Christmas Carol

The Campbell suits present the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Well, producing. The Disauston Wells. There are clearly a number of ways in which a Christmas carol could be introduced.

Myself, I am most struck by the happy fortune that enables us on this Christmas eve to present Mr. Lionel Barramore, the best loved actor of our time in the world's best loved Christmas story, Christmas Carol. It is the American way, as we know, to establish traditions quickly where popular instinct and sentiment pronounce them sound. And so it is that today actually

only the fifth anniversary of Mr. Lionel Barramar's first playing of the part of Ebenezer's Scrooge for the Campbell Playhouse. There is, I think, in all America nothing more eagerly awaited, more firmly rooted in the hearts of the radio family that numbers millions at this yearly performance of a Christmas Carol.

A Christmas Carol, as Charles Dickens wrote it, has by common consent long been a classic. Mr. Lionel Baramo's appearance in it is rapidly becoming one. And now just before a Christmas Carol, Ernest Chapel has a special Christmas greeting from the makers of Campbell's suits.

Mr. Chapel, thank you all so well. As the old year draws toward its close, we of Campbell's feel a bond of warmth and gratitude toward each of you, our friends. Well, you see, in homes everywhere throughout the land, Campbell's soups have been welcome.

Day by day and week by week you have placed confidence in us and in the foods we make. And there isn't anything we appreciate more deeply than the fact that so many of you have elected to let Campbell's make your soups for you.