The Jazz Singer

Lux presents Hollywood. Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Al Jolson and Gayo Patrick in The Jazz Singer, with Ludwig Donov and Tamara Shane. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. I'll wager that no popular performer has so captured our American enthusiasm as tonight star Al Jolson for years billed as the world's greatest entertainer. Al appears in Samson Raphlson's dramatic hit that is almost Jolson's life story.

When Warner Brothers made the first talking picture, they chose not only tonight's play, the jazz singer, but tonight star Al Jolson and tonight's musical director, Lewis Silvers. With Al, we star another favorite in this Gale Gayle Patrick, who appears as Mary Dale.

Twenty years ago, when the jazz singer reached the screen, it revolutionized the motion picture industry, a tribute to the American people's continual search for something new and better. In fact, it was that same national trade of ours that led to the development of Lux Flakes, and their rapid acceptance throughout the country.

Today, Lux Flakes are as familiar and popular in our homes as the talking picture in our theaters. And in their way, Lux Blake's have done as much to brighten the average woman's life and contribute to her leisure hours as have the many other American conveniences we take so much for granted.

Yes, public approval rests on performance. And here's another example as we raise our curtain on tonight's play, the jazz singer starring Al Joltzmann. In New York's East Side, opposite the Orchard Street in a god is the humble home of cantor of benefits, an austere and venerable dignitary whose beard has grown white in the service of his faith. At his side is a young boy who struggles