The Champ

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Wallace Berry in the Champ with Josephine Hutchinson, Noah Berry and Bobby Leisen. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

There's a very select gallery of screen portraits that have become living memories to the people of our time. And that's about as near as any screen mortal can come to immortality. While Usbury's portrayal of the champ won him a special Academy Award in 1932, a portrait still so vivid that only while Usbury could bring the champ back to life in the Lux Radio

Theatre tonight. Besides the award to its star, the MGM picture also won Academy honors as the best original screen story of the year. So we think we have what is a Blue Ribbon Bill, backed of course by our Blue Ribbon product, Lux Toile It Soap, which has won the award of confidence from millions of women throughout the country. The champions were the story of

a father and son, whose devotion took plenty of hard knocks but never went down for the count. The father happens to be a prize fighter, a former champion, but that isn't the important thing in the story. The champ's greatest battle was fought but wasn't fought in the ring at all. It was fought within himself to become a champion as a father. And that brings us

to Dink, the vagabond son of this vagabond father. Anyone who saw the picture would remember the tear-stained face of Jackie Cooper as he stood by the champ against the world. Jackie's about seven years too old for the part now. But we asked him to help us out by suggesting a young actor to play the boy in the champ tonight. His suggestion and our choice was