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The Campbell Playhouse · April 21, 1939 · 58 min · 8,837 words
The transcript of “Private Lives”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast April 21, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Campbell Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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McCamber Frayhouse, Barson Well, producers. The reasons to go at startle London and delight in New York while among their dictionaries and bring out such adjectives as scintillating, gossamer, gleaming and hilerious.
Much delight no o'clock to look backward a few seasons and find his players become acclaimed as one of the most famous and lasting of modern comedies. It's been played all over the world and extensively, although so far not successfully, imitated.
Mr. Coward is an astute theatrical observer and underneath its surface brilliant. He has managed to catch the essential pattern of a modern love story. In writing about private lies Mr. Coward has said, it was more difficult and full of pitfalls than anything I've ever attempted.
But fortunately for me, I had the inestable advantage of place, and so three-quarters of the battle was won before the curtain went up. Tonight we're sharing Mr. Coward's. We welcome as our guest star to the Campbell's.
Loved each other so intensely and so uproariously that they found it hard to live together and impossible to live apart. First on behalf of us. At this very moment, if you could peek into thousands of ice boxes all over America, you would see cans bearing the familiar red and white label of Campbell's.
But these cans would be Campbell's tomato juice. Yes, Campbell's tomato juice made by the makers of Campbell's tomato soup Campbell's tomato soup and made with the same fact that Campbell's has become the largest selling tomato juice of all within a few short years. There must be many of you who have not yet tried it. If you are one of these may I suggest that you get
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