The Devil and Miss Jones

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you the devil and Miss Jones, starring Frank Morgan, Linda Darnell and Gordon Oliver. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Brian Ahern. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

An unnamed philosopher once made this simple observation, that when you look through your window, you see the crowds in the street, the world on parade. When you look in your mirror, you see only yourself.

So both are made of glass with this small difference that one has a coating of silver added, and that difference can apply to human beings. Add enough silver to a man, he often ceases to consider others and sees no one but himself.

And that is the premise of our play tonight, which takes place several years before the war. But I can assure you that all further moralizing stops at once, for this is no weighted drama of social significance.

It is rather one of the screen's most entertaining comedy, The Devil and Miss Jones, presented through courtesy of Frank Ross, producer of the technical spectacle, The Road. In the Devil's Corner, with no intended prejudice, we have the irrepressible Frank Morgan, who soon be seen in Metro Golden Mares, the Great Morgan.

As the angelic member of tonight's cast, we have the altogether lovely Linda Darnell. And as a gentleman who literally raises Hades, we present that up-and-coming screen star Gordon Oliver. Together they bring you the story of a modern merchant prince, who, in the early 1930s, walks in disguise among the common folk with the most uncommon consequences.

I spoke earlier of looking out of the window versus looking in the mirror. Once the point of that parallel has been established, let me hasten to add that I have no objection to mirrors in their contribution to humanity. Certainly they have hoped to make women still more beautiful in many ways, and not the least of these, is showing them how luxe toilet soap