Palmolive Beauty Box Theater was an American radio program that featured an operetta or other musical each week from April 24, 1934, to October 6, 1937.
Announcer Tiny Ruffner introduced "the Palmolive Players, with John Barclay as director and leading man."
[4] Dunning wrote that the initial run "was a huge success, drawing an estimated 25 million people in its first year and tapering off sharply thereafter.
Shilkret ended 20 years as a RCA Victor musician and executive in New York in mid-1935 to become a musical director and head of the music department at RKO Radio Pictures in Hollywood, thus ending his affiliation with the Palmolive Beauty Box program.
Al Goodman was the musical director for Palmolive Beauty Box’s remaining two years.