I Never Left Home

Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck's Radio Theatre brings you, I never left home, starring Bob Hope, Francis Langford, Jerry Colona, and Tony Romano. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil D. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

This evening, the Luck's Radio Theatre depots from precedent to bring you the radio dramatization of a book. It's a book that since its publication on June 15, 1944 has sold over a million and a half copies and its publishers, Simon and Schuster, believe it stands a good chance of selling a million and a half more.

I'm speaking of Bob Hope's report on 11 million magnificent Americans called I Never Left Home. For some time it was sold out, but I'm told that now you can get a copy. All the prophets from I never left home have been contributed by Bob to the National War Fund.

It's not hard to understand why if you know Bob Hope, or if you read the preface to his book, in which Bob says, I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweet heart.

I saw how they worked, played, fought and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw American minds, American skill, and American strength breaking the backbone of evil. I had a worm-dye view of what war is.

Dying is sometimes easier than living through it. But this is not a book about the serious side of war. That's not my field. All I want you to know is that I did see your sons and daughters in the uniforms of the United States of America, fighting for the United States of America.

and I could ask for no more, sign Bob Hope. And now Bob brings us the more amusing highlights of his tour of many battlefront. With him on our stage tonight are the popular and charming singer Francis Langford, comedian Jerry Colona, and guitar strumming Tony Romano, all of whom with Bob on his overseas trip, like Bob and so many other people