Oss

Lux presents Hollywood. Leave a Brothers Company brings you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in OSS. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Lux Radio Theatre's presentation of Paramount's gripping screenplay OSS, starring Alan Ladd in his original role, co-starred with a talented and lovely Veronica Lake.

In introducing tonight's play, I'd like to quote from Major General William J. Donovan, who during the war directed the Office of Strategic Services. He says, while the characters in this motion picture are fictitious, the story is based on a composite of actual incidents in the diversified activities of the Office of Strategic Services, which conducted intelligence, special operations,

and on orthodox methods of warfare in support of allied military operations. It is a tribute to the brave, resourceful men and women living and dead who volunteered for these dangerous assignments. In other words, tonight's play is more than thrilling entertainment.

It is a glimpse into the hazardous, behind-the-lines activities of those loyal Americans who pave the way for victory, whose lives depended hour by hour on meticulous attention to the smallest detail. An agent of the OSS could not afford to look well-fed in a country living on starvation diets, well-dressed among ill-clad people, or well-gruned in a land where soap was nonexistent.

Behind the lines I am sure a lux complexion would have been a certain giveaway among women of the OSS, just as it's a hallmark of good grooming among women in civilian life. In fact, I can think of no better countersign or password for admission to the League of Lovely Women than Lux Toilet Soul.