Happy Land

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Donamichi, Francis V, and Walter Brennan in Happy Land. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings once again from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Along the Elm Shaded Main Street, under the smoking factory chimneys, and across the flat prairies of America, That now at tie that binds us all closer together, that's hardly a family in the whole land, who has not sent some loved one into the service of our country.

To all such Americans has come at tribute in the form of a book, and later a distinguished motion picture. The book was Happy Land by McKinley Cantor, and the screen version was made by 20th Century Fox Studio.

Tonight in our radio production, We'll have the same two stars who brought happy land to life on the screen, Donamichi and Francis D. And with them, one of the finest character actors of our day, Walter Brennan.

Happy land is America at its best. The people are your neighbors and mine, and their courage is the courage that will see us through to the end. I've been doing a little traveling these past two weeks, and everywhere that I met and talked to people, it was impressed on me again and again. How much the Lux Radio Theatre means to this audience.

I know now, though I never had any doubts, that you really appreciate what Lux Toilet's Hope is doing in presenting the finest artists of the theatre in fine drama each Monday night. I'd brought back a pocket full of penciled notes on plays you'd like to hear. Happy Land is one of them. So of course we'd set that several weeks ago. And I also brought