Affairs of Susan

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Joan Pontein, George Brent, and Dom De For in The Affairs of Susan. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Mitchell Leisen. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

It's two days before Halloween, when almost anything can happen. So we're jumping the gunner that ought to introduce Miss Susan Darryl, to whom anything can happen and a lot of things do. owing largely to her own capricious nature and the arrows of outrageous fortune. You meet her in Hal Wallace's production, the affairs of Susan, the

paramount picture, starring Joan Fontaine and what I think we can refer to as the title role, with George Brent and his rival suitor of our drama, Don DeForre's co-star. All are cast in their original screen roles, in America Round's story of a highly unpredictable woman and the four persistent men in love with us. Of Joan

One Fontaine, I have some vivid recollections from the last time I was on location with it. We were shooting a picture up near Albion in Northern California where there was something of a housing shortage.

Joan took a large house and proved a marvelous daytime hostess to our company. Not to be outdone, I made myself proprietor of the local inn, supplying room and board and doubling in the kitchen for the chef.

While the result is I've developed a yen for whipping up special dishes with the slightest excuse. But all my friends realize that they want to spend a weekend on my boat, all they have to do is praise my cooking in their shore of an invitation.

However, I play safe, and I make sure there's a package of lux flakes tucked in with the supplies. And no matter how much of a mess I make of the galley, Carl my steward just reaches for the lux and grins happily as he plunges the dishes into a forming bubbling basin of lux