 Lux presents Hollywood the Lux Radio Theatre brings you Herbert Marshall Ingrid Bergman and Gail Patrick in Intermezzo a love story. Ladies and gentlemen your producer Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen tonight a new star comes to the stage of the Lux Radio Theatre and our date with her was made by a telephone call to Sweden. Miss Ingrid Bergman who is one of the Hollywood finds of the year makes her American radio debut in our drama Intermezzo because we couldn't imagine anyone else in the role she played so powerfully on the screen. Intermezzo is a love story a story both old and new old because it's a love story new because it represents a distinct improvement on a familiar theme just as the new quick Lux is an improvement on a tried and true product. Science is constantly bettering things for us and Lux Flakes keeps pace with the March of Science. Miss Bergman was discovered by David O. Selznick and brought here from Sweden to make Intermezzo. After finishing the picture she went back home that's where our telephone call comes in. We reached her at stock home and made arrangements for tonight's play when she returned to resume work at the Selznick studio but it was really you who cast Herbert Marshall in the co-starring role. We received so many letters asking when are you going to have Herbert Marshall again that we've seized this opportunity to have him play Holger Brandt and let me congratulate you on a job of perfect casting. To complete the triangle of our love story we have Gail Patrick as Holger Brandt's wife Margaret. She's a very different character from the wife in a conventional dramatic triangle but as I told you before this is a new love story even though our lazier playwrights had been insisting for years that there was no such thing as a new love story. Intermezzo of course is a musical term meaning an interlude or intermission a time to relax so I suggest that you relax now and listen as we ring up the curtain on our play Intermezzo starring Herbert Marshall as Holger Brandt Ingrid Bergman as Anita and Gail Patrick as Margaret with Ann Todd and Douglas Scott of the screencast as the children Ann Marie and Eric. In New York City's famous Carnegie Hall a violin recital nears its close. It's the second encore of the audience breathless with excitement has crowded into the aisles and as close to the stage as possible where Holger Brandt is playing for the first time his own composition Intermezzo. From his magic bow the music soars to the high dome of the hall whispers along the wall and then all too soon the concert ends. They say how much I appreciate the reception you have given us here on our last concert in New York. My accompanist Thomas Kleinberg and I leave America for our home in Sweden with the deepest gratitude for the warmth of your response to our performances here. I should like to say a few words about something that for me saddens this happy evening as I'm afraid it will you. Mr. Steenberg will you come out here please. Thomas come out. Oh my God what are you thinking of? Don't be a fool man it's time you took some of the vows. Ladies and gentlemen Mr. Steenberg is more than my accompanist he's my old friend he's my collaborator from whom I have learned much of whatever I know of music it is therefore with the deepest regret that I must announce that after many years of travel and adventure together I must henceforth go my way alone. Mr. Steenberg is abandoning me to settle down to a well-earned retirement. Will you join me in paying tribute to one of the finest musicians and more important one of the finest men it has ever been my privilege to know. Thank you. Thank you. Oh my you shouldn't have done this. Gee Thomas every word of it. But I am. I am. But thank you. Thank you. I'll meet you in the waiting room. And now if you'll permit us we must run. You see like so many of you we are family men and tonight a boat sail that will take us back to Stockholm. A boat that will take us home. Yes Thomas is your decision final you really mean to leave me and retire. Yes the times come Holger won't you miss it all the work the crowds the applause all the world as we've had it perhaps a little but there's a great difference between us Holger you're indispensable to the world and the world to you let's have a drink your flame leaps Holger at every breath of life some of us glow a while and aren't too regretful when the spark dies out and allows us to rest we'll have memories in common always Thomas memories and the same old friends back and beat over old Thomas sitting by the fire with his slippers and his pipe and my wife yes of course your wife I should be glad to see Margaret again too and the children seems years since I left them you know Thomas you're right the crowds applause they're like a drug like a habit that gets a stranglehold in your life and you can't break it except by total abstinence stay home away from it all and you'll find peace I wish I could believe it but the same conviction I say it well anyway Thomas for 20 years of comradeship in the art we both love and for your flawless friendship thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you Emma you've taken good care of everybody I see it's good to have you back sir look daddy look who's here wow how's that his name is Angus daddy he's my dog so the family's grown since I've been away how are you Angus I'm happy to meet you I'm sure it doesn't think very much of me you know Margaret there's better air to breathe in