Singapore

Luck presents Hollywood. Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Luck's Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Fred McMurray and Ava Gardner in Singapore. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Travel in the Far East introduces one to many fascinating places. none more glamorous or exotic than Singapore. I remember thinking as I glimpsed its teeny wharves and torturous alleys and sensed its age and oriental secrecy, what an ideal background it would be for a mystery.

Tonight I seem to be rewarded, as I indeed you are as well, with the first screenplay to use present-day Singapore as its locale. And our stars are straight from the cast of the Universal International Picture Singapore, Fred McMurray and Ava Gardner.

No one who has ever visited the Far East, as Mrs. Keelian I did, could possibly forget the internationally famous Raffles Hotel, across roads of the world. And if my memory serves me right, Lux soap was among the welcome, modern touches there, as it is right here in Hollywood.

In fact, my good friend, Hernando Cartwright, president of the Beverly Hills Hotel, hosts to so many famous green stars and celebrities assures me that Lux soap is part of every room's hospitable appointment, a friendly, thoughtful way of saying welcome to a guest.

From Hollywood to Singapore, we bring you now our first act, starring Fred McMurray as Matt Gordon and Ava Gardner as Linda Graham. Our theatre lights are dimmed as the curtain rises. At the airport in Singapore, there's a modest group of officers of the British Government.

Among them, an office labeled Customs Division. Welcome back to Singapore, Mr. Gordon. Hello, Inspector. Won't you sit down? All this attention, I'm overcome. So am I. I thought these old eyes were failing me when I saw your name on the passenger list?