Kentucky

Luxe presents Hollywood. The Luxe Radio Theater brings you Lorraine Day, Walter Brennan, and Tom Drake in Kentucky. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Mitchell Leifen. And the committee.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Next week on Saturday the 9th of June, all roads will lead when stirred anyway to Louisville, Kentucky. And they're running at that great turf classic, the Kentucky Derby. Founded almost three-quarters of a century ago and fed by the highest traditions of the track, the Derby is not only the nation's most popular sporting event, it's becoming

an American institution. Its entries are a roster of the great names in the history of racing. War Admiral, son of man of war, bubbling over, gallant fox and whirl away. The Derby is a living symbol of the competition and good sportsmanship Americans so dearly loved.

Our play tonight Kentucky from the studios of 20th Century Fox is a saga of that rolling bluegrass country where the fairbred is king of the domain. Her family pride and fierce tradition clash in a thrilling climax every year at Churchill Down.

Start in tonight's cast as Sally Goodwin is the charming and versatile Lorraine Day, also Walter Brennan who brings to the airwaves one of his most distinguished screen impersonations. And finally, in his first appearance on this stage, we have Tom Drake, who's rise to stardom as one of Hollywood's most promising events.

In a newspaper description of the very first Kentucky Derby, the stand reserved for ladies was described as, quote, one grand bouquet of beauty, unquote. The girls with their parasols appeared to the reporter as so many party colored butterflies in the slanting rays of the sun.