Mister Lucky

Radio David, bring in Cary Grant and ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. The zest and enthusiasm that Cary Grant puts into every performance must convince the most hardened cynic that Cary loves his work. He loved it enough to run away from school at the age of 13 to join a troop of acrobat. He

He loved it at 15 when he was a knockabout comedian in Vodeville. And my guess is that he tried to give just as good a performance then as in these latter days when everybody looks forward to a new Cary Grant picture as an occasion for celebration.

The latest case in point is the RKO hit Mr. Lucky. And starring with Cary and Mr. Lucky tonight is Lorraine Day, one of the screen's really brilliant young actresses. In fact, after seeing her work in Mr. Lucky, I picked her for the leading feminine role in the story of Dr. Wasler with Gary Cooper.

Tonight's play has many surprise twists. On the screen Mr. Lucky made a killing, as he himself would put it. Or in plainer English, the picture hit the jackpot, grew the moolah at the box-up. And that's never a matter of just being lucky.

And producer of a play a picture of a radio drama like these at Lux Flakes bring you on Monday evenings. Can't trust a luck. He's got to rely on hard work, careful planning and casting.

And in these days I am sure the housewife is very sympathetic with that point of view. Shortage of manpower has caused a shortage of many other things. And so in most homes things must be made to last longer than ever.