Are Husbands Necessary

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you George Burns and Gracie Allen in our husband's necessary. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil P. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

One cold winter's night, 12 years ago, an unsuspecting nation turned on the radio and discovered George Burns and Gracie Allen. The microphone hasn't been the same since. Naturally, we are all a bit nervous in the Lux radio theater tonight, but you understand that if anything unusual happens, it's due to circumstances entirely beyond our control.

This week we borrowed George and Gracie from their usual Q-denite habitat to appear in a full-length play, what they'll do to it no one can predict. But though the setting is different, it's the same George and Gracie you've always known and love, who star in the paramount comedy success our husbands necessary.

In the play George works in a bank and Gracey considers it her duty as a wife to help his career along as his bankers didn't have enough trouble on their hands already. We have a little complaint on our hands tonight too.

It's from a lady in Toronto who writes, we listen every Monday to your Lux Radio Theatre. You always talk about women and luck. think you're overlooking something important. My daughter and I are volunteer workers at the Air Force lunch canteen. When the boys step up to our counters to get coffee and sandwiches,

we frequently see a box of luck flake tucked under one arm. We've come to the conclusion that some mother, wife or sweetheart, has told them how to take care of those sucks and sweaters that have been knitted for them. My own son, an engineer officer in the Canadian Navy takes luck flakes on board ship with it. I'd say the lady from Toronto has something