Whistle Stop

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater brings you Alan Lad and Evelyn Keyes in Whistle Stop. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keating. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

We bring you tonight a screenplay only recently released. That is broken box office records for its studio from coast to coast, and continues to sweep the country with a claim. It is Seymour Nevenzal's dramatic screen hit, Whistle Stop, based on the best-selling novel of the same name.

And our stars are Alan Lad in the two-fisted type of role that made him famous, and the talented and lovely Evelyn Keyes. As perhaps you know, Whistle Stop denotes a lonely wayside station where express trains stop on signal only.

a new arrival, mainly in anything from a visiting relative to romance and adventure. Speaking of those wayside towns and villages and the people who inhabit them, I can't help wondering how many are members of our weekly audience.

Or as you know, this theatre of yours is the biggest theatre in the world. From close to close, from city flat to lonely, whistle stop stations, it embraces an audience of many, many millions whose only admission is their loyalty to Locks Flakes.

And from the countless letters we receive, that loyalty is well rewarded. Especially in this time of shortages, Locks Flakes are doing their part in helping preserve those often scarce and precious fabrics. To the sound of clicking rails and rumbling wheels, our curtain rises on Act 1 of Whistle stop, starting Alan Ladd as Kenny Deach and Evelyn Keys as Mary, with Edwin Max as Gitlow,

and a vent has just taken place in an obscure Michigan village. The express train out of Chicago has ground to an impatient stop at the tiny depot and is charged a passenger. In the uncertain light of dawn, she walked down the dirt road, her expensive shoes flicking up a little with line of dust. Half a mile down the road she reaches an old