Naughty Marietta

Flux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddie in North America. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The hearts of America are across the Atlantic tonight and the prayers of America go with her sons in these hours of destiny.

Quite properly, news has the right of way on the air And this performance of the Lux Radio Theater may be interrupted for important news bulletins. Tonight we bring you the glorious voices of Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddie in Victor Herbert's Immortal, Norrie Marietta.

All the thousands of letters which have asked for these two stars together get the best possible answer in the next 59 minutes. Jeanette and Nelson co-starred in the Metro Golden Mayor picture and of all the wholesome entertainment they have given us through the years.

I think this was the most successful. For the story of adventure in New Orleans and those unforgettable melodies that have become a part of America itself, you've known them since you were a child. Songs like Our Sweet Mystery of Life, that I'm falling in love with someone.

You don't have to know the inside workings of the theater to make a guess on what would happen if some Broadway producer hung a sign on his marquee that Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddie were starring in Naughty Marietta.

of course Broadway producers only dream about things like that. But here, thanks to Luxe toilet soap, it can come true. An ordinary theatre might seat 1,500 people. Tonight, the Luxe Radio Theatre audience totals some 30 million.

And so the Broadway production would have to go on for more than 20,000 performances to take care of all of our audience. How long would the play run? Well, the answer seems to be something over 50 years.