Johnny Eager

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, and Van Hefflin in Johnny Eager. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight we welcome back to the Lux Radio Theatre, two gentlemen who are appearing for the first times in returning from the service. They are Robert Taylor, formerly Lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps, and Van Hefflin, a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces.

Both are co-starred with another favorite of the screen and radio, Susan Peters, who has won the admiration not alone of Hollywood, but of all America. Bob appears tonight in one of his outstanding screen performances, Metro Boulburn Mayor's drama, Johnny Iger, with Van Hefflin in the role that won him an Academy award. I'm sure you'll agree that having bard and van back with us lends a pre-war

quality to this exciting drama of suspense, action, love and sacrifice. And speaking of pre-war days, I have a letter from a friend whom I met some years ago while visiting the celebrated ruins of Angkor in French Indochina, commenting on a recent statement that I made, She writes, When you say luck soap is known around the world, it reminds me of an incident

in a small hotel in Java. When I found no soap in the bathroom, I gestured my disappointment to the roomboy. He finally understood, and after a long delay, he came back, smiling broadly, and bearing in his hand to my great joy, a caked of luck soap, with its friendly label printed entirely in javanese.

Well, from my own experience in the Orient, I can readily appreciate just what a luxury that cake of luck soap was to miss Alice McFadden, who so kindly passed the story on to me. It's time now for Act 1 of Johnny Iger, starring Robert Taylor as Johnny, Susan Peters as Elizabeth, and then Hefflin as Jeff.