Maisie Was a Lady

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Anne Southern, New Ears, Maureen O'Sullivan and Henry Stevenson in Maisie Was A Lady. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Once upon a time, there was a picture called Maisie. Not a million dollar production, just one of modest pretensions hoping for a modest success. But Maisie was played by a clever young actress named Anne Southern.

And so the modest success became a pot of gold, and everybody lived happily ever after, especially Maisie, who became the heroine of four more pictures, and is still going strong, all of which go to show that you can't keep a smart girl down.

One of the most popular of all the Maisies, that's the studio name for them over at Metro Golden Mayor, is the comedy Maisie was a lady, and that's the play we've selected to salute this remarkable young lady's debut his debut in the Lux Radio Theatre tonight. And our cast is the same group of stars who

made the picture. Anne Southern is Maisie, of course, Lou Ayers and Maureen O'Sullivan. And with them we have Henry Stevenson. Maisie herself is a chorus girl, but a bit more versatile than the average. In the beginning of tonight's play, for instance, she has a temporary connection with the circus, where she gives a sterling performance as the headless woman. It's an

odd way to begin an adventure with the upper crust of society, but that's Maisie for you. For about two years, letters have been piling up, asking for one of these stories, until the stack finally reached the height where it said, get Maisie or else. That many good customers for luck's toilet soap can't be wrong. For some reason or other, many of your