The Rains Came

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Kay Francis, George Brent, Jean Parker and Jimimichi in The Rains Cale. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demill. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

For most of us in this part of the world, India has always been obscured by mystery. We think of it as a faraway land of mystic cults and strange customs, of grave turban men and veiled women, of elephants and shiny teak and beautiful exotic temples.

All this is India, land of eternal fascination. Louis Bromfield has telling they captured this enchantment in his novel, The Raines Came, a love story of great dramatic intensity. The book has already made a hit picture for 20th Century Fox, and tonight we bring you our radio production of this vital story. Both the book and the picture were best-sellers,

and it brought to you tonight by another best-seller, Lux Toilet Soap. So many women have put Lux Toilet Soap on their beauty list that they've made it a best-seller from India to Indiana. The rings came as the drama of a group of people from our own world, who for one reason or another,

are living in Rancipur, a native state of India's back country. The central character is Tom ransom, a talented painter who's found in India, life is too lazy for his own good. It takes an earthquake and a flood to reveal the vein of iron beneath his boredom.

To bring you the star who played this role in the picture, we had to reach almost halfway to India because George Brent was enjoying himself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu. When we talked to him by radio telephone, we couldn't actually hear the surf at Waikiki, we had to compete with it to get George on the next steamer for the mainland.