Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theatre brings you Cary Grant, Claude Raines, Evelyn Keys, and James Gleason. And here comes Mr. Jordan. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

One evening after dinner, the family and I settled down in our most comfortable chairs to see a motion picture at home. None of us stayed settled long. The picture was Colombia's, here comes Mr. Jordan, and from myself down to the youngest grandchild it kept us all on the edge of our chairs.

Following the peculiar career of a prize fighter named Joe Pendleton, who was killed in the first scene, yet lived to get the girl at the end, the neatest trick of the year. A slight era of destiny takes the hero through adventures that make Christopher Columbus Marco Polo and a jellin' looked like stay-at-homes. You see, Joe gets killed, but he is not dead. And thereby

hangs one of the most curious picture stories of the year. So here comes Mr. Jordan and here comes Cary Grant. And from the original screencast, Claude Raines, Evelyn Keys, and James Greecean. Whenever a producer announces a new picture, he's immediately deluged with applications from hundreds of ambitious young ladies, some of them with real talent, who want to become

motion pictures stars. He took me weeks to examine all the applications that came in when I announced to reap the wild wind. But it was very gratifying to learn how many of these girls were boosters for Lux toilets hope.

One of tonight's stars, a Lux girl herself, Evelyn Keys, made her screen debut several years ago in one of my pictures. you'd like to hear what it was in her screen test that caught my attention. It was her completely natural beauty. She was talented, of course, and her voice was very good. But more than