Radio review - Lux - "The Lemon Drop Kid" (1951) **1/2

After his success with Sorrowful Jones Bob Hope returned to Damon Runyon land as a tout who accidentally gives a wrong tip to a gangster and has to raise ten grand. He does it by exploiting a little old lady for charity purposes. Hope is lively and suits the milieu, even if it got a bit tired and things like him pretending to be a woman don't transfer well to radio - his sometime mistress Marilyn Maxwell plays his girlfriend here. Naturally he makes a joke about Democrats and there are some ad-libs which crack up the audience.