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Elmer the Great

Lux Radio Theatre · October 5, 1936 · 59 min · 9,734 words

The transcript of “Elmer the Great”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast October 5, 1936. 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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Hollywood California Monday October 5th. The Lux Radio Theatre presents Elmer the Great, starring Joey Brown with June Travis. Lux presents Hollywood. Tonight, the Lux Radio Theatre from its home on Hollywood Boulevard brings you Joey Brown, June Travis, Cecil V. DeMille, Max Reinhardt and Lewis Silver's, and from New York, Carl Hubble and Lou Gehrig

fresh from their deeds in the world series. Gathered here to witness our performance audience filled with Hollywood notables. Welcome to the Lux Radio Theatre. We can think of no higher recommendation for Lux Flakes than the fact that these sheer, marvelously effective flakes are used by all the leading picture studios here in Hollywood for wardrobe protection. And

now the producer of the Lux Radio Theatre takes his place at the microphone. Motion Pictures most eminent director, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, Ladies and gentlemen, among the things so its Joey Brown is distinguished, is the singular void between his upper and lower lips and his ability to play baseball.

Both of these are probably the result of Joe's belief in the old Spanish proverb, a closed mouth catches no flies. But Joe caught flies off an arm for 10 years as a member of minor league baseball teams.

Later he played exhibition ball with the Boston Red Sox. For three years he kept a bench warm for the New York Yankees and today is the owner of a semi-professional team in Los Angeles. But long before Joe ever struck out as a ball player, he struck out for a career in the circus.

When only nine years old, he became an acrobat. He was known as master Joe, the boy wonder. His aerial feats were not limited to acrobatics, however. In 1907, at Montreal, he was persuaded to make a flight in an airplane glider.

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