Test Pilot

It's a Cecil B. DeMille with a word from Hollywood for the soldiers, sailors, marines, and coast guardsmen of America. Once again we have the privilege of bringing the Lux Radio Theatre to the men of our armed forces, wherever you may be.

And tonight we have a thriller called Test Pilot, with a cast that just is thrilling, two fine actors, Bob Taylor and Bob Preston, and a young lady who I understand is the toast of all branches of the service.

Yes, Rita Hayworth. She'll say a word to you right now. Hello, everybody. Naturally, I don't know where you're going to be when you're here, Tess Pilate tonight. But wherever that is, our hearts are with you. Good luck.

Yes, good luck and good hunting. Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Robert Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Robert Preston in Test Pilate. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight's play is the story of the most reckless gamblers in the world. Men who toss a coin with death to earn a living. For theirs is the business of taking a loft, new, untried planes, and straining them to the limit to see if they'll crash.

But when these daredevils go to gamble in the clouds, they leave others on the ground. others who can only wait and hope and pray. This is their story too. But above all, there is great human drama in the Metro Golden Mayor action hit Test Pilot.

And sorry in it, you'll hear Robert Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Robert Preston. Incidentally, we had to cover the town to get this cast. Bob Taylor from the Metro Golden Mayor studios, Rita Hayworth from the Columbia picture, the gay senorita and Bob Preston from a certain paramount picture called Reap the Wild Wind. Test pilot is a great chapter in aviation history, a chapter about the