Casablanca

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Hedy Lamar, Alan Ladd, and John Loder in Casablanca with Edgar barrier. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

One bright January morning, just a year ago, the city of Casablanca in French Morocco woke up and found itself famous. It had entertained many mysterious visitors from a world of war, but never before the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Within a few days, Warner Brothers had rushed their screen drama, Casablanca, to the theaters of the nation, and people marveled at a Hollywood miracle. Actually, of course, the picture had been planned and filmed during the months previous, because Casablanca had an exciting story to tell, even before the President and Prime Minister arrived. It's a story of love and hate, and a background of adventure,

and sudden death. Tonight we bring you that drama with a cast that producers dream about. Eddie Lamar, and Alan Ladd, and John Loda. Eddie came back to town last week from Texas, with the applause of the soldiers at Camp Hood still ringing in her ears. And so we borrowed her from Metro Gorgon Mayor, where she's just completed the picture, Heavenly Body.

Alan Ladd, of course, came to us from Paramount. I'm hoping to have Alan for my next picture following the story of Dr. Wessel. Getting these players together in one drama is a talent scoop of the first magnitude in Hollywood, and it's unlikely that it would ever happen in a picture, because our stars

are under contract at different studios, and are kept so busy on their home lots that they they aren't loaned out as the phrase goes. We really should thank Luxe toilet soap for making this occasion possible. Every bit of work and artistry that has gone into our production from the first word of the script on paper with a final dress rehearsal has been designed