The Man Who Played God

From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents George Alice in the Man Who Played God with Florence Alice and Dolores Costello. Let's present Hollywood. Welcome to the Lux Radio Theater, the theater made possible by your loyal purchases of Lux Lakes and Lux Tortoises.

In the hour to follow, you will be entertained by George Alice, Florence Alice, Dolores Costello, Elizabeth Risen and Ivan Simpson. And acting on the air, Mr. Wallace's great screen triumph, the man who played God, from the play by Jules Eckerd Goodman, based on the story by Gouverneur Morris.

Our guest is the man Hollywood has just selected as the outstanding film director of the past year. Mr. Leo McCarry, who less than two weeks ago, received the Academy Award for his direction of the awful truth.

Conducting our orchestra is Lewis Silvers. This program is produced by one of Hollywood's most famous citizens and pioneers. Your host, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. One of the most flattering sensations in life is to be asked for advice.

One immediately assumes a dignified thoughtfulness and prepares to blossom forth with opinions. But for me, the dispensing of advice is no longer the delight it once was. Or I have a little ghost that haunts me, with an occasional reminder that I once advised George Alice that I didn't think he'd have much of a chance in motion pictures.

Long before Mr. Alice became famous, he was acting at a combined dramatic school and theatre at Margate England. There he took notice of a girl, who seemed to go out of her way to ignore him.

One afternoon to escape from a drenching downpour, Mr. Alice dashed into the dark and empty and found that the young lady had preceded him. They looked at each other, they began to talk, and out of the rain and darkness a kind of magic was distilled. At the end of four minutes he had proposed and the girl had accepted.