The Awful Truth

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Carrie Grant and Claudette Colbert in the awful truth with Phyllis Brooks. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Camille, greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, that a feeling of gayity and excitement along Hollywood Boulevard tonight, lights are ablaze and crowds are gathering in front of our theatre.

All the visible signs of a Hollywood opening are here to welcome the Lux Radio Theatre back to the air after our summer vacation. But there's another scene that interests us more than the bright lights on Hollywood Boulevard.

The scene repeated some millions of times throughout the country. It's the scene in your living room, where you and your family once more occupy the reserved seats, which are yours tonight and every Monday night.

You are the ones who made this theatre possible by your purchases of Lux flakes and Lux toilet soap. We owe you an obligation to make this new year and the Lux Radio Theatre the most entertaining in our history.

And tonight we pay you the first installment on this obligation by presenting the awful truth starring Claudette Colbert and Carrie Grant, which reminds me that we still owe an obligation to Miss Colbert. Whenever she's done a comedy for us in the past, Claudette has always said that next time she'd like to do a serious drama and we've solemnly promised that she could.

And we'd keep that promise if you'd give us the chance. But we're continually finding comedies that you insist on doing. And I'm not a man with either the courage or the inclination to refuse Claudette anything.

At lunch not long ago, we talked about plans for the opening coming for the coming season in the Lux Radio Theater. The moment I mentioned the awful truth, I noticed a hungry gleam in Claudette's eyes.