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Dragonwyck
Lux Radio Theatre · 1946 · 56 min · 8,049 words
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presents Hollywood. The Lutz Radio Theatre brings you Jean-Germi and Vincent Price in Dragon Wick. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealy. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. If I should offer any one of you a kingdom, I am sure you'd accept it. And that's how a certain section of our country was settled.
Under Dutch rule in the 1600s, wealthy Hollenders were offered vast estates along the Hudson River as an inducement to come to America. Over these land-grants or patrunes ships, as they were called, the patrunes had absolute authority, and many of them ruled until the middle of the 19th century, a unique phase of Americana that forms the background of
tonight's play. 20th Century's Fox Screen hit Dragon Week. We are happy to have the fine stars of the picture. Jean Tierney, in one of her greatest dramatic roles, and Vincent Price, in the part that raised him to well-deserved Stodden. Speaking of early Dutch settlers, I have here a snapshot of a very recent visit from Holland. She sent it to me as evidence
of how Lux flakes can keep those neat Dutch costumes sparkling clean. And I wish that all our listeners could see the photograph itself. An attractive girl and a typical Dutch outfit complete from large white cap to flower embroidered yolk I believe it's called and apron. I'd say it was a tribute not alone to Lux flakes but to the discriminating taste of people who
who have always been world famous for their cleanliness and tidiness. New York City, 1844. In a suite of the ultra fashionable after-house, Elpham Wells and his daughter await the arrival of a man they had never met.
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