Libel

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Ronald Coleman in libel with Otto Prooger and Francis Robinson. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. The greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

There are probably quite a few parents in the audience with daughters who are slightly moonstruck over certain motion picture stars. And I'll offer them my sympathy right now. You see, I'm the grandfather of a certain young lady, Niheide, or Grasapa, who's very much that way about Ronald Coleman.

But as a producer, not as a grandfather, I understand her admiration perfectly. In the theatre of the air, the magnificent voice of Ronald Coleman is a treat that comes only once in a blue moon.

So having him in the Lux Radio Theatre tonight is something of an occasion. And I think we've got to play worthy of his talents. A powerful drama called Libel. It ran for many weeks on Broadway, and it's so, so different from the usual run of plays that I think you'll remember it for many weeks to come.

Libel is the drama of a trial for Libel, and of a man in the pitiless glare of the courtroom who hears his life torn apart, shred by shred. That man calls himself, Sir Mark Lodden.

But when he goes to the witness stand to try to prove that he has a right to that name, He sees the shadow of doubt cross even the face of his wife. The presence of Ronald Coleman in tonight's exciting drama would quicken the pulse of any producer and I believe of any audience.

It's what all producers pray for and what most audiences love to pay for. But of course our setup is different. For this is your theatre, just as Lux Blake's is your product, both made expressly to please you.