Loving
On Stage · September 30, 1953 · 29 min · 3,537 words
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Cathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. Elliot Lewis, two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each week in their own theater, starring in a repertoire of transcribed stories of their own and you're choosing.
Radios foremost players in Radios foremost play. Ladies and gentlemen, Elliot Lewis. Good evening. May I present my wife, Cathy? Good evening. To date here on stage, we've done all the types of plays that George Walsh describes every week in his very flattering opening announcement.
But there's one type of play he always leaves out because it's not really a play. It's a series of fragments, a series of short stories. But three short stories, fragments, should have something in common, a title, an idea, a manner of presentation.
And so tonight we present Loving by Arthur Ross, three short plays about, well, this is Perhaps there are only three kinds of people in the world. Those who are loved, those who are unloved, and the self-loved.
In miniature portraits, in small detail of the small moments of each of the three loves, we shall tell of just such a world divided into three parts. Our first story is about the self-loved. If there are 100 great actresses in the world, Jan Martin is not one of them.
But if there are 100 beautiful women in the world, Jan can be counted among their number. That's why she has no illusions about her fame as emotion-picture actress. She made sure excellent actors supported her, making it seem their talent was hers.
Bit her Lee and angrily, she clung to each step forward in her career. And with equal anger, she fought anything which seemed to detract from her beauty on the screen. or anyone who seemed to be attracting more attention than she and her pictures.
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