Margie

Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux toilets hope. Bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Jean Crane and Glenn Langen in Margie. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

For me and I think probably for you, the memories of high school are the gayest, pleasantest and most nostalgic of all. And tonight in that nostalgic vein, we take you back to 1928, a year of raccoon coats, flagpole sitters, miniature golf and rumble seat romances, a crazy colourful romantic period that forms the backdrop of our play from 20th century fox's screen hit, Margie.

You'll meet the original stars, Jean Crane as Margie and Glenn Langen, one of Hollywood's most promising young leading men in his first appearance on our stage. Many things have changed since the flaming twenties of our play, but one fashion that still prevails is Luxoep for complexion care. Even in 1928 it was the beauty soap of film stars, and

while the Luxo Radio Theater had yet to be born, the early popularity of Luxoep was, I'm sure, already laying the foundations for this, the greatest national theatre in the world. It's curtain time, and here's Act 1 of Margie, starring Jean Crane in the title role, and Glenn Langen as Mr. Fontaine, with Jane Darwell as Grandma and Barbara Lawrence as Mary Bell.

It's a rainy Saturday afternoon, and in the attic of a pleasant little house in a pleasant little town, a young mother and her teenage daughter are rummaging through a dusty collection of trunks and boxes. The daughter has discovered an old phonograph and a carton of records.