Gallant Journey

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Glen Ford and Janet Blair in Gallant Journey. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

About 100 miles from here is a new and shining monument to a strangely overlooked event, NAN's first control flight in an airplane. A momentous and dramatic incident, which Columbia Pictures have helped immortalize in their current screen hit, Gallant Journey.

Our stars tonight, Glenn Ford and Janet Blair, appear in their original screen roles. Glenn being Canadian-born, we are especially glad to have him with us, to help us extend greetings to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its 10th anniversary.

Galen Jerny is more than the story of a great invention. It's also the story of a great love, a man and woman who together storm the skies and give humanity its wings. Speaking of wings, I have a letter from Miss Betty Fleming, a stewardess on Pan American World Airways, largest airline in the world.

He writes, I fly by clipper from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Honolulu and New Zealand, and we pass through almost every kind of climate, from tropical heat to freezing cold. Of course that's hard on anyone's complexion, but I found Lux Toilet Soap is a wonderful health, in keeping my skin soft and smooth.

It travels with me every flight I make. Well, knowing the standard of attractiveness among airline stewardesses, we are doubly grateful to Ms. Fleming, and we wish her many gallant journeys with Lux Toileth's Hope. On to the first act of tonight's play, starring Glenn Ford as John Montgomery and Janet Blair as Regina.

The year is 1883. A lot of things happened that year. The Brooklyn Bridge was opened, Richard Wagner died, Germany, Austria, and Italy signed the Triple Alliance, and the Russians crowned a new czar. You'll find all that in the history books, but something else was happening that most history books overlook.