Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Lux presents Hollywood. It's Radio Theatre, brings you Remin Massey, Faye Benter and Otto Kruger in Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

When I was a boy, there were thousands of people alive who had known Abraham Lincoln. Had watched his inauguration, heard him speak at Gettysburg, and looked on as a train draped in mourning took him back to his beloved Illinois.

For tonight he lives for all of us again, portrayed by a gifted star, Raymond Massey and Robert E. Sherwood's great play, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, a Pulitzer Prize drama on Broadway and a distinguished motion picture.

Mr. Massey starred in both productions and brings the stage play to Los Angeles this week, which gave us just the opportunity we'd been waiting for to get the original star in a radio adaptation of the Sherwood play. As Mary Todd, we present another favorite of Broadway and Hollywood, Miss Fade Bainter, in her first appearance

here this season, and as Nini and Edward's a friend of Lincoln, we have Otto Kruger. Abe Lincoln in Illinois is an American saga. The story of a young man with the courage, humor, and great heart that makes America American. It's the drama of Lincoln before he became a national hero, a man so simple, friendly and unaffected that the politicians

couldn't understand him at all. It's not easy to picture it was not when Lincoln was a young man. Much of it was backwards. Politics was strictly a man's affair because women couldn't vote. And the district forum was the general store where you could buy anything from sun bonnets to sassafras tea. Unfortunately for the ladies, you could not buy luck's toilet