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Magic Town

Lux Radio Theatre · December 15, 1947 · 61 min · 9,675 words

The transcript of “Magic Town”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast December 15, 1947. 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 presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Luck's Flake, bring you the Luck Radio Theater, starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman in Magic Town. Tonight the Luck Radio Theater comes to you from Hollywood as usual, but your producer speaks to you from Washington, D.C.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. William Keeley. Greetings from Washington, ladies and gentlemen. This morning I started shooting my forthcoming picture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and that is why I come to you tonight from Washington, D.C. and rest assured that nothing less imperative could keep me from being on your stage in person, especially at tonight's

performance. For Magic Town, I think, is one of the season's most refreshing screen hits, and should be doubly rewarding with the two stars of this RKO release, James Stewart and Jane Wyman. I won't give away the plot except to say that it's based on a unique and typically American phenomenon, the public opinion poll, which sooner or later ferrets out our taste in everything from radio

to a robot. Of course, one national poll that goes on every day is your selection of the things you buy, from a seat of the theatre to a box of soap flakes at the store. And when it comes to the latter, your preference for luck reflects not only on the product, but on you yourselves. For every time you ask for luck, you're casting your vote for a better,

more discriminating way to care for nice things. It's curtain time, and we present Act 1 of Robert Riskin's production, Magic Town, starting James Stewart as Ripsmith and Jane Wyman as Mary Peterman. Ripsmith got out of the Army.

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