this room than anywhere else on earth I can hardly believe I've been away nothing's changed if anybody ever moved anything in here even an inch mother always moved it right back again where you like you had your own room to upset Eric Eric's building a railroad upstairs Holger not a railroad mother a rope haul for carrying Magnesite from the mines to the factories really I'd like to have a look at it well it's not finished yet sir maybe I could help no I don't think so sir I don't blame you Eric daddy I play the piano daddy I take lessons do you do you want to hear me a little later darling daddy has so much to do will you play your violin with me daddy I should say I will darling take Angus upstairs please all right but I'm coming well Margaret welcome home darling if you knew how often I thought of this moment oh are you are young lady what do you think of that you played some wrong notes what I did nothing of the kind yes you did it made me dizzy indeed you mean this terrible those are called dissonant chords darling you'll learn to play them too no I don't want to then you'll just be a very old-fashioned musician that's what I want to be good morning and Murray miss Hoffman oh I hope I haven't interrupted anything not at all daddy this is miss Hoffman she's my music teacher how do you do how do you do I've been hearing a great deal about you miss Hoffman now there's one thing I know for certain yes you've been teaching your pupil plenty of self-confidence she's been correcting me she says I play false oh and Murray I wouldn't take that criticism too hard mr brand and Murray's very talented but but she may have been mistaken well let's hope so anyway how long have you been teaching her oh a little under a year I hope it's been satisfactory I'm hardly more than a pupil myself with whom with several teachers but now that mr Stainbow has returned I'm hoping he'll take me Stainbow you couldn't find anyone better I'll see that he does take you you will oh thank you mr brand not a bit now run along and marry it must be time for your lesson yes it is come on Murray what are you thinking of oh nothing except Margaret it strikes me I'm something of a stranger here how can you say such a thing little things the children make me realize it but then it's natural that it should be that way you've been away from us so much and this last time it's been so long I know market I'm going to do what Thomas has done settle down my darling when you're ready for that you won't see it so desperately with that determined look in your eye I suppose you're right but market you're coming away with me but they're going away together again and everything will be just as it was in the beginning we'll make life rich and gay and exciting again how wonderful it was missing trains and boats losing all our belongings and never caring do you remember the first time you went away like that it was winter here when we left we crossed the Alps and suddenly it was spring you said that the blossoming locusts in Capri was what made everyone sing there remember yes it's as if you were telling me a fairy tale once upon a time but things are different now how we have a home it won't run away and we'll come back to it and appreciate it all the more but the children they can get along without you for a while it's good for children to learn to take care of themselves now really hogger and marie's only six please her dear don't think that I wouldn't love to go but you don't realize that these things are my responsibilities just as well just as concerts and practice are yours I suppose you're right or and Marie something important mommy what is it dear we are inviting miss hoffman to my birthday party oh but and Marie tell miss hoffman that she's very welcome to your birthday party miss hoffman you're very welcome to my birthday party we're going to have ice cream and cake well I I didn't really mean to miss brand and marie will be very disappointed if you don't come and so will we very well thank you that settled now we can go on with the lesson come on miss hoffman you like the ice cream and cake miss hoffman oh I'm sure I would you see hogger all these world shaking problems that keep me here I'm content to stay to make this the place you'll come back to always and that spring you spoke up that sort of thing comes only once in a lifetime let it be what it is a memory and who knows we might perhaps have another spring ladies and gentlemen we are very privileged people our hostess was told that she would invite whom she liked for her birthday and she asked for an entirely grown-up party her father and mother whom I think she felt she couldn't very well leave out her brother the rising young engineer her godfather uncle Thomas her other godfather uncle Charles Mueller my worthy business manager thank you and her new friend and teacher miss Anita hoffman whom you're happy to welcome to the family circle ladies and gentlemen I give you the health of our hostess with 70 times seven miss Ann Marie Brown I have a word with you well Charles or get Thomas's determined not to travel again I told you that so I have been very busy I've been combing the continent for a new accompanist and I believe I found one you have I want you to come to a concert with me next week he's marvelous very well the man is exactly the thing you want I heard him last listen what quiet can that be miss hoffman well I imagine so well she's good I didn't realize she's only a pupil wait till you hear the man that I I want