This Is the Army

Lux presents, This is the Army. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Irving Berlin's, This is the Army, with a cast of more than 200 soldiers. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Each Monday evening, since the war began, we've invited men from the armed services to witness our programs here in the Lux Radio Theatre. But tonight, the situation is reversed. We've invited the stars to come and meet the Army.

For tonight, the United States Army is on the bright side of the footlights. Over 200 strong, tall and straight young men of healthy bodies and healthy minds who can swing a song or a machine gun with equal ease.

Yes, this is the Army, and this is their show. The makers of Lux Flakes and Lux toilets soap join all of us here in welcoming our guests. Many of your sons and daughters and many of ours are now in the Army's arms.

services. To them and to you we send this hour of entertainment by the boys on the stage and the boys in the orchestra who take part in this as the Army. With these boys is an old friend of mine, an ex-Sargent from the last war, who after 25 years is still in there

doing more than his bit. This is the Army as his brainchild, born in the Army camps, prone to maturity on Broadway and now striding like a giant across the bread of the land. When this war is over and the victory won, there will be a special place in the hearts of all America for the men who have helped to win it, for the Army and the Navy and the