 Lux presents Hollywood the Lux radio theater brings you Loretta young George Brent and Mary Astor in the great by Ladies and gentlemen your producer mr. Cecil B. DeMille Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen Great stars are born not made but like the mechanic and the carpenter. They too must learn their trade Loretta young played her first part when she was four years old George Brent started to learn about acting at 18 Mary Astor began her picture career at the mature age of 14 and a few days ago while our play was in rehearsal Miss Astor won the Academy Award for the finest performance by a supporting actress during the past year That winning performance on the screen was in the same part. She plays tonight on the air. I Like to work with people who have records like that Like to produce radio plays and make pictures with them Just give a trio of stars like these three a play like the great lie And it's a joy to watch the finished production take form and assume reality Tonight's drama is adapted from the Warner Brothers picture a story that cuts to the heart of a very human situation Two women in love with the same man Disaster hangs over the head of one woman the other holds the strings That can bring it down upon our rival with a crash It's the eternal triangle, but a brand new design One that brought picture audiences trooping to the theaters to see the great lie You know there's something more to making pictures than the artistic side There's also the all-important business side And I think one of the finest compliments ever paid to Lux Flakes Is that it plays the same role for leading Hollywood studios as it does for you in your home I was one of Lux's best customers when we were filming reap the wild wind Which involved hundreds of picturesque old Southern costumes any wardrobe man can tell you how much money our product Saves him annually in prolonging the life and color values of washable costumes Especially when the picture is in technicolor And in these exciting days a housewife must be a combination purchasing agent cost accountant and office manager So it's not surprising that these domestic executives reach the same conclusion as our studio executives In two well-chosen words Lux Flakes And one word curtain begins our play. Here's the first act of the great lie Starring Loretta young as Maggie George Brent as Pete and Mary Aster as Sandra Oh That's Mr. Pete up there flying down from the sky like an angel in a low Oh, I show him out. He ain't no angel and he ain't coming this house no more that Mr. Pete devil's on his honeymoon Out of the blue Maryland sky an airplane drops to the pasture land beside a rambling old colonial master mansion a Man volts quickly from the cockpit and strides across the field toward the house He swings over the garden fence and stands looking up Go to window on the second floor That sound belongs in the data is gone. Hello Violet Miss Maggie in a room Mr. Pete if you take my advice you get right back in that airplane and fly away like a bird right back where you come Don't tell her. I'm here. Will you? She ain't wanting to see you no more. We done read the newspapers about you running off and getting married now Violet You know you can't read. Well, Miss Maggie can Maggie I'm coming up. Your name ain't violinist repeat you stay right down here where you belong Down there. Yes, ma'am. Is he drinking? Well, what do you care if he's drinking if he ain't well tell him I'm busy. I've got a cold if you take your medicine. Yes, not much better. I don't want to see him anyway Well, that's what I told him but I'll tell him again now you go down and be nice and polite and tell him I've got a cold and that I'm busy and that I Why can't see him can't I buy it? No, Miss Maggie you sure can't why not Maggie? Mr. Pete you'll get yourself downstairs. Don't let him in here. Miss Maggie. It's all right Leave us alone. Yeah, but it ain't good Well, what's the matter with you? What's the matter with me? Oh, you've got a cold. Yes. What are you taking for it? That are your business. Well, how'd you get it? I got wet Mm-hmm. I always said you didn't have sense enough to come in out of the rain if I had any sense if I'd had it He said I wouldn't be in your life. No, you wouldn't Just like this cold Sneezer to it you'd be gone your nose is pink your eyes are red and violets are blue and sugar is sweet now Wish you'd go What are you doing down here anyway? I want to talk to you. You want to talk to me? You act as if nothing had happened. Yeah, I've forgotten you're married. Have you know? Well, I'm sure Sandra hasn't It was very sudden the whole thing. Yeah, so the paper said Peter that Alan Marys famous concert pianist Couple fly from New York to South Carolina. Well, you must have passed right over the house here Pete Why did you drop the adult? Well Maggie? Yeah, that's what I want to talk about. I think I want to hear about it Now please All right They're anything else Well, among other things. I am I'm thinking about going back into aviation. It's a lot doing now I must very defense, you know and all that sort of thing whose idea is this yours. Don't you remember the day after new years? There was snow and we skated and I proposed and I refuse Oh Pete let's not go into this thing all over again I'm not whining, but it's been like this for four years on and off and off and on and Well, there was only one thing I