Hold Back the Dawn

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Charles Boye, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward in Hold Back the Dawn. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

There's glamour in the air tonight. Our stage is ablaze with it, and out beyond our footlights as far as radio can reach. A hushed audience waits to hear, Charles Boye, Paulette Goddard, and Susan Hayward in the Lux Radio Theatre.

Somehow all this seems to be a symbol of a way of life that has turned the eyes of the world to this promised land. Only a few hours from here, along the common boundary of this country and its sister of public Mexico, is a colony of people without a country.

Men and women from the four corners of the earth, waiting their turns to cross the border into the United States. There you can find more stories of success and failure of tragedy and comedy of love and hate than fiction can tell in a lifetime. And their paramount found the subject for the current screen success hold back the dawn. You'll hear it tonight

with two of its original stars, Charles Boyet and Paulette Goddard, and with them the gifted and charming Susan Haywood. In the theatre it's an old custom for the producer to peak out front and count the house. Well I couldn't do that in the Lux Radio Theatre even if my eyes were as sharp as my granddaughters. But I have an idea that tonight's plays and

stars have drawn a full house all the way from Hollywood to Broadway. And as one showman to another I'll congratulate Lux Toileth's soap for making an evening like this possible. And just for the record, if you haven't tried our product yet, that's something you owe to yourself, not to us.