Dixie

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour in Dixie with Barry Sullivan. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

This town has given me many unforgettable memories, but none clearer than the sight of Bing Crosby and Blackface and Sideburns, wearing a shirt that might have been made from one of Dorothy Lamour's surrounds. bicycling down a street on the Paramount lot puffing gently on a pipe and warbling one of the tunes from Dixie.

That was the day I wrote Santa Claus and asked him to bring us Dixie for Christmas. Being, having just finished the picture going my way at Paramount, accepted Santa's invitation to go our way. And then the old gentleman delivered in prodigal style by bringing us Darathila Moore and Barry Sullivan in the same package.

Barry is the promising young actor who makes his big-time debut in Paramount's Lady in the Dark. Dixie is the story of a song that's been on the hit parade for about 100 years, and tonight you'll hear Bing Singh Dixie and some of the other great hits of the picture.

By bringing you tonight's play, I think Lux Flakes provides the perfect opportunity to relax before your last minute Christmas shopping. For months now, the people of America have been accustomed to buying fewer things and making the old ones last longer.

That's certainly much less fun than getting a new car, new clothes, a new refrigerator or a pothavio. But it does represent a real contribution to the nation. And by helping to keep things looking new in the Department of Washable Fabrics, Luxflakes makes the whole idea easier to take.