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Lux Radio Theatre · March 18, 1946 · 54 min · 6,541 words
The transcript of “A Tale of Two Cities”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast March 18, 1946. 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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On the Earth history we proudly present Hollywood. Radio theatre, bring you Ronald Coleman and Heather Angel in a tale of two cities. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William C.
Reading from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, in Paris just a few months ago, I passed daily through the Place de la Concorde, Where, during the French Revolution, stood a symbol of the violence of that death of period, the guillotine, everywhere word-medicine, experiencing, like myself, that lingering sense of great events long past but not forgotten.
Something Charles Dickens must have felt on his first visit to Paris 100 years ago. We present the immortal story it inspired, a tale of two cities. one of the screams outstanding actors, Ronald Coleman, in one of literature's most moving and dramatic roles, a role by the way that he created on the screen. And with him we present
a talented and lovely Heather Angels. It's time for our curtain and the first act of a tale of two cities, starring Ronald Coleman as Sidney Carvin with Heather Angel as Usy Manette and Janus Scott has Madame Le Farr.
Caris 1793, the French Revolution is over. The cause is won, but the bloodshed has only started. The reign of terror weep through the land in all its fury, and each day Madame Le Guillotine is fed her share of human life.
The dripping blade rises and falls, and the crowd counts in monotonous rhythm as each noble head rolls to the ground. The night rises again and sweeps downwards. When she collides in a single day and more to come and more and more until night ball draws a curtain on the trees.
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