Captain January

Muts presents Hollywood. The Lucks radio theatre brings you Shirley Temple, Charles Winninger and Jean Lockhart in Captain January. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

It's you who makes stars, and you made Shirley Temple a star long before she knew what a star was. A few years ago, when she was just learning the mysteries of spelling, which I've never been able to sell.

She tried her newfound knowledge on signs along the street. Much to her astonishment the letters on a theatre marquee spelled her own name, and she couldn't imagine how it got there. Tonight that name shines an hour marquee, with the title of the play Captain January, adapted from one of Shirley's most successful pictures for 20th Century Fox.

It's the story of a little girl named Starr, and a love of an old salt named Captain January, and of what happened when fate tried to fool them apart. with Charles Winninger and Gene Lockhart on Shirley Sides' fate as a tough assignment.

Of course we can't please all the people all the time, but I'm inclined to think we'll hit a new high tonight. And who knows, perhaps everyone in our audience will imitate the lady who has just written us saying, thank you very much for last week's play, and for a wonderful team of stars.

I enjoyed them immensely, and I think I'll buy an extra package of Lux Flakes just to please you. I'm grateful to the lady and our answer is that of course our decision pleases us. But best of all, we know it's going to please her, just as the play did.