The Curtain Rises

Hollywood, California, Monday, October 12th. The Lux Radio Theatre presents The Curtain Rises, starring Ginger Rogers and Warren William, with Alan Mobrey and Vary Teesdale. Lux presents Hollywood, our stars, Ginger Rogers, Warren William, Alan Mobrey and Vary Teesdale, our play, The Curtain Rises, our guests, Doris Kenyon, and Mrs. Lila Rogers, dramatic coach, and mother of tonight's leading lady,

Our producer Cecil B. DeMille and our director of music, Lewis Silvers. To you who crowd our theatre tonight and to you millions whose theatre is your home, Greetings from Lux. This hour in Hollywood comes to you with the good wishes of the makers of Luxe Toile itself, the pure white soap whose active, louder and delicate perfume have made Luxe Toile itself

the favorite beauty care used by nine out of ten of Hollywood's leading stars and lovely women everywhere. And now, on with the show, ladies and gentlemen, that distinguished producer of Screen and Radio, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Just 444 years ago today, Christopher Columbus made good his promise to see America first. He discovered a new hemisphere, and we celebrate the occasion by discovering in Ginger Rogers a new star.

It's true that Ginger has appeared in many pictures. She's the young woman of Fort Worth who came to the screen and young man have been happy. As a singer and dancer, she has few if any equals.

Yet every time she asks a producer for a dramatic role, our young star is in the position of Christopher Columbus, who as a young star, was thrown off a ship because the Captain's boy, he'd never be a sailor.

Tonight, however, ginger's ambition to play a straight dramatic role is fulfilled. We shall hear her as Elsa Kaling in the Lux Radio Theatre's drama, The Curtain Rises, by Benjamin K. Playing opposite ginger is Warren William. When a youngster, Warren was the dashing hero who laughed at on rushing locomotives and snarling villains and consistently