Jane Eyre

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Orson Welles and Loretta Young in Jane Eyre. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

This is the beginning of a busy week for me with Gary Cooper and the story of Dr. Wasl opening in New York tomorrow night and here in Hollywood on Wednesday. And tonight, the week is certainly off to a wonderful start, with two of our town's most accomplished artists in one of the immortal love stories of the English language,

La Rata Young and Orson Weld in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brante wrote Jane Eyre almost a century ago, and yet in a world at war, this tempestuous story of the emotions is a bigger success than ever, for several new additions of the novel have appeared in the last few months.

and the recent 20th century Fox picture version has been one of the hits of the motion picture year. Tonight, you'll hear Orson Wells at Edward Rochester, the same role he played in the picture. And as the lovely Jane Eyre, we have the lovely Loretta Young.

We'll go back to England of the 19th century on a past sailing packet astonished the world by crossing the ocean in 16 days. A dictator with delusions of world conquest had just been exiled to a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and the richest duchess in England would have traded all her beauty secrets

for one case of Lux Turletville. And so if the gay, well, 19th century society seems more exciting than keeping house, you should remember the Duchess of 1820, who'd be happy to exchange places for an automobile, electric lights, or little modern luxuries, like that cake of Lux Turletville.