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1935 . . . the late Lupe Velez and Santos Ortega, now a familiar radio actor, in "Broken Wing.''
Thete reminiicenKi ot Lux Radio Theatre are written for Radio Mirror by the pror-hoit of the program, which ia heard Mondays at 9 P.M. EST, on CBS ■
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Past and present, the veteran Radio Theatre is
IF a train does not pull out of a depot on schedule it pulls out after schedule. If a bus lags behind its timetable, it is not removed from the road. If a passenger plane does not take off on time, it takes off late. And if a ship does not sail the day of announcement, another day will do.
In virtually every activity involving human effort— on land, in the air and on sea, if you please — there is a second chance or a late start. In my nearly three years as producer and host of the Lux Theatre, J have learned that radio — live radio, such as Lux, of course — is a breathtaking exception to the rule of margin of error.
Never was it more painfully apparent than on the day, three hours before airfime, when it was discovered that the permission of author Sally Benson had not been obtained for adaptation of "Sunday Dinner for a Soldier."
It was too late even to mimeograph a new script, let alone time to rewrite another motion picture for
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nsible for some of radio's most glittering moments
radio presentation. Already there had been five rehearsals, aggregating 700 man hours of preparation, as was the custom on the most rehearsed dramatic show on the air.
Somewhere in the United States was Sally Benson, the one person who could authorize the announced broadcast. Just where, nobody knew. The best that could be learned from the studio which had produced the film was the telephone number of Miss Benson's agent in New York City. A nearly hysterical long distance call elicited the information that Miss Benson might be at her ranch 50 miles inland from Santa Barbara, California.
Finally, she was tracked down through Information. Yes, a telephone was listed for a Sally Benson residing near Santa Barbara. But it had been disconnected. She did not wish to be disturbed at her retreat.
Despair pervaded the CBS Playhouse on Vine Street. There was one wild (Continued on page 84)
1937 . . . Janet Gayjior, Robert Montgomery in n
production of the record-making "A Star is Born."
. Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers and alt the that went with tuneful "Lady in the Dark."
Robert Taylor, Mr. Keighley ond Katharine Hepburn ready lo go on "Undercurrent." Note Oscar, the m on key -puis te arrangement between the stars; In.— or it — is there to be clutched, poked and even eat on hy tense performers, if any.