Lydia

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Merle Oberon in Lydia, with Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshall, Joseph Cotton, and George Reeves. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In the words of the very sound philosopher, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to find good drama for the Lux Radio Theatre. Ordinarily, we wait until a picture or stage play becomes a hit before selecting it for the air.

But we pick tonight's drama long before it became a hit. In fact, even before it became a drama. And for that we have to thank our evening star, Merle Oberon. At a rehearsal here many months ago, Merle told me the idea of a picture she was going to make.

An idea that sounded so good, I put in my radio bid the very next day. And that was even before the script was written. Under the practice production hand of Alexander Korda, the idea became the screenplay Lydia, which has just been released nationally.

It's already a hit on the screen, and that should be assurance. It'll be a hit over your loud speaker tonight, especially with Merle Oberon playing her original role, supported by four other members of the picture cast, Edna Mae Oliver, Alan Marshall, Joseph Cotton, and George Reeves.

Mrs. Miss Oliver's maiden voyage on this stage, and as one who gives a mental cheer every time she appears on the screen, I feel like giving her a 21 gun salute tonight. In this play, the lovely Lydia Macmillan makes her choice among four men who are in love with her.