The Old Maid

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Loretta Young and Miriam Hopkins in the Old Maid. And as our special guest, Miss Zoe Aiken's author of the Old Maid. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.

The greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you the drama of a strange masquerade. The story of a woman who remade herself for the eyes of the world, who suppressed forever the yearnings of a great heart and lived a magnificent lie.

Charlotte Lovell was called an old maid, but tonight we reveal her romantic secret. We go back to the days when she was young and beautiful and discover the reason for the deliberate sacrifice that her life became.

The old maid is an intimate play, so intimate that it could never have been written by a man. It reveals two greater knowledge of the feminine mind and heart. And to this knowledge, Miss Zoey Akins, who adapted the play from a story by Edith Wharton, brought a deep human sympathy which gave her characters a universal appeal on both stage

and screen. The old maid was a Pulitzer Prize drama on Broadway and recently became a memorable Warner Brothers picture. In studying the script for the first time, it occurred to me that the term Old Maid is gradually passing from use.

Today, we have bachelor girls and single women, but few Old Maids. Perhaps that's because the words to note are rather drab appearance. And nowadays a dull drab appearance is all fashioned when a help like Lux Toilet Soap is available.

In tonight's play the roles of Charlotte Level and her cousin Delia are of equal prominence, which presented an unusual casting problem. We needed two actresses who could be convincing both as girls of twenty and women of middle age.