The Sisters

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Irene Dunn and David Niven in the Sisters. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Our play tonight, The Sisters, takes us back to a time when there were only 45 stars in the American flag. flag. Flimsy airplanes and flickering motion pictures were the wonders of the age. Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States and Jim Jeffries was heavyweight boxing champion of the world and and Lauren Jydis made you just as horse then as it does now. It was the day

of hayrides crooting bees and torchlight parades when the audible be with a hostelous carriage and nice young ladies either got married or taught school. Whichever they did they seemed through age more rapidly than our more enlightened ladies of today.

For today women know more about ways and means of staying attractive, such as using our own luxe toilet soap, which helps to keep the modern woman young in appearance and young in hot. But even though the action of the sisters takes place in the days before youth became an art, it's a very modern play.

There are still artful dodgers of responsibility who remain plumed knights in the eyes of the girls who love them. And for such men, girls still sacrifice security, and all that they've been brought up to, as Louise Elliott does for Frank Medleyman tonight's drama.

The idea of co-starring Irene Dunn and David Niven was mine, but the choice of the play was theirs. Ordinarily, we schedule a play and then select the right stars. But this week, we had the stars, so we let them select the right play. And when the answer came back, From both of them, the play was the Sisters. Of course, the manuscript of the Sisters did