Lux Radio Theatre: Morning Glory

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Judy Garland, John Payne, and Adolf Manjou in Morning Glory. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

The odds were 10,000 to 1 against a certain 13-year-old girl who came to a certain Hollywood studio looking for a job. But the theatre was in our blood. Her mother and father were Vodavilions. She herself had worked in a singing act with her sisters.

And like every other trooper the world over, Judy Garland wanted to be a star. Seven years have passed. And the dreams of our little 10,000 to one shot have come true. Judy is a star.

The latest evidence of that is the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture for me and my gal. Because she's lived so much of tonight's story herself, We cast her as one of the stars in Zoey Aiken's great drama of the footlights, the RKO motion picture, Morning Glory.

And saring with her are two leading men, John Payne and Adolf Monjoo. Morning Glory is the saga of one stage struck girl who had talent and a fighting heart. And because it's written in such warm and human terms, it becomes the story of all those girls who flock to Broadway and Hollywood through the years.

But with each girl, the story has a different ending. And here's another story that's developed an unusual twist. Some time ago I told you about my adventures in washing my own woolen socks. Later a newspaper cartoon gave a very graphic picture of the same activity, and consequently my mail has been full of letters from men all over the country who turn out to be brothers

And immediately following, there's Lionel Barrymore. Long one of the great figures of our stage and screen, he is now one of the great figures of radio in his new series, of the town. You can hear both of these fine shows every Wednesday night over these same stations. Your local paper will tell you the time. John Payne was heard through the courtesy

of 20th Century Fox Studios. His current picture is Iceland. Adolf Manjou will soon be seen in the Columbia picture. You were never lovelier. Heard in tonight's play were B. Benadarit as Rita, Norman Field as Hedges, and Lillian Bond, Gloria Blondell, Anne Duran, Fred McKuy, Dick Ryan, Paul Langton, Frank Penny, Tyler McBae, Leo Cleary, and Lee Arnold.

Join us again next week. Be part of the coast-to-coast audience that gathers each week to enjoy this hour of dramatic entertainment. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you to tune in next Monday night to hear Bob Hope and Anne Southern in my favorite blog.