Craigs Wife

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Rosalind Russell and Herbert Marshall in Craig's Wife with Pula Bandi. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight's play, Craig's Wife, will probably remind all drama critics that women are unpredictable. And though the critics praised the drama when it opened on Broadway, they all added wisely, the women won't like it. But the unpredictable ladies loved it.

A few months later, George Kelly's play won the Pulitzer Prize, then went the way of all hit plays and became a hit motion picture. Tonight you'll hear the same fine actress who played Craig's wife on the screen, Rosalind Russell.

And co-starring with her, we present a long time favorite of this audience, Herbert Marshall. Not why the critics thought women wouldn't like Craig's wife is a little hard for me to guess. It's an honest play, and in my opinion, women admire honesty and drama as well as in husbands.

It's the story of a woman who made the fatal mistake of letting love come second, and that's very unusual for a woman. And here's a story in figures that I hope is not unusual. Ordinarily figures make pretty dull reading.

But we got a real thrill out of these in a letter from a calculating woman, the only kind of calculating woman we like. She writes, we've used Luxe toilet soap exclusively in my home since December 1926, and multiplied out that comes to something over 500 cakes.

How's that for a record? And we are farmers, not screen stars. That's nearly 15 years. So the lady must have been satisfied. Personally, we think the farmers of this country are pretty good judgment. So when they pin a blue ribbon on our product, it's something to boast about.