Air Force

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you George Rath and Harry Carey in Air Force. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Ladies and Hollywood ladies and gentlemen, millions of Americans will never forget one certain moment of their lives.

The moment on December 7, 1941, when that news came from Pearl Harbor, I was sitting quietly at home going over a Lux Radio Theatre play When my daughter rushed in from next door to tell me it had happened.

If it made such an impression on me quietly reading a manuscript at home, think what it meant to the crew of a flying fortress when they learned that news a few hours away from Hawaii.

It's the story of this crew and their plane, the Marianne, that's told tonight in Air Force. Warner Brothers made the motion picture, and it's one of the finest tributes the screen has yet paid to the men of the United States Army Air Forces.

Now it's radio's turn, and our cast for Air Force is headed by George Raft and Harry Carey. I think it's only fair to call the night's play a love story, because when a plane has carried men safely through a rain of death and brought them home again, when they've dared the impossible together and done it, there's something between that plane and its

crew that's almost, well, almost akin to love. celestial navigation takes mathematics, and a member of our production staff with a mathematical turn of mind has just calculated the total of all the audiences that have listened to the Lux Radio Theatre for the past nine years. It comes to about four times the population