Young Tom Edison

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Mickey Rooney, Dula Bondi and Virginia Weidler in Young Tom Edison. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Perhaps we should have wrapped it up in fancy paper and tied a red ribbon around it and called it our Christmas present to you. It's something a good many of you asked for, and I'm sure all of you want.

Mickey Roney and Young Tom Edison. And tonight we are giving it to you, with our best wishes for a very Merry Christmas. Have you ever thought how much we depend on Mr. Edison here in the Lux Radio Theatre?

For one thing, he developed the first microphone and motion picture projector, and was one of the first to make pictures talk. Then too, he's responsible for the bulb, which is lighting your living room right now.

So if it hadn't been for Edison, well, we'd just have to call the whole thing off. Our play, however, which was adapted from the Metro-Goldron Mayor's screen success, is not a scientific report. It's an exciting tale of the adventures of a small town boy with a pack of original ideas, ideas that keep him in hot water.

As a boy, Thomas Edison was a kind of Andy Hardy that makes the casting obvious. The arrow points directly to make Ironi, who comes to us this week from the set of his latest Metro Golden Mayor picture, Man of Boys Town.

And with Mickey tonight, we have Bula Bandi and Virginia Weidler. In his later years, Edison gained the gratitude and admiration of the whole world for the things he'd done to make everybody's life easier and more enjoyable.