The Pied Piper

Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck Radio Theater brings you the pride piper, starring Frank Morgan, Margaret O'Brien and Sr. Hasso. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

On the eve of a great national election, I believe there's one thing on which we all agree. That is, that the hope of the world tomorrow rests on the children of today. It is they, the young people, who will make this tired old world a better place in which to live.

Tonight's story, the Pied Piper, a hit picture from 20th Century Fox, tells how a handful of youngsters, trapped by the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, become attached to an amazing old gentleman who is allergic to children.

That amazing old gentleman is played by Frank Morgan, who's making a new picture at Metro Golden Mayor, hold high the torch. And tonight he's supported by Sweden's distinguished actress Tynia Hatzel. And one of the children whom he saves for posterity is seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien, who has recently completed her Metro Golden Mayor technical picture, Meet Me and St. Louis.

Young as she is, Margaret O'Brien is already a veteran of the Lux Radio Theater, having captured all our hearts last season in Lost Angel. I said then, and I repeat now, that I've been watching stars on stage and screen for half a century, and I've never seen a finer emotional actress. And speaking of children, I have in my hand a letter that I wish you could all

see. It's written not only in pencil, but also in braille, the international language of the blinds, and it comes from a group of tight troubled children at a school in Minnesota. These last two lines say, every Monday evening we listen to your Lux Radio Theater and like it very much.