Stella Dallas

From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwick, John Bowles, Ann Shirley and Barbara O'Neill. Lux presents Hollywood. It is your loyalty to Lux, toilet soap, that makes this program possible, which tonight stars Barbara Stanwick, John Bowles, Ann Shirley and Barbara O'Neill in Samuel Goldman's superlative screen production, Stella Dallas. You will also hear T. Keith

Glennon, Operations Manager of Paramount Studios and Music under the direction of Lewis Silver's. And now, the producer of the Lux Radio Theatre. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

With this presentation, the Lux Radio Theatre becomes three years old. During this week in 1934, we first went on the air, and by coincidence, John Boulds was our leading man then, as he is tonight.

For our stars, as well as for us, the first year has been an outstanding one. It's been Mr. Bowles busiest and most successful year on the screen. Anne Shirley has acquired stardom and her husband, and Barbara Stanley, because it last come into her own through her magnificent performance as Stella Dallas, which she repeats

tonight. I know of no one in Hollywood who merits success more than Barbara. Born in a poor section of Brooklyn, she lost both parents while still a child. with 10 different families, whichever would take her in. She never knew what a home was.

At 13 she was earning her own living as a clerk. Two years later she was a dancer, and her first glimpse of success came with a stage role from David Bellasco, who changed her name from Ruby Stevens to Barbara Stanwick. Now on top, Barbara can at last indulge her lifelong ambition. She's purchased a farm in the San Fernando Valley and will spend her off-screen