City for Conquest

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Alice Faye and Robert Preston in City for Confressed. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

To the traveler coming up the bay, New York is an etching of towers against the sky. To the subway motoman, it's a network of tunnels and caves. To the blind man on the corner, it's a mysterious symphony of mysterious sounds.

To the playwright, it's a theatre of a million and one dramas of love and hate and triumphant heartbreak. But to the young and the valued, it's a city for conquest. And that's the name Warner Brothers gave to a fine motion picture drama which we present tonight with Alice Faye and Robert Preston in the starring roles.

City for Conquest is a hard-driving drama of a fight for success waged by one man and one girl in this fabulous town. A fight that takes courage and a stout heart, but is not worth winning without love.

I think you like it because it's real and human, and because it's a story with a very moving lesson. There's a moral in every human experience, if you will only take the time to find it, and in every bit of history, too, like this one that a listener sent in the other day.

Browsing in an old trunk, she found a musty, yellowed book that contained this helpful household hint of about 1850 BLF. That's before luck's flakes, of course. The historic item read, wash stockings in white soap liquor to take out the rough dough dirt, then rinse in fair water, and worked them well in a fresh soap liquor, then make a third soap liquor, in which put