The much. The Lux Radio Radio Theater brings you Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Buck Private.

Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr Cecil B. DeMille.

Gammil.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. To a producer one of the most gratifying

sounds in the theatre is what may be classified academically as the ventro-rroicists.

But backstage, we have a slang name for it that I'll call the tummy laugh.

Past masters at producing this phenomenon are tonight stars.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, who hit Hollywood with the force of a hurricane

less than a year ago.

The picture that put them over was Buck Private, which Universal made in the ordinary course of the studio schedule.

Suddenly one day everybody on the lot from office boy to president woke up to the fact that

Gold had been discovered in Universal City.

Buck Private had panned out as a bonanza.

And that's the play we've picked for Abbott and Costello's debut in the Lux Radio Theater.

It's a story of life in an army camp, some highly imaginary army camp, where a tent flap opens and Abbott and Costello blow in with a draft.

But of course, any similarity between this play and life in the armed forces of the republic is purely coincidental

hiding behind the curtain now are Abbott and Costello so we'll raise it for For the first act of Buck Private, starring Bud Abbott as

Smitty and Lou Costello as Herbie. With Benny Rubin as Sergeant Collins,

Lin Carver as Judy, and Jean O'Donnell as Bob.

September the 14th, 1940.

Congress passes the first peacetime selective training act in the history of our nation.

From the farms they come and from the factories from quiet villages from roaring cities

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