The Lady from Cheyenne

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux radio theatre brings you Lareda Young, Robert Preston and Edward Arnold in The Lady from Cheyenne. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

Whoever said it's a man's world must have had his tongue in his cheek when he said it or a very red cheek after he said it. But however he said that he was leading with his chin.

It was dangerous to say that, even in the days of the wild and woolly west, as we'll prove tonight, in a play called The Lady from Cheyenne. The Lady in the case is Loretta Young, and the gentlemen in her life are Robert Preston and Edward Arnold, who learned about women from her in Frank Lloyd's Universal Picture.

Of course, there's always plenty of action in the story of the Wild West, because whether it was a woman's world or not, the men still thought it was their world. But the lady from Cheyenne beats the frontier politicians at their own game and reminds us, rather forcibly, that women were voting in Wyoming long before the rest of the country

ever considered the idea. Wyoming deserves a deep bow from her 47 sisters for being the first to present the ladies with the ballot. But there are reasons other than voting why American women take more of a hand in public affairs today.

For one thing, they have more time off from domestic affairs thanks to the gifts of modern science like flux flakes for infants. Women gave that a smashing vote long ago and immediately elected it to a prominent place on millions of kitchen shelves that's been reelected at every election since and the record shows