The Phantom Lady

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Brian Hernd, Ella Rain, and Alan Curtis in the Universal Screenplay, The Phantom Lady. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

We must thank Edgar Allan Poe for the modern mystery story. But I'm sure this genius of a century ago never dreamed that his brainchild would turn into big business. that authors, publishers, magazine editors, and producers of plays and motion pictures by the hundreds would labor into the wee small hours for the avowed purpose of scaring the daylights out of customers.

The day the mystery is the favorite form of American entertainment. So many are written that they can't all be good. But here we can afford to wait for the best, and we have a classic of the art tonight.

It's a screen hit called The Phantom Lady. It's making the cashmark jingle out of Universal Way. And starring in the play, we have Brian Ahern and two of Universal's most promising players. The brand-new discovery, Ella Rains and Alan Curtis.

An odd thing about The Phantom Lady is that we let you know who the murderer is rather early in the proceeding. But that very thing makes this manhunt, or rather ladyhunt, even more exciting. The young lady in the play turns out to be a very competent detective, thereby filling a rather serious lack in world literature.

Up to now our hard-working writers have given us some immortal names, like Sherlock Holmes, Philo Vance, and Bulldog Drummond, but very few feminine suits. Naturally, the negative luck toilet soap are only too happy to help supply this lack, because our sponsors have known right along that the ladies of America were sleuths of the first