Appointment for Love

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Fair air brings you Olivia Deheveland and Paul Lucas in Appointment for Love. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In motion pictures, a straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points. Take the case of Paul Lucas. After making ten or twelve pictures for ten or twelve years here in Hollywood, he was suddenly discovered all over again on Broadway.

Watch on the Rhine was the play that turned the trick. When Mr. Lucas played that same part on the screen for Warner Brothers, the result was the Academy Awards. Tonight he's here in the Lux Radio Theater to co-star with the talented Olivia de Havilland, who finished high school and began starring in pictures in almost the same breath.

She's been making the screen look lovely or ever since. And just recently I added a brighter note to the scenery and the illusion islands, of which more later. Tonight we've cast these stars in Universal's gay romance, Appointment for Love.

The appointment in this instance is between a famous playwright and a woman doctor, whose career puts a few rocks in the road to romance. In these days the audience for one of our play is just about covers that glow.

And many of the men in khaki and blue who used to join us at home now join us overseas. Many of them are also self-appointed ambassadors for such comfort of home as luck flakes. A photograph has just come in showing a sergeant in the midst of doing his washing somewhere in Australia.

The washtub is steaming away over a small wood fire, and there are tents in the background, under a grove of eucalyptus trees. I've never heard very many soldiers celebrate the joys of washing clothes, but the sergeant in the photograph is grinning broadly.