A Tale of Two Cities

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Ronald Coleman and Edna Best in a tale of two cities. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness. It was the spring of hope. It was the winter of despair.

So Charles Dickens described the world as it was in the time of his story a tale of two cities. But for the Lux Radio Theatre, it certainly is the best of times when we can bring you this thrilling drama with a star like Ronald Coleman and with Edna Best as his leading lady.

While Dickens was writing a tale of two cities, he tells us he had a great desire to play the leading part himself. But if he could have known how Ronald Coleman would play it, I am sure he'd gladly have given up his own ambition.

You'll hear Ronnie tonight as Sidney Cotton, with Edna Best as Lucy Manette, in this roaring drama of adventure in the days of the French Revolution. A story of love and sacrifice marching to the rhythm of the reign of terror.

A tale of two cities is one of those rare stories that achieve immediate success and yet hold their popularity over the years. That's the true test of real value, in that a very close parallel, in a story not of two cities, but of six continents, the story of Luxe toilet soap. You know a famous critic once wrote of Dickens, that he had risen like a rocket