The Vagabond King

Hollywood, California, Monday, August 17th. Next Radio Theater presents John Boles in the Vagabond King with Evelyn Benavol. Lux presents Hollywood, our stars John Boles in Evelyn Benavol, our producer Cecil B. DeMille, our guests Robert Riskin and Geneva Sawyer, and our director of music, Lewis Silvers.

Welcome also to the distinguished personalities in our audience. Craig Reynolds, Adrian Ames, Mrs. John Bowles, and Helen McFadden of the McFadden publications to our listeners, seen and unseen, greetings from Lux. It is fitting that this program should come to you from this city of stars, because nowhere in the world are Lux flakes better

known or more extensively used than in the leading motion picture studios here in Hollywood. While washing woolens, prints, silks, in fact for all fabrics that are washable, the studios know how newness is prolonged, how colors are protected by washing with those light, sheer but marvellously effective lux flakes, the flakes that have made cake soap rubbing a

thing of the past. And now, may I again present as our producer, a man who has given us dozens of our best known performers and 62 of our great motion pictures. He comes direct to the Lux Radio Theatre from one of the big stages at Paramount, where he is now filming The Plainsman.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille! Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play had its beginning more than a hundred years before Shakespeare was born. In those days a tragic harlequin roamed the streets of Paris, drinking in its cellars and sleeping in its garrets.

He had the conscience of a pickpocket and the soul of a poet. His name was Francois Véon. Almost five centuries later, Justin Huntley-McCarthy wrote Véon's story in a play called If I Were King. E.H. Southern starred in it.