Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Lux presents Hollywood! The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Margarito Brian, James Craig and Francis Kifford in Our Vines Have Tender Grates. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm sure that many of us think of Labor Day not only as an end to summer but as a start of a purposeful and promising new season. And in keeping with that boy in spirit, we bring you tonight a play as heartwarming as the smile of our little leading lady, a star who has always been a favorite of this theatre,

just as she's a favorite of moviegoers everywhere. I refer, of course, to Margaret O'Brien, playing her original screen role in Metro Golden Mares, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. Co-starred with Margaret is the ever-popular James Craig, whose personality and talent are winning new fans every day. Also, the charming Francis Gifford, whose rise to

stardom I have watched with greatest interest. Like Margaret, they appear in their original screen roles in this delightful story of a little girl who brings faith and sunshine into the lives of a community typically American, although its people came from distant Norway. I was reminded of Norway on a trip Mrs. Keeley and I made this summer in British Columbia. We cruised among the

typically Norwegian fjords of Princess Louisa Inlet, a seaway, peaceful, lovely, and majestic. When we found that the captain of the Malibu Arrow had provided a generous quantity of Lux toilet soap, I suspected it had been done for our benefit, as a friend or a reminder of my pleasant work in Hollywood.

But he assured me that on the contrary, Lux soap was a regular passenger on all the boats his company chartered. In fact, wherever I traveled north of the water, I found that our Canadian friends are as loyal to Lux Toilet Soap as we are, and are equally loyal members of our audience each