The Unguarded Hour

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater brings you the unguarded hour, starring Robert Montgomery, Lorraine Day and Roland Young. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

On a certain day last June, a nine-inch shell from a German shore battery crashed on the deck of the United States destroyer, Barton, off the coast of France, and fortunately failed to explode. We can thank that happy accident for the appearance tonight of our leading man, Lieutenant Commander Robert Montgomery of the United States Naval Reserve.

Most of you read last week that Commander Montgomery had received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement as operations officer on an American destroyer during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. I'm sure we're all very proud of Bob, and give him our sincerest congratulations.

Among the first things on Bob's schedule, now that he's released from active duty, are a picture for Metro Golden Mayor, and tonight's appearance on the Lux Radio Theater. The picture he is making is titled, Very Well Expendable, based on the book by William L. White.

And our play tonight is The Unguarded Hour, based on the screen-hit of Metro Golden Mayor, whose picture 30 seconds over Tokyo as its world premiere in Hollywood tonight. In the unguarded hour, co-starring with Bob, is the ever-lovely Lorraine Day, and the ever-entalented Roland Young.

And together, they bring us one of the screen's most baffling and exciting mysteries. If at any point at tonight's play you can guess the ending, you're either a genius or a magician. And speaking of magicians, I have a letter written in a round and childish hand from one of our young listeners who tells me about a party at our school.