Jane Eyre

Lux presents Hollywood! Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery in Jane Eyre. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeling. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

If you've ever visited the moors of Yorkshire with their threatening crags and weird mysterious fogs, They are towering, moss-covered mansions steeped in age and legend. You'll realize why those Yorkshire Moors have been the setting for so many strange and gripping dramas.

Such dramas, for example, as tonight's immortal story, Jane Eyre. Filmed by 20th Century Fox from Charlotte Bronti's famous novel, Jane Eyre is truly a screen classic, calling for great actors to interpret it, and such are the players whom we have tonight.

Robert Montgomery co-starred with Ingrid Bergman in the title role. A biographer of the fabulous Brontë sisters, perhaps literature's most gifted family, describes them as being plainly and unfashionably dressed, with the exception of Charlotte who had a taste for delicate lace shawls and mantles.

Although how she cared for her fine fabrics without Lux flakes, the writer fails to mention. If Charlotte were alive today and doing her own housework as she did in Yorkshire, I'm sure those new tiny diamonds of luxe would prove a helpful blessing to this family of geniuses.

But back to 19th century England with Act 1 of tonight's play, starring Ingrid Burdman as Jane Eyre and Robert Montgomery as Edward Rochester. My name is Jane Eyre. I was born in 1820. Her time of harsh changes in England.

Money and position were all that mattered. Charity was a cold and disagreeable word. And religion too often merely a mask to cover bigotry and meanness. As a child I had no one, only an aunt.