The Phantom of the Opera

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Nelson Eddie, Susanna Foster, and Basil Rathbone in The Phantom of the Opera with Edgar barrier. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

A Broadway first night thrills with a few hundred people who can enjoy the play. A Hollywood premiere is exciting for the few thousands who gather to see the stars. But opening night in the Lux Radio Theater belongs to the millions, the millions in American homes and camps from coast to coast, and it belongs to our boys in uniform beyond the

seas who join us for the first performance of our tenth season. The real adventure is not in the lights of the crowds, but in the historic privileges of the theatre, in hearing a famous star score again in a brand new role, and in the joy of discovering a new star. All that is yours tonight, when we present Nelson Eddie and Susanna

Foster in their new universal technical success, the Phantom of the Opera, and with them, in one of the theatre's most interesting parts, we bring you Basil Rathbong. It's the first of a big parade of stars and plays that will challenge your attention and our ingenuity. Tonight's play has the thrill of mystery, the gayety of comedy, and to stop

everything else one of the great singing voices of our day, the romantic baritone of Nelson Eddie. And if that isn't the right way to start the lux radio theatre off on another season, I don't know how to find it. We hope to make this season the best in our history, and we counting on you to help us make it the best. By help I don't mean just buying Lux Toilet