Smilin Through

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Barbara Stanley and Robert Taylor in Smilin' Through with H.B. Warner. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeBille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight we bring you a romance of two generations in a play that I believe will last far beyond our own generation in the American Theatre. Seven through had a long run on Broadway and also has to its credit to hit motion pictures, and the reason is that it's truly a great love story.

Of course it takes two to play at that game, and we couldn't think of any stars better suited to the parts than Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor. But as Bobby Burns once observed, the best-laid schemes are mice and men ganging off to glee.

In this case, our best-laid schemes went a glee three specific times during the past several weeks because Barbara had a date with a motion picture camera or Bob had or they both had, but we played a waiting game as this combination of play and stars was well worth waiting for.

Smiring through is really two love stories because the haunting secret of a romance in the past is the barrier between Kathleen O'Hara and Kenneth Wayne at the time of our play. Barbara Stanwick is Kathleen O'Hara in the modern day and Munin Claire in the past generation.

Robert Taylor will be heard as Kenneth Wayne and then going backward in time as Jerry Wayne. So both our stars do double duty tonight, just as our product Lux Flakes does double duty all the time.

Clever women have learned that Lux Flakes is both kind of their clothes and easy on the budget. Now we begin the dramatic story of Smiling Through. As our curtain slowly rises on Act 1, starring Robert Taylor as Kenneth Wayne and Jerry Wayne, and Barbara Stanwick as Kathleen O'Hara and Munyin Claire, with HB Warner as John Carter