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Lux Radio Theatre - "Elmer the Great" (Old Time Radio, 1936)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Elmer the Great,” episode 101, originally broadcast October 5, 1936. Hosted and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, this CBS presentation stars Joe E. Brown as gifted small-town ballplayer Elmer Kane, with June Travis as Nellie Poole.
In snowy Gentryville, Indiana, Elmer’s chance to join New York’s major-league club tests his attachment to the grocery-delivery job and the people he cares about. Adapted from the 1928 Broadway play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan, this baseball comedy also features an intermission appearance by Yankees legend Lou Gehrig and Giants…
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