Blood and Sand

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Tyrone, Power and Annabella in Blood and Sand. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In Brooklyn, it's baseball. In Spain, it's ball fighting. And ball fighting inspires the same fierce passion and every true Spaniard that baseball inspires only in a fan from Brooklyn. the one of the most popular matador of modern times was born in Brooklyn.

But the fact that a matador flirts with death at every pass of his cape makes the bull ring the most dramatic arena in the world. And the most dramatic story of the bull ring is tonight's play, Blood and Sand.

Twice in the memory of most of us, Blood and Sand packed the motion picture theaters of the nation. The first time the star was a young man named Rudolf Valentino. A few months ago when 20th Century Fox made the picture again, Tyrone Power threw the Maudadors cape about his shoulders, and once more audiences frilled to this tempestuous drama

of life by night and death in the afternoon. Tyrone Power is our star tonight, and with him we present the lovely and charming Annabella. This is a love story. The love story of a boy who fights his way from obscurity to fame, and of a girl whose loyalty never wavers when gold and glory throw a shadow over love.

If you saw blood and sand on the screen, you'll remember its dramatic use of color. Color is always box office, on screen or off, and where color is concerned, so is Lux Flakes. In filming, reap the wild wind recently, I had a company down in Charleston, South Carolina, where the townspeople were bligeingly turned back the clock for us about a hundred years.