ever asked you one thing I begged you to do to be a sober solid citizen. Well sober anyway But I guess the prospect was too dull for you Well, it's all over now and I feel just the way I did that they took the bands off my teeth Had those blasted things for four years, too. Yeah, I know I'll be honest with you Is this marriage of yours going to help if I thought it would I'd be completely for it? Well, you know Sandra Yes, I do like her a hater. Oh not because she's married to you Pete, but You know Well, I won't talk about it. The fact remains that whatever she was or is she's your wife and I can't discuss Well, Maggie, let me tell you my life was right. You shouldn't have come here, and I shouldn't have seen Every time I do I feel like your little gray-haired old mother with the roses over the door the lamp at the window Well, the lamp is out. That's not true. Anyway, I'm tired of being your your haven Your wife know you came down here. No Don't you think it would have been nicer if you'd have told her? Yeah. Yes, but she was asleep Besides I wanted some fresh air and I wanted to talk to you about something Aviation that was only part of it Maggie listen up for all we all make mistakes Have you come down here behind her back at the first week to tell me you've blunted Maggie Excuse me, but it's time for your medicine miss Maggie that violet, please mr. Pete ain't it time you gone Your lady wife must be waiting for you by now. I'm sure your intentions are of the best But this is a very personal matter. They ain't nothing personal clean miss Maggie. They ain't personal with me Then she's that big. I don't do care of a violet Peach you better go. Maybe I'd better buy the buy I'm sorry miss Maggie. I'm sorry for him, and I'm sorry for you That's her latest recording please like a man look do you think I could go in and see her certainly not she's listening She doesn't want to be disturbed. Yes, but I'm her husband. I'm her manager. No, all right. All right That's what I get for marrying a genius. I'm go back is a genius Josh that record's horrible We'll have to do it over again that second side is the worst thing I've ever listened to hello darling Oh, hello, it sounded wonderful. Don't argue Josh now run along. Do I get a kiss darling or don't I? Sander I've got to speak to you. I went about the concert Tuesday. Are you going to do it? Of course I am now get out good. I'm called Hamilton fill it up. Hello Pete You said that where were you all day? You didn't even call. Oh, I went out to say my good lawyer Jack and then I I flew down to Maryland Maryland Whatever for fresh air Did you get it what the air? Oh Pete you've got to be patient with me. I've been a bachelor so long You know one of the most attractive things about you to me has always been that you understood women Now you're going to try to understand me aren't you? Look Sandra, I wonder if you could ease up on this hectic life of yours You know come away someplace quiet Some golf and some walks and some fresh air me This is a side of you I've never seen by the way I haven't told you we'll have to do it again. What get married. Are you kidding? No, I'll have to propose and you'll have to say yes, and then we can be married again That's what my lawyer wanted to see me about today, but I don't see what was wrong Well, it seems your divorce from mr. Stokes won't be final until next Tuesday. Oh, that's ridiculous It was final when I married you I'm afraid you're wrong but the creek can't be entered until next Tuesday You had your dates make dates bore me. Oh Then we're not actually married Did you tell someone in Maryland all this She must have been very amused and if there's one thing I adore is being laughed at and by a woman of course I haven't told anyone Well, are you going to propose to me again? Well, I think we should sit down and talk this thing out and see where we're going Then we can be married again next Tuesday. I'll be at paying in Philadelphia Tuesday put it off Pete Is there a doubt in your mind that we could make a go of this? Well, I'm asking you to marry me again You were much more amusing the first time I'm sober now Well, suppose you go out and get yourself into another mood. All right. Good night, Sandra Pete When are you coming back next Tuesday? I'll be in Philadelphia. Look Sandra, that's the day We're going to be married. I've already told you. I won't be here and don't go to Philadelphia darling Please try to understand marriage or no marriage. I'm doing a concert in Philadelphia Where's Pete Sandra in New York? Oh, did you come to see him? I came to see you both I thought he'd be here naturally. How did you know I was playing here? I called your apartment in New York What Pete there? No Cigarette and no thanks Don't catch cold I'm just over one Pete left the window open the other morning while I was still in bed And I caught cold in my shoulder. I'm sure he did it on purpose One thing there's never a dull moment with Pete. Tell me did you find him stubborn? When well, you were engaged to him twice weren't you? Yes, you're looking very well under the circumstances What circumstances you said you had a cold. Oh, yes, but I said I was over it the cold Definitely good for you now. What do you want me to tell Pete? Well, it's an idea I've had for him for a long time Well, if you want to write it I promise not to open the letter if you'll mark it personal from Maggie I Went