to listen well what did you think of the recital wouldn't he make a good accompanist he won't do who'll get I tell you he won't do the solar is to oh lord well I will keep looking I'm sorry I beg your pardon why miss hoffman oh mr brand good evening and mr Miller good evening how are you this evening miss hoffman very well thank you isn't the mrs brand with you no we had social obligations I'm a fugitive from adult in the perfect well what should we do now what would you say to a glass of wine somewhere well I was just going home so was I but what about you Charles no no no no leave me out I'm ready for bed after all that highbrow music good night good night miss hoffman oh but let him go music wears him out there must be a cafe nearby here there's a funny stuff a little place down the street always crowded where they have to put out the lights to get rid of the customers oh you have been there not in a long time it's just what we want come along I adore the concert you did like it didn't you you have the look in your eyes of someone who's made a feast of music how I envy that pianist you'd like to do that wouldn't you be on that concert stage yes I'll tell you something I'd rather it had been you up there playing oh you are not serious certainly I am good Lord I'm stupid of course why don't you accompany me accompany you this is on tour take Thomas's place oh you don't mean it but I do why didn't I think with the moment I heard you play well what are you thinking what do you say no no I couldn't do it even if you meant it why couldn't you oh Mr. Steinberg would never forgive me if I gave up my studies Thomas would approve completely he knows how desperately I need an accompanist and he'd be delighted that you'll take on his place no but please try to understand don't just think it's best for me to stay and work as hard as I can for a scholarship scholarship yes in the Royal Academy there is a chance oh I didn't know but of course you should stay and continue your status that you would even consider me yes yes you're profoundly honored and all that I am really I understand we'll say no more about you know I've forgotten about places like this the haven of the rising musicians the look one sees in all these places and yet it seems scared that in a time at all since I sat here with just such boys and girls we making the world of suit ourselves as they're doing now I would like to have known you then would you probably not I was poor and awkward much too earnest and wealth too hard all in all not a very fetching fellow I don't believe you everyone here each of these boys and girls expect to set the world on fire yes and perhaps one or two may do it perhaps it'll be you haha oh please don't laugh at what I'm going to say why should I well since I first began to care about music oh it does seem so strange tell me what I had only one idea for years I saved every penny I could to be able to buy some kind of a seat in the concert hall whenever you play it's nice of you to tell me that nice of me think think of my being able to tell it to you oh that's what I can't get over here I am talking to you as if I as if you were an old friend I am a friend you but just a little while ago I looked at you from such a distance and now oh you don't know how fantastic it seems to me to be here at this moment well wait no no no don't drink that just ordinary wine waiter a bottle of your best vintage champagne very good champagne for that state of mind described as being in awe of someone there's no quicker corrective than good champagne two glasses and in 20 minutes strangers have shared a rich and happy past there comes a night each year when one senses that winter is suddenly over yes that spring has come oh I look forward to through a dreary months look down there at the river the ice there's the winter all broken rushing out to sea a wonderful final journey don't you feel when spring comes that the world is yours for the asking that there's nothing that you couldn't be for tonight tonight I would dare anything oh oh perhaps it's on to the champagne you know what you remind me of tell me a viennese waltz smiling with melancholy a melody of the days when vienna was a happy city what a poet you are a twilight in the spring and music poured through the cafe doors melodies of carefree youth it was there that I saw you for the first time phantom for the viennese waltz no I'm wrong it wasn't there at all I met you it was in Budapest on a summer night they were playing the rustle of spring that was you what are you thinking of I'm listening there's something coming I don't know what spring perhaps spring yes perhaps oh it's getting cold now it's coming the spring storm hi I must go home good night Anita in just a moment mr. demille brings you act two of intermezzo with her at marshal ingrid bergman and gale patrick have you ever thought of the various words that express speed if you'll take a look at 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stenborg's home anita sits at the piano all the hopelessness of her love is expressed in the only way she knows through music stenborg comes quietly into the room and stands behind her a worried frown on his face you were going at it as if it were the climax of a tremendous symphony i wasn't conscious of it mr stenborg i'm thinking of going away are you really for long i am i've been invited to visit relatives in danmark i can stay as long as i want i see they won't divert you too much you'll be able to study if i