Larry Darrow, a restless young veteran, is engaged to Isabel Bradley, and the two are moving through a Chicago society party given by Elliot Templeton, an older man who has a sophisticated view of the world. Larry is unwilling to take the conventional path of a steady job and money, and tensions with Isabel grow as he struggles to find meaning in life. The episode is a radio adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge, presented on the Lux Radio Theatre in 1948 and starring Ida Lupino and Mark Stevens. The episode recording is taken from the broadcast of October 18, 1948.
Characters: Larry Darrow, Isabel Bradley, Elliot Templeton, Louisa, Sophie Nelson, Bob Marlow, Gray MacTurran
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Twenty-five seconds until 7 p.m. V-U-L-O-V-A, vulnerable watch time. vulnerable invite you to see his excellent face. America's greatest watch value. Leader of your jeweler's 1948 watch parade. Next on K-N-X, the race is veg with Mark Stevens and Idyll of Dino.
Stay tuned for my friend, Irma, at eight. Rock presents Hollywood! Leave the brothers company, the makers of luck toilet soap, bring you the luck radio theater. Starring Ida Lupino and Mark Stevens in The Razor's Ed.
Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Geeley. Meeting from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen, we're always proud to present a play based on one of Thomas Edmond's stories. because his name is sure Garst of Romance and Mystery and Adventure.
No living writer has been enjoyed more by the reading public, and as a result, Mr. Morn's novels are invariably on the bestseller list. Tonight in the 20th Century Fox picture of the razor's edge, we have one of his masterpieces, with Idalapino and Mark Stevens as our star.
In book form, the razor's edge shows something more than two million copies, and Daryl Epidonic's film production was seen by perhaps 40 million more, truly a best seller. And tonight, when 20 or 25 million people hear the story again, it brought to you by another best seller, Lux Euler's Soul.
And like any best seller, quality is responsible for the success of Lux Euler's Soul. The curtain rises on the laser's hiderlopeano as Isabelle and Mark Stevens as well. These are my recollections of a very unusual young man, with whom I was thrown into contact with long interests.
He's not famous. He'd even made me the funniest life is over. He will leave no more place for this surgeon on this earth than a stone thrown in a river, these are the surface of the water.
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I didn't see no, we'll soon be seeing him in the 20th century box, but you're rowed out, croissant with Cornell Wild. March Stevens, it says, for the courtesy of 20th century box, producers of, when my baby smiles at me, starring Betty Gravel and Dan Bailey.
Third in our cast tonight, were Ettia Barrier and Thomas F. Marn, Joseph Crimes and Templeton, Frances Robinson and Sophie, and Jeff Chandler, Herbert Butterfield, Bill John Stone, Eleanor Audley, Alex Jerry, Rob Sudan, and Eddie Ma.
Our music was directed by Louis Silver. This is your answer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us again next Monday night to hear Walter Pigeon and Deborah Carr in The Secret Heart. Now, Richard tasting cakes, fries are any other type shortening.
Fries, amazing cake improver, takes guesswork and hard work out of cake making. Tries, fries, one bold method for glorious cakes. For all of you bacon, fries, be welcome. Sir Mr. Next Monday night the illustrious theatre presentation of The Secret Heart, starring Walter Pigeon and Deborah Carr.
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