Old Acquaintance

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux radio theater brings you Alexis Smith, Miriam Hopkins, and Otto Kruger in Old acquaintance. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

When opening night on Broadway reveals a new dramatic hit, that's only the first step in a familiar pattern. stage is spirited bidding among the Hollywood studios for the picture right. The third step is one we try to take care of. Making the drama's path of glory lead right to the Lux Radio Theatre. Tonight's play proves the point. John

Van Douten's drama, Hold acquaintance, had a long run on Broadway. One of brothers made the picture success and this evening, Hold acquaintance holds the spotlight here with Miriam Hopkins, Alexis Smith and and Otto Kruger.

We asked Mrs. Hopkins to cut short a New York vacation to play the same part with us she played on the screen. And Alexis Smith comes to us direct from her hit performance in the Warner Brothers picture, The Adventures of Mark Twain, which Jesse Lasky produced.

Old acquaintance turns the playwright's magnifying glass on the emotions of two women and picks out the amazing story that's concealed under the fame and fortune and happiness that appears on the surface. About this time every year, I turn judge for a while, and our job for a producer, but it happens to tie in very well

with producing plays that are backed by luck's toilet soap. The judging in this case is not in law or equity, but in beauty. Along toward graduation time, students of schools and colleges sometimes ask me to take my life in my hands by selecting the most beautiful girl in the graduating class.