like don't talk as if that weren't important you've applied for that scholarship you know yes of course i'll try to study here by myself little and mary will have to find someone else the teacher yes and so you're running away from it all from him i thought you must have known yes well perhaps it's best that way life sometimes moves in strange ways to give us experience and often this experience is gained only through our greatest mistakes i thought i was going straight to my goal thinking of nothing but my work and now i can't explain it to you and don't try nothing is altogether dependable not the weather destiny nor ourselves will this be our last lesson yes if you'll excuse me i i think i ought to go and see mrs brandt certainly do that anita you're waiting for me to say something very wise and helpful but i'll say to you only what i say to myself when things seem too difficult courage my friend anita here i thought you were never coming you see you support me by always being on time there was someone i had to see hold on that sounds very serious someone i had to see anything wrong anita oh nothing may i have a glass of wine something has gone wrong tell me please now you're frightening me oh but i'm frightened you must realize how i feel it can't go on like this oh it simply can't go on don't you see that why you upset yourself now all along i've been miserable hating this kind of thing always meeting you like this in out of the way places little dark corners sneaking about in fear of being seen it's not the way i'd like it to be how else could we go on seeing each other oh i'm ashamed and i hate being ashamed we've had so many hours of happiness gay friendly hours they've been beautiful nothing to be ashamed of oh holder look in the mirror there on the wall how do we look to you don't be so dramatic oh but you don't like it anymore than i do we look what we feel too guilty people is it a crime for me to love you anita why why did it have to be the way it is if only we hadn't met do you really wish we hadn't yes now i do i haven't any right to be happy the way i am happy when i am with you i'm neat no no i can't listen you'll go on justifying us both i know and i'm fighting to be sensible sensible that's a word seldom used in love love isn't sensible oh holger there are some things i can't bring myself to say i know i know i have a home i have children i'm a respected responsible man what has i said here looking at you i know only one thing i do too we must end it we've got to stop seeing each other can we we must we can't go on lying to ourselves and to people who trust us it's impossible unfair but just say goodbye and stop seeing each other that's very simple isn't it we've got to find a strength for it you're right goodbye anita oh no not here no let's get out let's walk anita the days are so long now aren't they yes you know that there used to be a shop near here i always stopped to look in all kinds of funny lost things in the window oh here it is what a strange collection of things i need a look look at that curious clock holger i'm going i'm going now quickly as if it didn't matter oh don't kiss me don't say anything don't turn around now goodbye holger goodbye anita randy or coffee no thank you are things going along well yes quite well i had a rather difficult time with ann marie today she's very upset about miss hoffman leaving leaving didn't you know she was here today to tell us she's going to denmark she won't be back for a long time i see have you found an accompanist yet no no it's all uh not definite yet but you're leaving on another tour soon yes i should be leaving soon will you be away long i don't know i i can't say holger i want to go along this time to go along yes yes i can arrange everything here i want to be with you on the tour as you suggested before we will go back have some of those lovely irresponsible days be together in strange places as we used to be i still want something of life i don't want to be left behind does that sound vain and frivolous coming from me holger can't we do it wouldn't you like it i see you're answering me you might just as well be seeing it i know what it is margaret i must talk to you no never mind forget what i said margaret we must talk now listen to me hello dad hello mother come in eric did you ask him for me mother no i forgot eric wants to go to see a picture this evening holger i've done all my lessons is it all right dad it's a good movie certainly could you let me have some money yeah thanks margaret i'm sorry more than i can tell you mother something's wrong with dad yes what is it mother you were talking when i came in what's the matter eric go upstairs darling there's nothing we can do nothing elita oh wait you can't you mustn't go oh how could you do this how could you can't face it i can't face being without you would we promise each other is it as easy as that can you just get on a train and ride away from life how pleased what you'd leave would haunt you haunt us both the rest of our days all aboard oh you are not being fair it's no easier for me this very moment my fate has been decided a life with you or a life alone you are not alone holger it's i who am alone we're both alone i need her i've broken with my past with everything i have no home any longer holger you couldn't oh what did you say to her to your wife she couldn't have born the lies anymore than i could i know her and anyway she always she already knew the truth she told me first barely oh how could