Lux Radio Theatre

Skid Brown and Bonnie Smith are a burlesque team in a small Midwestern town, and their stage life is strained by Skid's restlessness and his flirtation with a rival performer, Marco. Skid is offered a chance on Broadway, and Bonnie's loyalty and ambitions are tested as the two drift apart. This is the Lux Radio Theatre's 1936 broadcast of Burlesque, a dramatization starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, and it aired on June 15, 1936. The episode follows the pair through a backstage quarrel, a surprise telegram and Skid's departure for New York.

With Skid Brown, Bonnie Smith, Lefty, Marco, Maisie, Barney, Max Levy, Harvey Howell.

Listen for: Skid's telegram from Manhattan and Bonnie's quarrel with him over his future.

First aired on June 15, 1936.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Nick Charles, a retired private detective, is approached at a Christmas Eve gathering in New York by Dorothy Winant, whose inventor father Clyde Winant has vanished without a word. Her worry draws Nick into a search, and the trail quickly grows darker when Julia Wolf, Winant's secretary, is found dead. This Lux Radio Theatre presentation adapts the story of The Thin Man, a film version directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and stars William Powell as Nick and Myrna Loy as his wife Nora. The episode was broadcast from Hollywood on June 8, 1936, and the cast includes Minna Gombell and Porter Hall. Nick and Nora move between the nightclub, the Winant household and Julia Wolf's apartment as the evidence grows more tangled.

With Nick Charles, Nora Charles, Dorothy Winant, Clyde Winant, Julia Wolf, Herbert McCauley, Joe Morelli, Mimi Wyman.

Listen for: Nick's wry banter with Nora and the growing questions about Julia Wolf's death

First aired on June 8, 1936.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Legionnaire Tom Brown is a private in the foreign legion stationed at Algiers, where a cabaret singer named Amy Jolie has arrived from Europe. Amy takes a job at the Cafe Marigot, and Tom becomes drawn to her, drawing the anger of his superior, Adjutant Caesar, who has his own interest in her. Lux Radio Theatre presents the romantic melodrama The Legionnaire and the Lady, broadcast on June 1, 1936, from Hollywood, starring Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable. Caesar presses charges against Tom for insubordination, and Tom is placed under arrest. Tom suspects that Caesar is planning to have him killed in the desert.

With Tom Brown, Amy Jolie, Adjutant Caesar, Stuart, Monsieur Lebessier, Blimey, Manuel, Sergeant.

Listen for: Tom's warning from Caesar's threat and his suspicion that he will be shot in the desert

First aired on June 1, 1936.

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Dulcy Smith, a well-meaning but scatterbrained wife, invites a houseful of weekend guests to help her husband Gordon's business career. Her plan is to win over the powerful businessman Charles Forbes, whose share in a jewelry combine Gordon needs. Dulcy also invites a moving picture writer, Vincent Leach, hoping he will romance Forbes's daughter Angela, while a wealthy stranger, Schuyler Van Dyke, arrives unexpectedly. Dulcy's eager matchmaking and schemes begin to tangle as the weekend unfolds. This Lux Radio Theatre production stars Zasu Pitts and Jean Lockhart, and the play is adapted from George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly's Broadway comedy. The broadcast aired on October 28, 1935.

With Dulcy Smith, Gordon Smith, Willie, Charles Forbes, Mrs. Forbes, Angela Forbes, Schuyler Van Dyke, Vincent Leach.

Listen for: Dulcy's increasingly disastrous attempts to help Gordon's business and to match Angela with Vincent Leach

First aired on October 28, 1935.

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