to Washington to see my uncle Ted after Pete told me he was going to offer himself to the government Whatever for income tax Aviation didn't he tell you his plan not about flying for the government. No, I'm going to keep Pete on the ground Pete's an expert of maps and navigation and that coupled with his flying makes him just the kind of man the government's going Uncle Ted said all he'd have to do would be to apply for a job Well, it's very kind of you Maggie, but I like Pete where he is and as he is Well, it's your husband. Yes Now suppose you go It was just a thought oh and a very sweet one if I didn't think you meant so well, I'd feel like slapping your face On that one point Sandra we deeply understand each other Guess I can go home now. Yes, don't miss your little train Maggie. Good night. Have a nerve Pete now hold your I will not this is not a roadhouse that you can drop in and out of whenever you happen to be passing I don't want you here. Go back to your wife. Don't be a fool and don't touch now Let's not have a brawl at least you might have the good manners to listen to what I have to say Even a prisoner has a chance to speak before he's sentenced. Oh, you sound like a book and a very cheap one I did love you more than anything else in the world and it does hurt now What could you possibly say that would alter that you suppose I came down here if I didn't have something to say Oh, what about your wife Sandra? Well, Sandra was not properly divorced from our predecessor mr. Stokes when I was thought that we were properly married and the necessity for a second and So the marriage ceremony was explained to me by my lawyer jock Thompson last Wednesday when I came down here to see you You didn't tell me that well I wanted to tell you but I had a clear duty ahead of me I went back to New York and explained the situation to Sandra I asked her to marry me when a divorce papers the final that was yesterday Tuesday But she preferred to go to Philadelphia and perform on a piano So I waited in New York until midnight and then by every stroke of my conscience. I was free And I'm free right now Maggie. You're not gonna turn me down again. Are you? Darling do I look crazy? Yes, there must be something very special going on around here. Yes a wedding. Oh today Friends of yours And naturally I'm glad the suspense is over. They've been messing about at getting married ever since I can remember Was it a nice wedding? Oh the usual thing. Do you I do kiss the bride hasn't came. That's a good idea What kiss the bride? I Can hear your heart beating. Oh, don't be silly. That's my watch Well, it's getting late. I really should be on my way. Oh dear. So should I I'm On my honeymoon, you know, so you are having a lovely time lovely so far Darling we have been such food Think of all the time we've longed all those precious hours. We could have been together We just thrown those hours away. Yeah, four years of them Don't let think of them now Hold me darling Make me forget there was every moment when I wasn't close They're dragged you down by the letter just come special delivery. Let me see. Oh That's from Washington Washington, but they won't oh, it's probably something about You got some bad news miss Mary. No, not exactly, but Mr. Pete has to go to Washington at one and you just married five days. Why just let that little blow away in the wind You think I could get away with it. I gave in here Pete about it. Don't you say anything? What's going on up here anyway? Come on. Oh that letter for me. No, no, it's for me. It's from Uncle Ted Oh, how is he? All right, I guess doesn't you say well, I haven't read it all yet. Come on Pete Let's go for that right now. Wait a minute. What's the matter with you? Nothing. Oh, yes, there is anything in that letter No, let me see it. No Pete. Oh, come on. I'll give it to me. I'll take it away All right. Come on. Come on. All right. I've had to tell you anyway It's from Washington. They want to leave right away. Really? Let's see it Well, Uncle Ted says if Peter is really serious I advise that he lose no time in coming here and then he goes on to say that Aunt Ada is in New York now and that Pete I have a wonderful idea. You fly to Washington. I'll go on to New York and stay with Aunt Ada You see your man in Washington and then come on up to New York and we'll have a spree. What do you say? Well, that's great But you were going to lie to me weren't you? Yes, you were going to hold out on me. Oh darling, I know you've got to go, but I hate it now No, we made a bargain didn't we? I know I know we did but I'm going to miss you so darling. Oh Maggie you smell of hay and horses and sunshine Gee what lovely kids you're going to have Hello operator. This is Mrs. Van Allen speaking if that long-distance call comes through for me. I'm in the palm lounge. Hello Maggie Hello Sandra Yes operator. I'll be here for some time. Thank you. I didn't know you were in New York Maggie. I want to congratulate you Thanks. Where's Pete? In Washington. Oh, so you did get him into the air. Yes, I did Maggie I'm giving you fair warning. I'm going to get Pete back Pete's married to me now Sandra. Yes, and there wasn't any flaw in that ceremony was there You'd see to that wouldn't you look do we have to go on with this? I've canceled my tour Maggie really yes You see I'm going to have a baby He yes Oh, but you wouldn't you couldn't you're wrong Maggie I can and