Standing Room Only

Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck's radio theater brings you sending room only, starring Paul at Goddard and Fred McMurray. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Not long ago, I heard of a man who visited our capital city of Washington, which readers digest calls America's number one boom town.

Not wanting to bother his friends late at night, He took what accommodations he could get. These consisted of a cop in a corner of an apartment house lobby for which he paid $14. In addition, he was charged $5 for keeping his car in the parking lot, this he put up with.

But when he went to get his car the next morning, he found two men sleeping in the. He ordered them out, but they refused to budge. They said they'd paid the proprietor $3 a piece to sleep there.

I guess that's only one of many such reports from the dizzy world of wartime Washington. And tonight's play on the Lux Radio Theatre is another and considerably more exciting story. It's the Paramount comedy hit Standing Ramonley, and our stars are the delightful Paulette Goddard and the personable Fred McMurray in their original screen-roll.

Take a bundle of surprises, wrap them up in Washington red tape, and you have the ingredients of tonight's play, in which an intriguing young couple find themselves very much in difficulty and end up, well, you'll see how they end up.

From having seen Washington recently, I can speak from personal experience of the conditions so amusingly presented in tonight's play. I visited one executive in an office curiously furnished with white tile and chromium. He reluctantly admitted it was a converted bathroom.