In Which We Serve

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Ronald Coleman in, in which we serve, with Edna Bess. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The slim grey shape of a destroyer is a thing of beauty and it knifed through the sea, and a thing of power and fury with its guns ablaze.

But look below the steel shell, and you'll find a heart and a personality. it, intimately known to the captain on the bridge and to the men who are proud to be called destroyer sailors. One of the finest craftsmen of the theatre in our time drove deep into the heart of a destroyer and gave us the epic motion picture in which we serve. In fact,

no one called not only wrote it but also produced, directed and acted in it. We consider its presentation an event in this theatre, and we have a star in keeping with its importance. That star is Ronald Coleman. Sharing honors with Ronnie tonight is the very accomplished actress Ms. Ed Nabez.

In which we serve, I said, with the story of a ship, that's true. But the ship is a captain, and the chief petty officer, and the torpedo man, and an ordinary seaman, and their wives, and mothers and sweethearts and children. His Majesty, Ship Tarrant, is all these, and a touch of Dunkirk, and the North Sea, and the Battle of Crete. And its story is told in

the events that flash through the minds of the crew as they cling to a life raft in the Mediterranean. Dramas like this don't come from any ordinary typewriter unless the right man is on the send again, and they don't come to life here by themselves. But every bit of effort and care is repaid, and we run across a note like this one from two members of the