Come and Get It

From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Edward Arnold and Ann Shirley in Come and Get It with Walter Brennan, Lou Ayers, Mary Nash and Mady Christians. Present Hollywood. If you enjoy these programs, ladies and gentlemen, remember that they are made possible through your purchases of our products and come to you with a sincere appreciation of our sponsors.

Our play tonight adapted from Edna Ferbich's great novel, stars Edward Arnold and Shirley Walter Brennan, Lou Ayers, Mary Nash, Mady Christians and Mary and Burns. As a special guest, we present Ms. Helen Rodden, Arthur and Calimist, writer of the Merrick Around, the famous nationally known column on Northern Merries.

Noah Silvers conducts our orchestra. And now, here's our producer, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Many young men sincerely believe that they cannot succeed without a lucky break.

Perhaps they're right. But I should like to point out to them the case in Edward Arnold. his break was usually a heartbreak. Arnold was born deep in the New York slums. When he was eight his father went blind and his mother died when he was ten. His was the great good fortune to climb out of bed at daybreak to deliver papers and to work for a butcher who

paid his weekly salary not in cash but in scraps of meat. At the age of twelve he worked 18 hours a day for fourteen dollars a week until the bones of his feet gave way and he had to spend 21 weeks in plaster casts. He went to Columbia University, not to attend classes,

but to work in the boiler room of the powerhouse. A welfare organization called the East Side Settlement House started him as an actor. Once in a while, the settlement house made brave attempts to stage Shakespeare. On those occasions, young Mr. Arnold walked off with the honors.