It Started with Eve

Lux presents Hollywood. That's where your theater brings you. It started with Eve, starring Charles Lawton, Nick Powell and Susanna Foster. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

When in the early months of June, our troops stormed ashore in Normandy, and after bitter fighting established their positions, they later returned behind the lines and saw the first American motion picture to follow the invasion into France.

It was Universal's feature comedy. It started with ease. Tonight's play on the Alex Radio Theater. What it meant to our battle-weary troops in relaxation and diversion, and what it meant to French civilians after four harsh years of German occupation was summed up in a cable to Charles Lawton ending with the words, they loved it.

I think you'll understand why when you hear tonight's play. It's a rollicking story of a young man caught between two sweethearts and a much too energetic father who insists on complicating matters. We star Charles Lawton in his original screen role and Susanna Foster, the lovely universal singing star, and also that versatile gentleman of screen and radio, Dick Powell. Of course, good entertainment isn't the

only thing that will follow our invading armies into France. Soon such simple luxuries as Lux Flake will be back again to help 50 Parisians keep up their tradition of good grooming. Meanwhile the Office of War information permits me to reveal that luck's flake are doing something else to brighten the lives of French civilians.

They're bringing in the same fine radio entertainment that you enjoy, because the OWI is recording and broadcasting many of these plays in French as a friendly gesture from the people of America. Now here's the curtain for the first act of it started with Eve, starring Charles Lawton as Jonathan Reynolds, Susanna Foster as Anne, and Dick Powell as Johnny.