Pride of the Yankees

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees with Virginia Bruce and Edgar Buchanan. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tomorrow afternoon in New York's Yankee Stadium, the exciting cry of play ball will begin another world series. In the clubhouse under the grandstand, as game time comes near, the players will be pulling their uniforms out of the lockers and there'll be jokes and forced play because four players are like that.

But one of those lockers will not be open tomorrow. That locker has never been used by anyone since the day in June 1939 when Lou Gehrig hung up his glove for the last time. time. Blue Gary is one of baseball's immortals. His records are on the books for all to read.

But Gary Cooper is here on this stage not to bring us a baseball story, but a drama of human courage, the story of a man who knew his destiny and faced it without flinching. That story is the one told in Samuel Goldwyn's fine motion picture, The Pride of the Yankees.

From Starring with Gary tonight, we present Virginia Bruce and Edgar Buchanan. Lou Gary is in the Great American tradition, and there certainly is no better choice than Gary Cooper to play the part. I've called on Gary twice in pictures to play heroes from that same tradition, and he's busy with the third one for me now in the story of Dr. Wessel.

You know, this evening is a real occasion on this stage, where it was just nine years ago that Lux toilet soap presented the first play in the Lux Radio Theatre. And do you remember what was happening then?