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Only Angels Have Wings

The Campbell Playhouse · February 25, 1940 · 58 min · 8,964 words

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Here's the Campbell's Loop, present the Campbell Playhouse, Boston Wells, producer. Good evening, this is Orson Wells. Our offering for tonight deals with those fabulous creatures

who are rapidly becoming a race apart, the professional flyers of the world. While not exactly unheralded and unsung, not that is in regard to their spectacular conquest of the air of the air in which they span whole continents and oceans without pause or stop.

But in such everyday routine affairs of getting the mail through, no matter how inaccessible a destination, how menacing the elements, it's a fact that their achievements have taken much too much for granted. But tonight we deal with such a group of men.

In this instance, flying all over a South American republic whose capital is here called Baranka, themselves see nothing more unusual or heroic in what they're doing than if there were so many well so many radio producers only angels have wings as the title of our offering still remembered happily by those who thought there's a

Columbia picture production with Harry Grant G. Knott and Richard Bossomis I guess not tonight is the beautiful and animated young lady from Hollywood who has rapidly worked away into the affections of all of us for the number of distinguished and memorable characterizations.

Miss Joan Glendale. Before I start against Mr. Ernest Chapel would like a word that the ladies especially Chapel Sir. Thank you all some well and I'll be direct them to the point. Tell me. Do you still go to the trouble of making vegetable soup at your house?

Frankly, Mr. Chapel, I do. When it comes to the other suits, I serve Campbell's but my mother and her mother before I understand that and making vegetable soup is the sort of a tradition in your family.

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