was done from Zeppelin. It was an exciting start to a career that hasn't had a dull moment since.

Tonight, she teamed with Brian Ahern, who's been acting in the big leagues for many seasons. The play is Ladies in Retirement. We had a long run on Broadway and then became a hit Columbia picture with idolopino Starr.

For general excellence, our supporting cast is hard to beat because it's headed by Dame Mayhitti and Edith Barrett. is currently playing a part for me at Paramount in the story of Dr. Wessel. Ladies in retirement is one of those plays an audience remembers for years.

It is strange and weird, compound of love and hate and hope and horror. Good theatre comes in many different forms, and Luxor Laxau brings you all of them. Looking for plays is like looking for new stars, there are almost no rules to guide the theatre.

And yet, there's more than luck in picking both of them. The men who sit for hours in darkened projection rooms looking at screen tests of potential solids all have their own yardsticks to measure the candidate.

One thing I always look for is a lovely confection, and the acted test comes when a girl's face is magnified many times in a close-up, but long before that close-up is made, They were made, wise starlets go into training with luck soil itself.

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