you hurt her like that and what will happen now albert hall london may the third holger brant valenist accompanist annita hoffman contra-drull in vienna holger brant accompanist froylein annita hoffman one now what do you think four on course i think the audience told the truth you play better than i have ever heard you play before i wonder why and you you surpassed yourself too oh well that's no mystery oh holger i love you that was what they heard tonight when i played i i hope it's true i've helped you a little but it's not only that only what oh what am i your shadow i don't exist without you you're not a shadow my dearest don't often answer but it's enough yes let me be with you like this that's all i ask and will that be enough always yes always our last concert we can rest a while now oh it's been the greatest happiness i've ever known the greatest i'll ever know i'm sure how can you be sure of that such happiness couldn't come more than once in one's life i know it couldn't could it holger unneeded let's not speculate on happiness here we are and work is over for a while i was forgetting we must go home now home without a holiday i thought a few weeks on the viviera away from the crowds the noise oh and me to the place i know on a hill overlooking the sea no no no we we can't here is listen to me you asked only to be with me to be near me well that's all i asked too to know that i can see you that i can call your name and you'll be near that's all okay oh oh mr demille brings you act three of intermezzo with ingrid bergman herbert marshal and gale patrick in just a moment during this brief intermission we bring you a little scene that might happen anywhere later this evening so sleepy let's go to okay as soon as i untangle myself in this chair oops there goes another run gosh i'm sick of them well i don't wonder you get them the way you treat your stockings well what do you mean it 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they give under strain instead of breaking into runs easily now why don't you do this ask your grocer for the big box of new quick locks tomorrow he has it now in the same familiar box at no extra cost to you use it for your stockings and other nice things to keep them new looking longer it's so fast so thrifty so wonderfully safe for all your washables we pause now for a station identification this is the columbia broadcasting system we continue with act three of intermezzo in a tiny town on the shore of the blue Mediterranean a rustic inn overlooks the sea in this place of enchantment holger and anita are happier than they've ever been in all their lives but now a letter comes for anita from far off sweden a letter from thomas stenborg my dear anita the royal academy of music has awarded you the jenny lin scholarship for 1939 for this is a great achievement i hope you will not let anything interfere with the fulfillment of the bright future now within your age faithful atama stenborg holger all the excitement this look what is it if it's an invitation don't think i'll let you out of my sight now for a single moment oh well aren't you going to tell me no no not now no no anyway it's it's nothing to get excited about oh i'm starving dinner's ready isn't it anita is the letter important of course if you'd rather be mysterious oh i don't want to make you jealous oh it's from thomas from thomas oh and filled with the recriminations i suppose what did he have to say he was just writing to me yes not about the weather no oh holger it's it's only that i was awarded the scholarship only were you going to hide it from me why i don't i don't want the scholarship now holger i'm not taking it i see and what does thomas advise oh please let's forget it oh it's so pleasant out here what's that fragrance mimosa anita yes where's the letter let me read it no no no holger let's pretend it never came look anita don't there it's all gone that's how i feel about the letter about any word or a thought that will come between us mr brant mr brant yeah there's a gentleman here to see you mr well where who who is it it's i holger thomas where did you come from i took the chance of finding you i uh good to see you thomas you must stay of course i'll see you're made comfortable it'll be very pleasant for overnight i'm sure overnight you can't run off like that tomorrow i plan to have a picnic on the mountain you must join us thomas holger you're enjoying it here yes it's perfect cut off from the world the kind of life i never thought i'd have what news of my family thomas that's what i've come about they're all well oh quite well i have a message for you from an marie yes she'd like you to bring her a camera when you come home i guess this i will holger i i have some papers with me papers divorce papers oh yes yes yes of course i asked marget to let me bring them i thought i might prevail on you to sign them certainly i'll sign them later why not do it now holger and get it over with thomas you're my best friend you don't have to use welded gloves with me speak your mind you think i've acted pretty badly don't you it's easy to criticize i don't pretend i can account for someone else's feelings won't you sign these now do you think it's as easy as all that thomas to cut off the best part of your life tear out the last roots i thought you'd done that long ago i've been mr stain bar hello anita oh but this is wonderful when did you get here have you seen holger yes how well you look how are you my dear happy oh but of course i'm