Only Yesterday

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Barbara Stanley and George Brent in only yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Only yesterday we were living through one of the most hectic periods of American history, the gold rush of the fabulous 20s. It was the era that began with the return of an army from France and ended with an earthquake in Wall Street.

And that nervous, exciting, dangerous decade, which seems only yesterday, is the setting for the unusual love story called only yesterday. Those were the years when the nation was singing, yes, we have no bananas and ain't going to rain no more.

The years of prohibition, ticker tape fortunes and bay-breath. A decade that began with women getting the vote and ended with motion pictures finding a voice. conventional years of speed, gayly and sudden change. The 20s completed the emancipation of American women, made them a factor in business, and yet seemed to create more beautiful women. In the 1920s every woman became more conscious of

how she looked, and toward the end of the decade women acquired a silent but vital partner, Lux toilet soap, to help them look their best. Only yesterday, adapted from the fine universal picture is the story of Mary Lane, a woman of great depth and understanding, the kind of part to which Barbara Stanwick always brings conviction and great emotional

power. For the role of Jim Emerson, man of affairs in 1929 and soldier in 1917, we were fortunate enough to get George Brent out of the trenches at Warner Brothers, where he's starring in the fighting 69. Now we go back to the 1920s to raise the curtain on Act 1 only yesterday, starring Barbara Stanrich as Mary Lane and George Brent as Jim Emmerson,