Goodbye Mister Chips

Lutz presents Hollywood. The Lutz Radio Theater brings you Lawrence Olivier and Edna Best in Goodbye Mr. Chips. And as a special guest, Mr. James Hilton, author of Our Play. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Thanksgiving comes but twice a year. Some of us will carve our turkeys this coming Thursday. will celebrate November 30th. I don't think the date matters very much. Canada celebrates thanksgiving at till another time. Perhaps we really need more than one Thanksgiving day to cover all the things we have to be thankful for. Freedom above all. Peace, good health,

and those we love. After poor thanksgiving, the Lux Radio Theatre has received a letter which we value highly for its friendly spirit. It says in part, in addition to the big things in life, I'm And thankful for many smaller things which add to the joy of living, among these is the Lux Radio Theatre, which is a highlight of the week for our family.

And another highlight which helps us in many ways every day in the year is Lux Flakes. So here's wishing you and the Lux Radio Theatre and Lux Flakes many happy thanksgivings to come. We appreciate Mrs. J. J. Jay Carter's gracious letter, and tonight we're also grateful to Mr. James Houghton, that stories like good-bye Mr. Chipps are still being written. In my opinion,

Chipps is one of the most engaging characters in literature since Dickens. I was particularly delighted with the success of the picture, because it was directed by my assistant director of Silent Picture Days, Sam Wood.

Our cast tonight is headed by two stars who are making their first appearance in the Lux radio theatre, Lawrence Olivier and Edna Best. Mr. Olivier is an actor who refuses to take his star them very seriously, and that makes him an idea of Mr. Chipps. When Lawrence Olivier learned that in the Hollywood idiom he was considered terrific in weathering heights,