The Westerner

Lux presents Hollywood. Stradial Theatre brings you Gary Cooper in the Westinner with Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

I have a telegram here from Helen Hayes. She says, best wishes to you and the Lux Radio Theatre. May your seventh season be so good, it surpasses the other six. six. That's just like Helen Hayes wishing good to others. So this seems the right time, Helen, to wish you all success in your new program. But it'll be hard to top the performances

you've given us in the past. I'm going to be one of your listeners next Sunday night, September 29th. I wouldn't miss the Helen Hayes opening broadcast on the CBS network for anything in the world. Good luck, Helen. We'll be listening. A few weeks ago on a flight across this continent. I had a bird's eye view of the jagged mountains and broad plains,

the quiet towns and bustling cities, the haystacks and the smokestacks, a bird's eye view of America. It was a panorama of achievement, a vision of freedom fulfilled. It was a script in my hand that went well with what I saw. It was the script of tonight's play, the westerner, a play about some of the men who dreamed America and made the dream come true.

To those men Samuel Goldman paid a tribute in his motion picture just released, and to them we dedicate this radio production with the same stars you'll see on the screen, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Daris Davenport.

The Westerners are a story of the march of empire toward the setting sun, of men who shoot first and ask questions later. It's a story of one man in particular, and this rough scramble for land and power, a A man with a sense of justice and away with a gun.