War Against Mrs Hadley

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Edward Arnold and Faye Bainter in The War Against Mrs. Hadley with Gene Rogers and Van Johnson. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

History begins at home. It begins in the homes of Kansas and the Great Western Plain, and plain in the homes of Pittsburgh and the Valley of Steel in the homes of San Francisco and a dozen other cities that turn out the men who build the ships and it begins in a home in Washington called the White House. The sum of all these homes is America and over

every one of them is the shadow of great events in this year gone by. We do not celebrate this day, which marks the first anniversary of our active entrance into the war, we merely note its passing and turn to the challenge of the future.

Tonight we tell you of the way one American home has met this challenge. In the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama, The War Against Mrs. Hadley, and you'll hear four of the players who were in the picture, Edward Arnold and Fay Bader, beloved for many fine performance is here, and two promising newcomers to the stage, Gene Rogers and Van Johnson.

All American homes have faced problems brought on by the war. This is what happened in the home of Stella Hadley, and behind the dramatic story of this one home is inspiration for every home. We're all working hard these days, doing what we can to help, and it's important that none of that effort be wasted. Waste is an enemy that must be fought on every