Great Expectations

Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux Flakes. Bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Robert Cummings, Anne Blythe, Howard De Silva, and Lee J. Cobb in Great Expectations. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, the Lux Radio Theatre inaugurates its 14th year on the air. And I'd like to thank you of the listening audience, as well as the Motion Picture Studios and stars for making our past 13 years so happy and successful.

And in celebration, we bring you tonight one of the greatest English classics ever filmed. Jay Arthur ranks screen epic, great expectations. Start in our cast are four of Hollywood's favorite players, Robert Cummings and Blive, Howard De Silva and Lee J. Cobb.

Any anniversary is a time for taking stock of the past, and we note with particular pride the ever-growing popularity of Luxe Flakes. During the lifetime of this theatre and for years before, they've entered more and more American homes to become a household word for cleanliness, discrimination, and good taste.

And I'm sure that you, who put your faith in Luxe Flakes, have been happily reward. On to tonight's play, David Leane's production of Great Expectations, starring Robert Cummings as Pip and Bligh as Estella, Howard the Silver as Jagger's and Lee J. Cobb as Maggwich.

This dark entangled narrative has its beginning in the year in 21. I was 12 years of age, living in the south of England with my sister and her husband. Late one, just the autumn afternoon, I visited the village churchyard where my mother and father are buried.

and suddenly from behind one of the tombstones. No, I'm scared. You're scared, you little devil. I'll cut your throat. He was looming over me, huge and horrible. His great wrists shackled in chains and escaped convict.