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So we're especially proud that so many of United Airlines' a hundred and ninety-four stewardesses use Lux Flakes for their stockings, both silk and nylon.

10 seconds sound clip from the Algiers (1941, Lux Radio Theatre) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:28:34 in the original recording.

Quote context

[...]

- You're rude.

- Am I?

- Tomorrow. I'll be expecting you... here.

- Flight Number Four, United Airlines mainliner sleeper plane leaving for Denver, Omaha, Chicago...

- Tonight we have as our guest Miss Frances Litaker, one of the lovely young stewardesses who fly for those huge mainliners.

- Chosen for poise, charm, expert training, these girls have an exciting and glamorous job. And one that's very hard on stockings.

- So we're especially proud that so many of United Airlines' a hundred and ninety-four stewardesses use Lux Flakes for their stockings, both silk and nylon.

- Over eighty-one percent of the girls who have told us what care they give their stockings use Lux Flakes.

- Miss, what part of your job would you say was hardest on stockings?

- Why, I'd say making up the berths in the sleeper planes. We have to kneel right down on the floor to change the seats into lower berths.

- Hmmm, stockings have to be elastic to take strain like that.

- Other things are hard on them, too. Like serving meals.

[...]

Algiers Sound Clip

Algiers PosterAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Algiers", based on by Henri La Barthe's novel, first aired on July 7, 1941 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Charles Boyer (Pepe le Moko), Hedy Lamarr (Gaby), Alan Napier (Inspector Slimane), Bea Benaderet (Ines)

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