The Petrified Forest

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Ronald Coleman and Susan Hayward in the Petrified Forest with Lawrence Tierney. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Thomas Mitchell. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Top billing is the ambition of every actor, and we are fortunate in having on our stage tonight a man who holds the long distance record as a top star in motion pictures. I'll not forget that my first appearance before the camera was with Ronald Coleman in Lost Horizon.

Perhaps one reason for his long record would be that his elixir material would care. And that's why running is with us tonight, in Robert Sherwood's exciting drama, The Petrified Forest. He appears with that talented young actress Susan Hayward, as the man and woman whom fate dramatically brings together in one of the strangest love stories of our time.

outstanding Broadway state success, the petrified forest takes place in the 1930s, when Americans still thrung the highways, and the roadside tavern was the outpost of a restless nation, a meeting place for every type of traveler from wealthy tourists to Arm Desperado. And the Arm Desperado in our cast is the new RKO actor, Lawrence Tierney, who has just finished

playing the title role in the screening of the Dylan Jet. We bring you tonight's play on the birthday of the father of the English theatre, William Shakespeare, since Shakespeare's time of course, the theatre has grown immeasurably in scope and I dare say, popularity. In fact, you could find no better example than this stage of ours, which raises its curtain every

Monday night to an audience of many millions in return for their loyalty to Lux Flix. And If your attendance is rewarded, and I hope it always will be, by the best in Hollywood stars and plays, I'm sure your loyalty to Lux flakes is rewarded by longer life to precious fabrics and pleasanter easier ways to care for them.