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The transcript of “Runyon 4x-xx-xx ep04 The Lemon Drop Kid”, an episode of The Damon Runyon Theatre. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Damon Runyon Theatre plays The Damon Runyon Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Damon Runyon Theatre. Once again, the Damon Runyon Theatre brings you another story by the master of storytellers, Damon Runyon, and this one, the Lemon Drop Kid. And to tell it to you, here is Broadway.
Thanks. The other day I run into regret the horse player, and he tells me that he runs into the Lemon Drop Kid, and the kid sends regards to me. It is a long time since I see the kid, maybe a year.
It is that long since the night in Mindy's when... But that is getting ahead of the story of the Lemon Drop Kid. One that is more than somewhat full of what the Broadway critics like to call, Human Drama.
If you like, I will tell it to you in a minute. And now, back to the Damon Runyon Theatre and the famous story, The Lemon Drop Kid. It's a matter of four or five years to an August afternoon and the racetrack at Sarah Coates, which is a spot in New York State very pleasant to behold.
He also told a young guy by the name of Lemon Drop Kid, who is called the Lemon Drop Kid, because he always has a little sack of Lemon drops in the side pocket of his coat, and is always munching at sea.
Now the Lemon Drop Kid's business is telling a tale, which means he will spot somebody at the racetrack and give them a tip, for which he expects to be cut in on the lettuce when it is gathered.
On this day the kid and I are saying that the rail, the kid is looking gloomy, finally turns to me and says as fun. Broadway, have you ever been broke? At times the condition with me is somewhat of a chronic disease.
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