The Yearling

Lux presents Hollywood. Leiber Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude German Jr. in The Yearling. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

Games from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When a motion picture is nearly eight years in the making, one naturally looks forward to something rather special. both in story and production. And the yearling lives up fully to these expectations as one of the most widely acclaimed pictures of the year, still being enjoyed by theater goers all over the country.

In bringing it to the screen, Metro Golden Mayor cast it to perfection with tonight's Lux Radio Theater stars, Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, and Claude Jarman Jr. The yearling is a warm and deeply moving story of simple pioneer people in the Florida scrub country, people whose ways of change little through succeeding generations, and who today are still without the luxuries we take so

much for granted. Luxuries like Lux Toilet Soap, for instance, which so many lovely women in America find indispensable. In the healing country, families still prepare their own crude soap cakes from palmetto roots, striking contrast to the outside world, where one can step into the store and for a few cents by a pure white cake of luxe. A contrast, I need hardly say, that we should all be very

thankful for. And now the yearling, starring Gregory Peck as Penny Baxter, Jane Wyman as Ma and Claude Jarman Jr. as Jodi. Our curtain rises on Act 1. I come here to the scrub country after fighting in the war with the Yankees, for this we're a place to live in Deep in the woods and wild