The Maltese Falcon

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Edward G. Robinson, Gail Patrick, and Laird Krieger in The Maltese Falcon. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.

Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Some people like mystery stories because of the intellectual challenge they present. Personally, I'm seldom able to figure out who done it, without skipping to the back of the book.

But give me a good detective story, and like presidents, bankers, housewives, and chorus girls, the country over, I find that my own troubles pulled up their tents like the Arabs and silently steal away. Tonight we point with pride to a triumph of the art.

The Dachau Hammett classic, the Maltese falcon, brought to us by three of our favorite stars, Edward G. Robinson, Gayle Patrick, and Laird Griga. The Warner Brothers screenplay was masterfully written and directed by John Houston, who comes by his talent naturally because he's water Houston's son.

For the next hour we'll follow the eerie trail of this fabulous Falcon, which is coveted by many people to their great ill fortune and to the great ill health of a few. I think most of us have a secret desire to be detectives.

At least that seems to be very true of this audience, because you've done some good practical detective work by discovering dozens of different ways to use Lux flakes. And that doesn't make any of us unhappy.

Nowadays, many familiar materials are doing a wartime job. Nylon and silk are going into parachutes, cotton rayon and wool into uniforms, and many other wartime uses. That means that we on the home front must make the things we have last longer, so that our boys on the fighting fronts will have what they need.