My Friend Flicka

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Roddy McDowell, George Brent, and Rita Johnson in My Friend Blicker. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Among the grown-ups of this world, there's usually something less than perfect understanding. But between boys and horses, there's a deep and abiding sympathy that leaves no room for bickering. Not a word is spoken, but there's a miracle of communication and a lump of sugar, a pat on the head or a nozzle cheek.

I had a horse when I was a boy, and when I heard what my friend Flicker was about, I knew I'd like it. But I was not prepared for the deep emotional experience, which the twentieth-century Fox picture gives to all who see it.

Marty McDowell's fine performance as the boy and Mary O'Hara's great story fit perfectly together. And tonight we brought back an old favorite of yours, George Brent as Roddy's father, with Rita Johnson from the picture cast as his mother.

This drama has the power of simplicity. It's a story of a boy on a ranch and the outlaw horse who is his friend. Together they meet the joys and the pathos of their simple life, a life perhaps we all may end this. I believe it plays like this, which have given the Lux Radio Theatre its

reputation through the years and earned the loyalty which you have given to this theatre and to Lux's pilot so you know it takes about forty people to bring one of these plays to the microphone in addition to the actors. There are the engineers, writers, musicians, technicians, stagehands, script-girls, play-readers, research experts, and just plain handymen like