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Young Man with a Horn

Lux Radio Theatre · March 3, 1952 · 54 min · 7,582 words

The transcript of “Young Man with a Horn”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast March 3, 1952. 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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Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux's toilet soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre. Starring Kirk Douglas, Patrice Weimar, and Joe Stafford in Young Man with a Horn. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Peeling.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. If I were asked to name a phase of our life that was typically American, I would immediately answer jazz. Music that began in small cabarets in Dixie land and spread to the orchestras of the nation. In tonight's play, Young Man with a Horn, we bring you the outstanding

one-er-brother's picture of a musician who played two kinds of music, one for his job and one for himself. And from the original cast, we have that dynamic actor Kirk Douglas, co-starring with two talented young ladies, singing star Joe Stafford and lovely Patrice Weimar.

In our story, the young man is fervently devoted to his music and his beloved horn. But most young men are fervently devoted to young ladies, particularly Lux girls. Lovely ladies who are devoted to Lux toilet soap but at fine and beauty care that keeps their complexions softer, smoother, deluxe facial way. Now the curtain rises on young man with a horn,

starring Kurt Douglas as Rick Martin, Patrice Y. Moore as Amy, and Joe Stafford as Joe Jordan. I played piano in a run-of-the-mill dance band. That's how I came to know Rick Martin. Rick is practically a legend now, so his story's worth telling. It's the story of the lonely man.

We're in Los Angeles a long time ago with a 10-year-old kid hanging around the door of a third-rate night club. Customers had all gone home and the band had started little jam session. They were neatly.

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