Five Graves to Cairo

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater brings you Prancho Tone and An Baxter in Five Grades to Cairo. With auto-premise, Jay Carole Nash and Portunio Bonanova. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. De Laer.

Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. All the world loves the lover, and all the world loves the mystery. Tonight, we make everybody doubly happy by combining romance and mystery in Five Grays, the Cairo. And we have the same stars who made millions of hearts Kippabeat, or perhaps two, with their adventures in that Paramount picture.

Prancho Tone and Anne Baxa. This week we borrowed Prancho from the cast of the new Paramount hit, Two to Life. The studio grapevine has a way of picking up advanced tips on promising pictures, and one branch of that grapevine leads straight into my office.

My spies all reported that the team of producer Charles Brackett and director Billy Wilder had created a triumph of suspense in Five Grave, Chicago. So we had our bid in for the radio rights before the shooting had even finished it.

The setting of the play is the Egyptian desert at the high tide of the German advance and the people are a British soldier, a young French girl, and a rather well-known Nazi general by name, Marshall Erwin Rommel.

We invite you to join our hero in matching wits with the Marshall and turn your ingenuity on the strange secret of the five graves in the African sand. We find ingenuity a well-known American quality much in use by our fighting man abroad in meeting the problems of everyday living in faraway places.

As a prime example, I point to an Air Force sergeant in New Guinea who has sent his mother in Kentucky a snapshot showing his tent with a box of lux flakes in a prominent position.