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Dinnerat Eight
The Campbell Playhouse · February 18, 1940 · 59 min · 10,894 words
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The makers of Campbell's suits present the Campbell Playhouse, horse and wells producer. Good evening. We're offering tonight the celebrated dinner at eight is among other things. An object lesson for the overwhelming number of people who believe that dinner preferably to be called supper and primarily a meal to be eaten at the close of day for the purpose of sustenance against hunger
is to be shared except on rare occasions only with the members of their intimate family. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, however, setting their play in the semi-rareified atmosphere of the semi-upper sturcles of New York society preferred to deal with dinner as an almost unimportant part of a weird social proceeding that can't be known as a dinner party, actually
whenever shown the dinner in dinner at eight. But we are shown the highly involved maneuverings necessary to bring the dinner at eight dinner party into existence, along with a colorful incident in the intertwining lives of those who finally participated in it, including Mr. Larry Renault, the once so great film star who made the greatest appearance of his life in the long run by not appearing at all at
the dinner party at which he would have been at least a featured player. Our guest stars tonight are three. Marjorie Rambo, Header Hopper, and Lucille Ball. Miss Hopper, of course, was a distinguished actress before ever she branched out into a present combination career of acting and columning.
Miss Lucille Ball, as the beautiful and talented young lady who was positioned in Hollywood, is becoming increasingly more important. And Marjorie Rambo, certainly one of the first talents of the theater, is now carving out for herself a new career in motion pictures.
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