The Letter

From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Merle O'Brien and Walter Houston in the letter with Ralph Forbes and Eric Snowden. Lux presents Hollywood. Our sincere thanks, ladies and gentlemen, for your loyal purchases of the products which make this program possible.

Lux Blake and Lux Torelitzo. Tonight we bring you Merle O'Brien, Walter Houston, Ralph Forbes, and Eric Snowden in the letter, a grand love story, a thrilling melodrama set against the background of Far Off Melee. As guests, you'll hear Carvath Wells, famous author and explorer, and his wife, our orchestras conducted by Lewis Silvers. And now, the producer of the Lux Radio Theatre.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Our play tonight ranks among the most distinct works of one of the finest writers of our time, William Somerset Morm, whose contributions to the screen include not only the letter, but such memorable dramas as rain, the painted veil, and of human bondage. Educated to be a doctor, he received his degree but never

practiced. He turned at once to writing and travel. The author of many great novels and more than twenty-five plays, he served during the war on the British Secret Service. Few Some writers have a keen appreciation of detail, and the notebooks he carries are crammed with notes so copious that Mr. Moore usually has about ten years' work planned in advance.

The scene of the letter is melee, a neighbor of India, in whose city of Kalkatta, Merlobaran, daughter of a British army officer, lived for several years. Miss Oberan came to London when 17 determined to reach the screen.

She had $100 on the steamship ticket back to India. Her money gone, she sold her ticket, and wound up by working in London's cafe de Paris. Bit parts and pictures later brought her to the attention of Alexander Corder and to Ultimate Stardom.