Love Is News

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Bob Hope, Madeline Carroll and Ralph Dallamy in Love Is New. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

A Confucius of the newspaper business once said, It's not news when Dog Bites man, but it's definitely news when man bites dog. So when Cupid throws a dart at a matinee idol, it's just routine.

But when Bob hoped machine guns Cupid, ladies and gentlemen love his news. In fact, Bob chucks me the whole tradition of courtship right out the window and adents his own system as he goes along.

As a star reporter, he proves that he has an eye for beauty as well as a nose for news by selecting Madeleine Carroll as the lady who ruins his disposition. But it takes me to make this romance, and Ralph Delamy is a third party that even Bob can't laugh off.

Love his news brings Bob to this stage for the first time in his history and ours. We've been trying to find him a play since last spring, but it was Bob himself who finally found this one.

He telephoned me one day from his golf club, and said he'd just solved the problem in a sand trap. I'll admit I was a little ashamed. There I'd been sitting in a nice cool office, hunting for a Bob Hope play, and Bob out there suffering on a blazing hot golf course had beaten me to it.

But those who saw this play on the screen needn't be alarmed if we've taken a few liberties with the script. In fact, with Mr. Hope playing the reporter, the script hasn't been the same at any two rehearsals.