Penny Serenade

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux radio theater brings you Irene Dunn and Joseph Cotton in Penny Serenade with Edgar Buchanan. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Somewhere in the life of every man and woman, there's a book or a play if the true story were known, but many people miss half the joy of living

because they see only routine dullness in their own lives instead of drama. In Penny Serenade, there's all the excitement of great events in the simple everyday incidents of one home. There's something truly universal about this story of one man and one woman whose faith in each other has been lost along the way, but who have the courage to reach out again

for happiness. It's a play that makes high demands on its stars. So tonight we have the same talented artist you saw in the Columbia picture, Ms. Irene Dunn. And co-starring with us is one of the important discoveries of recent Hollywood history, Joseph Cotton.

Irene, incidentally, has just returned from New York, where her new Metro Golden Mayor picture, White Cliffs of Dover, is opening this week. You know, there's quite a story behind the production of any one of our plays.

Actually, it begins in stores all over the nation, when you go in and ask for luck's flakes. But here in this theatre, it begins with the selection of a script from the best that Broadway and Hollywood have to offer.

In the casting, our stars come first, but the same careful attention is given to even the smallest bit parts. And then all the different elements meet at rehearsals, with actors, writers, engineers, sound technicians, musicians and stagehands, each a part of a human machine that does the job.