Intermezzo

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater brings you Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton in Inter-Metso. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Hal Wallace. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The theater is always sentimental about its landmarks, and certainly one of the milestones of the screen was Ingrid Bergman's first American appearance in the picture Inter-Metso.

So her performance gave us a foretaste of the charm and talent that won this year's Academy Award, and established her as one of the outstanding actresses of Modern Times. Miss Bergman's on our stage tonight in the same exciting role that launched her Hollywood career.

I had the privilege of producing two of Miss Bergman's pictures, and I've also had the privilege of working with her co-star in tonight's cast and watching his meteoric rise to stardom, Joseph Cotton. Earlier in this tenth anniversary season of our theater, we asked you to pick the plays and personalities you wanted most to hear.

I'm divulging no surprises when I say that Mr. Cotton and Ms. Bergman were strong favorites on your list. Our play from David O. Selznick's Intermezzo is of course a love story, but of a provocative and different pattern.

A story of genius found by two loyalties divided by two loves. Incidentally, the Lux Radio Theater introduced Ingrid Bergman to the American radio audience, when she first returned from Sweden several years ago. Since then, both she and Joseph Cotton have been good friends of our theater just as you have.

We're grateful for that friendship, grateful too for your loyalty to Lux Soap. Through your continued purchases of this fine product, you've become the real sponsor of this theater. And I think Lux Toile It Soap has its own way of saying, thank you in the excellent complexion care it offers.