The Legionnaire and the Lady

Hollywood, California. Monday, June 1, 1936. Ladies and gentlemen, we have grand news for you tonight. For the Lux Radio Theater has moved to Hollywood. And here we are in a theater of our very own, the Lux Radio Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, in the motion picture capital of the world.

The curtain rises. Lux presents Hollywood. Tonight, the makers of Lux's toilet soap bring you Marlene Adithi, Clark Gable, Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky and other great personality. Miss Dietrich, Mr. Gable, and an all-star cast will present the romantic melodrama, The Legionnaire and the Lady.

Our music is under the leadership of Mr. Lewis Silvers, who is director of music for the great 20th Century Fox Studio and winner of the Motion Picture Academy Award for music. Mr. Silvers, and more good news.

We give you, as our Hollywood producer, a man who will not only bring you the greatest plays and players, but the very spirit of Hollywood itself, that outstanding figure of the motion picture world, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. There are two theaters in this town, almost as famous as Hollywood itself. They are Gromman's Chinese and the Kati Circle.

Perhaps it's a coincidence that the production of mine opened both of these theaters. The king of kings raised the curtain that the Chinese, the vulgar boatman, was the first theater ever shown at the Catholic Circle for a picture.

And tonight, it is my privilege to open the New Hollywood Theatre, whose audience is greater than any four walls could encompass. The largest theatre in the world, the Lux Radio Theatre. The stars of our production tonight are my Lena Dietrich and Clark Gable, and the play The Legionnaire and the Lady.