The Wizard of Oz

Lux presents Hollywood! Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keats. Holiday greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

I trust you've all had a perfect Christmas, wonderful presents, too much dinner, and lots of merry company. But sometime during the day I am sure you've said Christmas really belongs to the children. And so before they have to leave their toys and cowboy suits, we want to tell them a story.

And you'll want to listen too, because it's the Wizard of Oz, one of those wonderful Oz books that we've all loved since they were written by Elfrangh Baum 50 years ago. The central golden mayor turned the Wizard of Oz into a screen classic, and a lovely little singer into a star.

One of the most talented stars of Hollywood, Judy Garland. Audiences have asked her to be brought back again and again to be entranced by Judy's performance and those fascinating Oz characters. The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and the delightful little people, the Munchkins.

Now it's off to the Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. This is the story of a girl named Dorothy, who lives with her aunt and uncle on a farm way out in Kansas.

Her dearest friend is her dog, Toto. But Dorothy has other friends too. The farm ends, for instance. Zeke can hunk and hickory. Hey, what's your hurry, honey? What's wrong? It's a little hickory, Toto! Don't go home. Something wrong with that dog?

Well, he looks fine to me. Well, he is Zeke, but he almost wasn't. Miss Gulch hit him just because he gets in her garden and chases her nasty old cat. Oh, it's your, honey, sure.