Radio City Playhouse || (03) Of Unsound Mind | (08) Long Distance || July 17, 1948; August 23, 1948

01:21 .. Of Unsound Mind -- Written and directed by Harry W. Junkin and tells the chilling story of a heartless wife who attempts to drive her husband insane after he is recently cured of insanity.

29:45 .. Long Distance -- Frantic story of a young wife who spends her entire runtime trying to get a long-distance phone call through to California. She is desperately racing against time to save her husband from being executed in the electric chair.

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Lux Radio Theatre || Elmer, the Great (Joe E. Brown) || The Curtain Rises (Ginger Rogers, Warren William) || October 5, 1936; October 12, 1936

01:11 ... Elmer The Great -- Dung an intermission interview, Lou Gehrig predicts that the Yankees will win the World Series + Baseball story about a guy called Elmer Kane and his boss at the grocery store, Nelly Poole, who employs Elmer as a delivery driver. It begins in the Kane house in Gentryville Indiana, where Elmer’s brother can’t understand why his brother won’t sign for the New York Giants. Even Nelly thinks he shouldn’t pass up the opportunity. But what she doesn’t know is that Elmer is crazy about her and doesn’t want to go away ands leave her.

1:00:35 ... The Curtain Rises -- A shy woman decides to take acting lessons in order to play love scenes with her instructor. Ginger plays the part of Elsa Carling and Warren Williams is Ronald Phillips The play opens at a gay party which is taking place at Carol Stewarts New York penthouse. Everyone appears to be having a great time, everyone, that is, except Elsa Carling who is in the foyer putting her coat on. There is the suggestion of a tear in her eye and she is approached by the hostess who insists she mustn't leave. But Elsa is just as insistent that she should. As the door closes behind her the men are heard to comment. She’s too prim and proper and she ought to get rid of those spectacles.

Lux Radio Theatre || The Plutocrat (Wallace Beery) | September 28, 1936

Victor Young is interviewed and plays one of his compositions. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck are also interviewed (Donald does his imitation of Bing Crosby!). A comedy about a wealthy businessman from Omaha and his adventures on the high seas and in Algeria. + Comedy in which Wallace Beery plays the part of American millionaire Earl Tinker the owner of a large meat packing company in Omaha. He is taking his wife and daughter on vacation and the opening scene takes place in the stateroom of a steamship crossing the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Algiers. ||

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