Two Years Before the Mast

Lux presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Alan Ladd, Howard De Silva, McDonald Carey and Wanda Hendricks in two years before the mast. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. While naturally, I don't know what your reading preferences are, I'm quite sure that almost all of us have at some time in our lives thrilled to the story of two years before the mast, Richard Henry Dana's violent saga of adventure on the high seas.

Tonight we present the first green version of two years before the mast from Paramount Studios with four of Paramount's outstanding stars, Alan Ladd, Howard De Silva, McDonald carry and want the Hendricks. If you remember Dana's book, you may recall that when he arrived in California from around the Cape, one thing which impressed him was, and I quote, the

beautiful complexions of its women, which they guarded with large man-teers worn about the head. Well, I am sure visitors to California are still impressed by the loveniness of our who nowadays guard those beautiful complexions with luck soap rather than with mantias.

However, that can't be said of California only. Luck soap and beautiful complexions go together wherever wise and lovely women live. It's time to weigh anchor with two years before the mast, starring Alan Ladd as Charles, Howard the silver as Captain Thompson, Mcdonald Carey as Dana, and won the Henrichs as Maria.

Boston Harbor, 1835. The brick children has just tied up at the walls of the Stewart Shipping Company after a record-breaking voyage from California. First aboard her is the ship's owner, who goes at once to the cabin of Captain Thompson. Captain Towson, congratulations, Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, sir. 130 days out of Monterey. It'll be a long