Saratoga Trunk

Lux presents Hollywood. Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Ida Lupino and Zachary Scott in Saratoga Trunk. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Speaks from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't believe any place in America holds more fabulous memories than Saratoga. Saratoga, where the bow-brummels of the 1890s and their fashionable ladies, squandered fortunes at the racetrack and the gaming tables, and sipped champagne beneath tall porticoes and crystal gandalabra.

Tonight we recapture that atmosphere of glamor and excitement with Warner Brothers' green-hit Saratoga trunk from Edna Ferber's novel of the same name. And our stars are Idelipino carrying on the high traditions of one of the theater's oldest families and Zachary Scott as her romantic leading man.

A description of Saratoga in the 90s, written by a local columnist, describes not only the smarter tire of the bells of the period, but the smoothness of their delicate complexions, guarded always by an ornate parasol.

Well, that's one way to protect a lovely complexion, but I'm sure today smart women depend more on luck's toilet soap as a better, more convenient beauty care. And the results apparent, I believe, in the complexions of lovely women everywhere, from Hollywood to Saratoga.

Here's Act One of Saratoga Trunks, starring Ida Lupino as Cleodelaine and Zachary Scott as Clint Maroon. In 1896, in a stately old mansion on Esplanade Street, an attorney is calling with important news for his client.

Come in, Miss Yohase. The ship from France has arrived. Well? Your granddaughter is in New Orleans, Madame Lillain. You will never call her my granddaughter. Never. I pick your pardon. She arrived with two servants, an egress named Angelique.