Libel

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater brings you Ronald Coleman in libel, with Edna Best and Otto Groover. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

The American picture public has often been accused of being pickled, of raising a player to the heights of stardom one day, and tossing him into a obscure day the next. I don't think the charge is valid. The public is always faithful to the true artist, and as Exhibit A for that argument, I give you Mr. Ronald Coleman. On his part, Mr. Coleman

never does a picture or a radio play unless he believes the story will interest the public. And I think that tonight's story is, for all practical purposes, the perfect radio play. Edward Wools' Broadway dramatic hit, Libel.

And to do justice to both our play and star, we've gathered an unusually fine cast, headed by Otto Kruger and Ed the Best. Libel is a drama of the courtroom, and of the man who calls himself Sir Mark Lodden.

This man must go to the witness stand to try to prove his right to that name. And when he does, he sees the shadow of doubt across even the face of his wife. You of the Lux Radio Theater audience are the spectators at this trial.

Each one of you has a reserved seat, just as you always have in this National Theater every Monday night with the compliments of Lux's toilet soap. Through the years we've seen a whole cavalcade of dramas pass in review across this stage, acted by the finest talent Hollywood can provide.

These Monday evening dramas are really a national family custom. In bringing you these plays each week, and this is the ninth season of the Lux Radio Theatre, we naturally hope that more and more of you will give our product a fair trial.