How Green Was My Valley

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux radio theatre brings you Walter Pigeon, Donald Chris, Marina Hera, Roddy McDowell and Sarah Allgood in How Green Was My Valley. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

When our curtain rises tonight, it will disclose a scene far removed from the battle scarred world we live in now. The scene out of yesterday's world. I'd like the little girl who stepped through the looking grass.

You're invited to cross the footlights and spend an hour with the sturdy people of how green was my valley. From the original cast of this Academy Award picture, we have Walter Pigeon, now starring in Metro Golden Mayor's White Cargo, and Donald Chris, Marina Hara, Roddy McDowell, Sarah Olgood, and a chorus of Welsh singers.

Besides the award won by this 20th Century Fox production, how green was my valley brought another Academy Award to Donald Chris for the finest performance of the year by our supporting actor. And then the Academy made it a triple play by presenting John Ford with the award for the recty. And before any of this happened, Richard Llewellyn's novel had been a bestseller,

so tonight's play comes well recommended. It's a story of a little Welsh coal mining community, a place where life, love and drama go hand in hand, because every descent into the depths of the earth must always be a perilous adventure for the men who dig out its wealth.

From soldier and stenographer from farmer and factory worker have come letter after letter suggesting how green was my valley for this theater. So many in fact they stopped being suggestions and became a command. So this is a command performance for all the friends of Luxe toilet soap.