Guest in the House

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Robert Young and Anne Baxter in Guest in the House. Ladies and gentlemen, your new producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

May I take this opportunity to thank you all for your many letters and wires of congratulations following my appointment as producer in this theatre. Your kind support and your helpful suggestions will be always welcome, and I hope that we can work together closely through the coming seasons.

A few years ago, I directed a picture that you may remember, the man who came to dinner. It advanced the premise that guests are not always an undivided blessing, and that hospitality is often direly rewarded. In a deeper and more serious name, such as the premise of our play tonight, Hunt's Stromberg psychological thriller,

Guest in the House, which came to the screen after 45 successful weeks on Broadway. Our host in tonight's play, whose Appleful Manor would make anybody feel at home, is Robert Young, while the charming to look at visitor is Miss Anne Baxter playing her original screen roll. The title guest in the house suggests to most of us, I am sure, an atmosphere of

hospitality and warmth. An extra place at dinner, flowers in the spare room, and a fresh cake of lux toilet soap beside the guest's towels. For modern hostesses are well aware that a friendly cake of lux soap adds a cheerful note of welcome in the home, and not only helps to put a bright complexion on affairs in general, but also a lovely complexion on the guest in the house.

However, present as these thoughts are, such is not the temper of our play. For ours is a drama of suspense and fear. The story of a great love in the shadow of a haunting terror.