Madame Curie

Lux presents Hollywood! The Lux Radio Theater brings you Greg Garson and Walter Pigeon in Madame Curie. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keelley. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

You've heard a great deal lately about a magic substance called uranium, the key to radioactivity and atomic power. Yet half a century ago from that same substance came a discovery that promised untold benefits to man and added greatly to our knowledge of atomic energy.

Our play tonight from Metro Golden Mayor's epic screenplay, Madame Curie, deals not only with that thrilling search for radium, but with a man and woman whose love for each other was as great as their love for humanity and truth, and who both fought for sacrifice and courage.

Another wonder that this drama called for two of the screen's outstanding stars, Greer Gosson and Walter Fijen, who tonight appear in their original screen roles as Madame Curie and Pierre-Ha-Husband, the greatest roles I think that we've ever seen them in together.

In a sense the story of Madame Curie is a never-ending one, the eternal quest for new and better things to serve mankind. Certainly that quest is deeply rooted in our North American way of life, whether it applies to rockets pointed at the moon, to music, books, motion pictures, or to a simple luxury

like lux toilet soap. We have sticklers for perfection, and the millions of women who depend on lux soap for their beauty care are testimony of that urge to settle only for the very best. I know their insistence on lux soap is well rewarded. Onward our play and the first act of Madame Curie starring Greer Garson in the title role and Walter