Captain Horatio Hornblower

Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux Toileth's Hope, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo in Captain Horatio Hornblower. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. From time immemorial, stories of the sea have held a fascination for everyone. particularly those of the great naval battles before the days of modern warfare. Tonight we bring you Captain Horatio Hornblower, adapted from the famous tales of C.S.

Hollister, and tell you the story of a hero in the days of Britain's dominance of the seas. As our stars, we present the handsome and talented team of Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo, recreating their original roles in this Warner Brothers screen adventure, which by the way can still be seen at your favorite neighborhood theatre. And I believe there's still a

rumor going around that a sailor has a girl in every port. Well now that's not so surprising. Knowing that girls all over the world can purchase Luxe toilet soap. Yes you can sail the seven seas and find Luxe girls because women everywhere are devoted to Luxe toilet soap for their complexion care. The curtain rises on

Captain Horatio Hornblower, starring Gregory Peck in the title role, and Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara. Here, 1807, a small ship of the Royal Navy, his Majesty's ship Lydia, set forth on the secret destination. With five million French and Spanish soldiers poised on the continent under Napoleon, nothing could save England from invasion except her 300 ships. But the Lydia was sailing far from

We'd been at C now for seven witty months and it covered 10,000 miles. But only one man aboard knew our destination and what we would do when and if we got there. Captain Hombler. Our stores of food and water were all but exhausted.