Mother Was a Freshman

Lux presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson in Mother as a Freshman. Ladies and gentlemen, you're a producer, Mr. William Keeley.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. 15 years ago, this week, a dental and radio entertainment was begun. It was a Lux Radio Theater. Its purpose was to bring into American homes the finest in drama played by the most important stars.

Since that day, a new generation has grown up and the Lux Radio Theater with it. Now it's a part of the American scene, an institution in millions of American homes. To celebrate this 15th anniversary, we've selected a gay romantic comedy that brings together two of this theater's top favorites, those very bright stars, Loretta Young and Van Johnson.

The play is Mother is a Freshman, that 20th century fox success you've requested so often. You know, if Mother were to go back to college today, she'd find it quite different than it was 15 years ago, but some things would make her feel right at home.

For one, that familiar cake of luck's toilet soap. Yes, even when Mother was a freshman, Lux soap was a favorite complexion care of the loveliest girls on the campus. And again tonight, as it has for fifteen years, Lux makes it possible for you to hear another hit play.

As the curtain rises, on Mother is a freshman, starring Loretta Young as Abigail, and Van Johnson as Richard. It happens sometimes to the best of us, at first memorandum from the bank informing us that our balance is not sufficient to cover our checks.