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Then, our fair correspondent adds, with a twinkle in her pen...

7 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:01:16 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- For it was your letters asking for Wuthering Heights that started me in pursuit of it.

- May I read you one of the many letters requesting Emily Brontë's masterpiece?

- This letter says, I'm wondering would you, could you, give us 'Wuthering Heights'?

- If I thought my request could be granted, I should be thrilled to the skies.

- I think it's one of the greatest love stories that's ever been told, and leaves you with something to think about.

- Then, our fair correspondent adds, with a twinkle in her pen...

- 'If 'Wuthering Heights' is staged, I shall use two cakes of Lux Toilet Soap each week instead of one.'

- It's very gratifying to me that the products behind this theatre - Lux Toilet Soap and Lux Flakes - are of such incomparably high standards that I have no hesitation in asking you to purchase them.

- And now, just a word about how I came to cast tonight's play.

- The part of Cathy requires great talent in an actress. But, above all, it demands sincerity.

- And that alone was enough to make Barbara Stanwyck our choice.

[...]

Wuthering Heights (1939) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsMemorable quotes from Emily Brontë's novel, featuring sound clips from the Lux Radio Theatre broadcast version first aired on September 18, 1939 on CBS.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Cathy), Ida Lupino (Isabella Linton), Brian Aherne (Heathcliff), Thomas Freebairn-Smith (Edgar Linton), Kemball Cooper (Hindley), Marga Ann Deighton (Ellen)

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