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Alexander Graham Bell

Lux Radio Theatre · May 14, 1945 · 55 min · 9,427 words

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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Donamichi and June Dupre in Alexander Graham Bell. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Mitchell Leisons. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Since last Monday night, our country is shared in the great victory in Europe. Yesterday in keeping with President Truman's wishes, America offered up its thanks to Almighty God for this great step toward universal peace.

And now through work and prayer we are dedicating ourselves, each in his own allotted task, wherever we may be, to a victorious prosecution of the war with Japan, so the complete peace may come soon.

In the past few days especially, the telephone wires of the world have performed a momentous service in distributing the news. At the San Francisco Conference, an international exchange is handling over a dozen switchboards, 12 to 15,000 calls a day in 45 languages, which gives you some idea of a posthumous role that Alexander Graham Bell is playing in the world today.

Our play tonight from the 20th Century Fox Screen Epic is the life of Alexander Graham Bell with Donamichi and the title role that he made famous on the screen. With Donamichi as the lovely and appealing June to pray, as the fiancé and wife who helped the infectious young inventor through those early years of trial and trial, failure and

success. In a sense, our story is the saga of America, with its opportunity for achievement in this free and fair land. The American urge toward better and better ways of doing things. Among the many little things that we do better are such modern economical conveniences as luxe flakes.

Indeed, it is your recognition of this fact, and your continued use of luxe flakes for your dishes and washables, it raises this curtain every Monday night, and it presents this evening Alexander Graham Bell, with Donamichi in the title role, and June to pray as Mabel Hubbard. Our curtain rises on the first act. It's a wintery evening in Boston, 1873. On

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