The Awful Truth

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux radio theatre brings you Bob Hope, Constance Bennett, and Ralph Bellamy in the awful truth. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. And although it's still winter on your calendar and mine, it's spring in the heart of Bob Hope tonight. He's here with Constance Bennett and Ralph Bellamy to bring us the awful truth, a gay comedy that gives Bob plenty of scope as a Romeo.

You'll remember the awful truth as a Columbia picture hit, and we've adapted it especially for these three stars. I won't tell you how many dozen scripts and thousands of feet of film were left along the wayside before we picked this play.

But it was worth all the trouble when the irrepressible Mr. Hope began rehearsing his romantic role with Miss Bennett for inspiration and Mr. Bellamy for opposition. It's a brand new chapter in the Hope Saga.

In fact, I think we're making history. Bob's success story is amazing even for Hollywood. But there's another success story that concerns the Lux Radio Theater, too. It happened in Hollywood and it's happened in just about every other city, town, village or crossroads between here and wherever your loud speaker is.

And it's happening still in every day. That's the success story of Luxe toilet soap. And the stars of this particular success are listening to the Luxe Radio Theatre right now. I say stars because it's not a single person.

It's every one of you who uses Luxe toilet soap, and that must be almost as many stars as are visible on a clear California night. Now we give you the story of Jerry and Lucy Wernher.