"Secrets" with Walter Abel
"Secrets" with Walter Abel

03.24.1935 - Lux Radio Theatre "Secrets"

 

Ordinarily all of the cry baby stunts on NBC are done by Sally Belle Cox, a Parkersburg W. Va. girl. She worked with Irene Dunn [sic] in the Sunday "Secrets" broadcast. Sally was the "baby" daughter of Miss Dunn for the broadcast hour. She buries her face in a tiny pillow and cries and that makes her sound like a baby.

 Miss Dunn's acting of a woman in her youth, middle-age and old age was referred to by the few permitted in the studio as the best of the Sunday afternoon performances. And don't think that "Douglass Garrick" was kidding when he said that Irene Dunn is beautiful. She's that and is just as modest as any humble girl worker about the studios. She really cried when the script called for a sobby voice and in her old woman's role she shook from toe to head with the nervousness of a person that age. The "other woman" in the story was portrayed by Vera Allen, whom radio fans will remember as "Mrs. Faraday" the hard-boiled secret agent in "Roses and Drums." Miss Dunn praised her as great actress...

(The Pittsburgh Press, 03.26.1935)  

 

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