divinely happy this country is very beautiful yes you must come with us tomorrow and see the sunrise holger and i and yes perhaps we'll bring marianne maria yes she she's a little girl here thin keeper's daughter holger has grown very fond of her you see he um he misses and marie did you think he wouldn't i've tried not to think of it at all i've tried to pretend there wasn't a past and no future it seems a very long time since i heard holger play oh by the way let me congratulate you on your scholarship you must be very happy about it i don't want it it means nothing to me now but it meant everything to you once anita my dear you have great talent it saddens me to think it will be wasted if i only can be with holger nothing else matters and holger does he feel the same way do you think he's unhappy with me do you think he can't forget the past a man's past is never past his roots are twine deep in the things that have made him what he is what he'll love is i i know we can be happy do you i wonder if anyone has ever built happiness on the unhappiness of others oh oh everything is wrong my whole life everything what shall i do that's not for me to say you must make your own decision whatever it may be i know it will be the right decision in a moment holger mr steenbough you are going on the picnic yes i thought perhaps i'd better stay another day you must help me of course if i can there's a train leaving here in an hour my dear when you and holger come back i shall be gone you're sure it's best that way you're not doing it only because of what i said we both know where holger belongs i'm well say i've been an intermixer in his life or you gave me a good word once courage i'm trying to remember it i'm trying i need to come along aren't you ready yet oh i'm not coming not coming why not i didn't sleep i think i have a cold coming on i'll wait for you outside dear shall we postpone it oh no no don't do that you go without me please sure you're all right oh quite sure oh really go along well i'll miss you mm-hmm oh boy dear goodbye holger you don't like my friends holger wait what is it done oh your hat oh you you'll never wear that one properly fix it now am i perfect yes goodbye holger goodbye are you satisfied now holger you knew it didn't you why didn't you tell me it was she who decided she alone gone you're not going after her are you no perhaps she was right what she said she was only an intermezzo in my life it's over then you'll come home home you think i could crawl back to market now just because i'm alone with nothing nobody i haven't a home a wife children i haven't any right to them after all the unhappiness i've caused that shall be my punishment thomas my parents you have been away so long my friend and mary keeps asking for you i have said to her when spring comes he will surely return holger come home your friend thomas how are you thomas i knew you i knew it come along i'll get a cab you must stay with me of course i'll and thomas wait please don't be offended you see i haven't come home to stay i just wanted to see a marie i brought the camera she wanted and put these thomas living alone if you wish it holger thank you goodbye thomas dad for yes yes there's a school on the box home road take me there please right over there driver just wait yes i'm and marie and marie wait there i'll be right over don't cross the street darling and marie be careful look out for the car look out and marie let me tell please i told the children they were across the street i told them oh marie send a doctor to my house i'm her father holger brand hurry tell me how is she what does the doctor say he doesn't know she's very badly hurt she she tried to run to me i called but margit i had no right to come here but may i stay here for a while just to just till we know yes there are there are so many things i must do and marie and marie oh god please eric look at me i've been away so long you let mother and us and i want you to know that i'll never forgive you even if everybody else does eric you don't know what it's been like here all this time you haven't seen mother crying every night and hiding it well now we've learned to do without you why did you come back at all we don't need you anymore eric and listen to me please you know when we are young we expect the people we love to behave like gods and most of all our fathers i suppose then as we grow older we learn that none of us are gods but all human tragically human and that we all of us make mistakes right up to the very end of our lives you'll learn that one day and when you do you also know what it is to forgive perhaps even your father you see eric it's i who need you now oh dad dad well son there my boy mr brand doctor is she no doctor tell me your little girl would recover say it again please she'll be well again after a long rest thank you thank you you'd better rest too the nurses will do everything i'll be back for you you'll live in it you have your sister again goodbye eric goodbye my son holga holga wait yes don't go please margaret and mary is asking for you she wants you to stay and so do i you after all the pain i've caused you life renews itself things die and are born again in the spring our love can live again if we want it too will you let me try will you welcome home holger welcome home my darling margaret home home the curtain falls on intermezzo starring herbert marshal ingrid bergman and gale patrick while our stars are preparing to take their well-deserved curtain