Anna Christie

Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy in Anacrysti. Lux presents Hollywood. We want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, how much we appreciate your loyalty to our product, Lux, toilet, soap and Lux Place.

Your daily use of the fine product, your suggestion that your friends also use them, makes it possible for us to bring you the Lux Radio Theater. Our place tonight is Eugene and Neil's great romance drama, Anacrysti.

Our star, Professor Tacey, John Crawford, George Marion, Senior and Marjorie Rambo. And we will hear as special guests, Mr. Albert Mc Hollywood celebrated citizen star-ponder epic Ladies and gentlemen, it's your settle Reading from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen Once upon a time, a childhood of girl came to Columbia, Missouri and enrolled in Stevens College

She'd just come from a convent school where she had paid for her board by helping clean 14 rooms by cooking, washing dishes, and taking care of 25 children She arrived at Stevens College practically penniless Yet today, that college remember tellers pride.

On the dining room wall hangs her portrait, and beneath it is the inscription, Joan Crawford used to wait on tables in this room. No less spectacular had been the rise of spent at places. From the days when he and Pat O'Brien, both of them jobless, lived together in a single room in a New York boarding house.

Their combined assets consisted of one full-red suit, which they both shared, and a gimler's Irish landlady who advanced from $15 so they could eat. There was no portrait and no inscription in that room today.

Nor is there any in the room of a kinetic senatorium where the turning point occurred in the life of Eugene O'Neill, author of tonight's play. It is why he lay in that hospital, reflecting on his past life as a sailor, gold prospector, newspaper man, and with an occasional job in the theatre, that Mr. O'Neill determined to start life all over again, this time at the playwright.