Invitation to Happiness

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Fred McMurray and Madeline Carroll in invitation to happiness. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Great drama has been fought inside the roped square of the prize ring. And behind such drama, there's often a moving story, never imagined for the spectators. It may be a brutal story, or it may be tenderly human, like tonight's play, Invitation to Happiness. In the Lux Radio Theatre, this title really has a special

meaning. In fact, one lovely member of our audience says, it might be a statement about our product, because Lux's toilet soap is an invitation to happiness for every woman. But tonight's invitation to happiness is the highly personal story of a real man, a story that only a few people know about a prize fighter named King Cole,

a story that was never printed on the front pages nor told over the radio, a story that involves the woman who loved him, the son who hated him, and emotions that were too strong even for a strong man who lived by his fists.

It was Fred McMurray who played King Cole in the recent Paramount Picture based on an original story by Mark Jerome. When I met Fred in the studio gymnasium a few weeks ago, before I caught this cold, it reminded me that that invitation to happiness was on our schedule, we were waiting for a date.

We set the date during a handball session, and as I was leaving, Fred picked up some boxing gloves, but he explained that he had a date with another producer, and I quote Fred, a producer who was a sucker for a left hook.