Third Finger Left Hand

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Martha Scott in third finger left hand. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In times of stress in the world, there's more satisfaction than ever in the job of producing plays for the Lux Radio Theatre. That's because trouble knits families and nations closer together. And we know that for one hour, every week, a great family that sprawls across the whole continent turns its ears to this stage.

Farmer and business man, shipbuilder and aircraft worker, soldier and sailor, mother and dad, all of you, who lend us your ears. Our job is to make you laugh, to stir you with drama and bring us all together in a spirit of friendship and goodwill.

Tonight we have a gay comedy, and comedy is something the doctor orders for all of us in times like these. And it's doubly welcome when our stars are such charming and talented players as Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Martha Scott.

The play is Third Finger Left Hand. Those words may suggest the place where the gentleman always puts the lady's wedding ring, but don't let the title of this Metro Goldwood Mayor hit fool you. In this romantic comedy, Martha Scott puts the ring on her own third finger left hand, then makes up an imaginary husband. And when the debonair Mr. Fairbanks turns up claiming to be the

husband, the situation is a bit too much for Martha, even though she is the smartest business woman in town. They say it's only the married women who know how to mix business and romance, because it takes intelligent buying to run a happy home just as it does to run a business. And one of the keys to