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Lost Horizon

The Campbell Playhouse · December 3, 1939 · 51 min · 7,121 words

The transcript of “Lost Horizon”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast December 3, 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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The makers of Campbell's chute present the Campbell Playhouse. Orson Well produces. Good evening, as is Orson Well. Tonight we take you to Shangri-La in the Valley of the Blue Moon.

You may not believe this story, but ladies and gentlemen, remember please that ever since the human race was articulate, men have returned with tales of such a place to Shangri-La. later than last step. Always they've been doubted but never yet improved as their stories were untrue. And so tonight we bring you James Hilton's lost horizon and as our guest of the evening

this secret glory. Before our story begins before we move on into the future as embodied in the earthly paradise of Shangri-La, Ernest Chappell invited us to heart back for just a moment when occasion at 2 and here he is. An occasion or two ladies and gentlemen went dinner and the choice of a main dinner dish were especially important. Perhaps it

was a birthday celebration or a wedding anniversary and you were eating out. Together you consulted the main news, looked up and... Well dear, this is your occasion. What looks good to you? Let's have chicken shall we?

How good to me. Oh here's our way to now. And then when important company was coming to dinner at your house. But what shall we have for dinner darling? I say let's have chicken. That's something everybody likes.

Let's have chicken. Haven't you said those very words yourself many and many a time when you wanted to enjoy or to serve in a specially fine dinner? I'll wait till you have because there's no disputing the facts, but just about all of us do have an exceptional liking for chicken in one form or another.

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