calls i'd like to ask every woman in our audience to look at her hands while you do this just suppose that your left hand look rough and red while your right hand remains smooth and white that would be simply awful mr ruick oh no woman would like that you're quite right sally and yet hundreds of women went around for weeks with just such a strange contrast between their two hands behind this remarkable fact there's a story the scene of the story lies in a well-known scientific laboratory where these hundreds of women came every day for weeks in order to make what it's safe to call the most convincing test ever made of dishwashing soaps here's what happened in the laboratory each woman placed one hand in a dishpan full of luck suds and her other hand in a pan full of suds from another soap they all did this for 20 minutes three times a day now that's certainly an absolutely fair test isn't it one hand in each suds exactly the same amount of time altogether five leading soaps including luxe were tested and now for the results experts examined the hands at the end of the test and said that there was no doubt about which soap was mildest the verdict went to luxe in case after case the luxe hand looks smooth soft lovely while the other hand looked rough red unattractive well i'd expect the luxe hand to look smooth and soft mr ruick because i've washed dishes with new quick luxe and i know how marvelous it is to your hands yes and every woman can prove this for herself if she'll just buy a box of new quick luxe and use it for her dishwashing no woman wants rough red hands the kind that embarrass her with her friends make her seem unromantic to a man well you needn't have hands like this use new quick luxe for dishes buy the thrifty big box tomorrow your grocer has new quick luxe now in the same familiar package at no extra cost to you you'll like it it's so fast so thrifty and so very kind to hands now here's mr demille with our stars tonight is our stars return for a curtain call we welcome two old friends herbert marshal and gail patrick and one new friend in grid bergman i'm really an old friend of the luxe radio theater too mr demille when i was here to make into mezzo i was a very faithful member of your audience on monday nights we'll expect to see you on this side of the photo lines frequently now that you're back in hollywood i wish we had a key to the city to give you miss bergman but we're all out of them at the moment how do you like our town well everyone has been so nice to me especially you and miss patrick and mr demille in the luxe radio theater this week i feel at home already you seemed right at home with a microphone too well i i was at the radio in sweden a few times but it was different there doesn't the microphone look the same in any language no i i mean you rehearse your place longer it's more like making a picture cb's a hard task master but he's one of the few men i know who make people enjoy work i've always suspected he enjoyed it himself before the program he was telling me about next week's play with a very happy gleam in his eye what is the place cb next monday nightbot we have a four star bill the play is the young in heart and our stars will be donna michie ida lupino may robson and helen wood the young in heart is the story of a grand old lady who saved a whole family from failure and unhappiness of course may robson is the grand old lady and the romantic side of our play is in the hands of donna michie ida lupino and helen wood who next monday night bring us the young in heart well everyone want to reserve seat for that i'll put my order in right now mr demille and by the way don't you think we should introduce miss bergman to our good old american game of baseball i think it's our duty game we think our hollywood team is going to be wonderful this year miss bergman in a week or two spring practice will be starting or i'd like to see these two are stockholders in the team miss bergman and i warn you they're enthusiasts miss contagious cb are you still burning the midnight oil over that new picture of your northwest mounted police and i cast a very important part just today but we've looked everywhere for the right personality to play the part of lupet the little half breed girl and i decided today on paulette goddard i think gary cooper madeline carol and paulette goddard give northwest mounted police a pretty good start yes indeed we'll be looking forward with cb good night good night good night your intermezzo deserves an arm for our sponsors the makers of lux flakes joined me in inviting you to be with us again next monday night from the lux radio theater presents danamichi ida lupino may robson and helen wood in the young in heart this is sassel b demille saying good night to you from hollywood heard in tonight's play where vernon steel as tomas stenberg douglas scott as erik brant and todd as anmer b lew merrill as charles merler kenneth loughton as doctor claire blandick as emma and charles straight berry steel and ralph sedan ingrid bergman is appearing through the courtesy of david o selznick and is currently being seen in intermezzo herbert marshal has just finished the rko picture bill of divorcement gail patrick is now working in the rko picture my favorite wife the screenplay of intermezzo was written by george o'neill from an original story by gasta stevens and gustav mollender our music was directed by louis silvers and your announcer has been melville ruick this is the columbia broadcasting system