Blood on the Sun

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you James Kagnie and Sylvia Sidney in Blood on the Sun. Ladies and gentlemen, here's your producer, Mr. William Kealey, who came to Hollywood with one of tonight's stars, James Kagnie, and directed five of Kagnie's most successful pictures, including the bride came COD and the fighting 69th.

Mr. William Kealey. Things from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Shortly before the war, when I was at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, I was amazed at the evidence of fascist might around me. Strutting German officers with swastikas, high-ranking uniformed Italians, and the Imperial Japanese mingling in a fraternity of arrogant aggression.

Now that all that is ground to dust, I wonder more than ever how we managed to mistake the signs that pointed so clearly to Pearl Harbor, that infamous data treachery that we observe this coming Friday. Suddenly as it happened, we know now that Japan's attack was long and carefully planned, following almost to the letter a secret document known as the Tanika

Plan. Tonight's play gives an exciting interpretation of one of the world's great mysteries, the disposition of that document. It is William Cagney's screen hit, Blood on the Sun, starting James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney in their original screen roles. Some time ago it was my privilege to direct Jimmy in a play on Broadway called Penny Arcade, a play which incidentally brought

both Jimmy and Me to Hollywood. And during these lux rehearsals we've had many chats about our old friends on Broadway. I have an interesting letter from one of those old friends, Elizabeth Justice. Elizabeth is an expert to whom literally thousands of theatrical costumes and fabulous stage drebras have been sent for cleansing. You can imagine what a responsibility that