The Sidewalks of London

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Charles Lawton and Elsa Lancaster in the sidewalks of London with Alan Marshall. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. Jamil. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

This is an occasion in the Lux Radio Theatre. In fact, whenever Charles Lawton appears at an occasion, I saw him first about nine years ago on the London stage with the young lady named Elsa Lanchester who impressed me almost as much as he did, but she must have impressed Mr. Lawton even more because he married her.

So tonight we have Mr. and Mrs. Lawton together for the first time at this microphone. A starring team like this would be a great event in any of the leading theatres of the world. In the Lux Radio Theatre, such events are made possible by your support of our product, Lux Toileth's Hope.

you have a reserved seat in the most comfortable chair in the house every Monday night. It's that reserved seat that automatically goes with your purchase of Lux toilet soap. Our play, The Sidewalks of London, is adapted from the picture which Paramount is just releasing, starring Charles Lawton and Vivian Lee.

It's already scored a great success in England where it was produced. And incidentally, it was this picture that gave Vivian Lee a first important opportunity. as you may have heard, later became Scarlett O'Hara in a picture called Gone With a Wind.

The sidewalks of London is a play about buskers, and that seems to call for an explanation. Buskers are stepchildren of the theatre. They are entertainers who make a living by performing on the street instead of on the stage. When his performance is over, the busker passes the hat, and I suppose that's about the hardest school of acting there is, because if there's