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One Sunday Afternoon

Lux Radio Theatre · August 24, 1936 · 59 min · 10,142 words

The transcript of “One Sunday Afternoon”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast August 24, 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, August 24th. The Lux Radio Theater presents Jack O'Kee and Helen 12 Trees in one Sunday afternoon. Lux presents Hollywood. Tonight you will meet Hollywood through such famous personalities as Jack O'Kee, Helen 12 Trees, Alan Hale, Cecil B. DeMille, Agnes Ayres, Mrs. Evelyn Ophiel, and Mr. Lewis Silver's conductor of the Lux Radio Theater Orchestra,

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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play begins one quiet Sunday afternoon in a small Missouri town. So does the story of tonight's star, Jack Oakey, only in Jack's case the afternoon wasn't so quiet.

He claims he yelled louder than any baby born in Sedalia, Missouri. But he says he had a reason for yelling. He arrived just too late for Sunday dinner. Jack spent most of his boyhood in Oklahoma, but accompanied his mother to New York when she joined the faculty of the Scudder School for Girls. New Yorkers didn't care for his

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