I will yes, what is it? It's your long-distance man. Oh, thank you Hello, darling. I'm talking to you from your uncle Ted's house. Hello darling. Hold on. Will you all go upstairs? Immediately Where are you going? I don't know. They haven't told me yet. Oh well For how long dear darling? I don't even know that a couple of months at least. Oh Pete. Well, it's awfully quick notice. I know Well, but will you be flying of course? That's what I'm here for. Oh, yes I Well darling, then I won't see you before you leave. Well, I'll write you as soon as I can Goodbye, darling tell him I'm with you. I said goodbye Goodbye dear Take good care of yourself. You told oh, yes. Yes, of course dear. Goodbye Pete going away Yes, too bad. You're going to lose him Maggie. I'm going to get him back Time will take care of that. I told you I'm going to have a child You're lying. Am I? Time will take care of that Mr. DeMille presents act two of the great lies starring Loretta Young, George Brent and Mary Aster in just a moment Now if Sally and I may take a few liberties with an old saying Of all said words, there's one that's shocking to girls today a run in my stocking Yes, stocking runs are real tragedies today with a couple of bold bad villains to blame for many of them harsh alkaline soaps Cake soap rubbing These are two villains that are to blame for many costly heart-breaking stocking runs two villains that rob stockings of their elasticity That weaken the threads so they break easily into runs, but there's two villains that haven't a chance to ruin your stockings If you stick to new quick luck, Luxe is very gentle It guards that vital quality of elasticity because it contains no harmful alkali to injure delicate stocking threads And of course with Luxe, there's no cake soap rubbing to weaken them either Nightly luck thing takes away soil and perspiration quickly thoroughly and safely so you get better wear from your precious stocking Over 90% of the makers of stockings advise Luxe flakes makers of rayon cotton and wool stockings as well as of silk and nylon Keep those two villains harsh soap and cake soap rubbing away from your stockings save your stockings with gentle Luxe care every night It's easy and very thrifty one big box of Luxe flakes does stockings every night for months Now our producer mr. DeMille act two of the great lie Starring Loretta young as Maggie George Brent as Pete and Mary Aster as Sandra For weeks nothing has been heard of Pete until at last to an office in Washington comes a confidential message Confidential not to be released Peter Van Allen plane forced down search party leaving for interior tonight 24 hours later Maggie has still not heard the news Now in her aunt's apartment in Washington. She meets a man from the War Department Come in Maggie. This is Colonel Harrison not the Colonel Harrison. How do you do? How do you do mrs. Van Allen and they just told me so much about you sit down, won't you please Maggie? Yes, Colonel Harrison has news about Pete. Oh really? Is he coming back soon? Mrs. Van Allen. I'm afraid it's not very good news Why what do you mean? It's not all together hopeless yet But your husband and his party have been missing for 24 hours over the Brazilian jungle Missing well, you see the terrain is very difficult It takes time to get a search party and their planes back over there. None of them have been able to make a landing yet But as we know the only point they could land is 40 miles from where they last heard from the plane The country's very thick May take a little time It's not hopeless Maggie Colonel Colonel you'll let me know won't you right away? Of course, I mean even if it's bad news. You'll tell me please We'll let you know as soon as we do but you mustn't give up hope mrs. Van Allen not yet anyway, but it Doesn't look good does it I mean even right now frankly it looks very bad. Thank you Last search party returned tonight. No sign of plane or fliers search abandoned That's miss Maggie ringing. You go up Jeff. I just can't look at her face no more. I just can't I'll go Who's that gentleman up there? That gentleman from New York? That's miss Peter's lawyer. It's so hard to understand Jack. I know Maggie But you've got to think of yourself sleep and go what for I don't missing I I kept hearing him come across in that silly little plane of his I really heard in this morning Maggie of course. It was only Jefferson with his lawnmower There was no one else like Pete in the whole world remember those silly little sketches and that that crazy old whistle and But you knew him very well didn't you Jack? Oh, yes school college. I knew Jack I'll have to forgive me. I oh, yes, Jefferson. I Wanted to tell you that mr. Thompson is staying for lunch And Jefferson don't you and violet go around looking like that Mr. Pete is just gone. That's all just go Poor Jefferson He and violet love Pete very much and everyone did Maggie there must be some satisfaction in knowing Pete was doing something worthwhile I know I've thought of that But don't you see I made him do it. I was a very happy man Maggie and he wanted to go on that trip He called me from Washington the day he left He called himself the big family man You wanted children I Would have been something wouldn't it what? Something of his to live on Pete's child Yes, Miss Kovac in please I'm Mrs. Van Allen. Oh No, she isn't I've been calling on the phone since yesterday. May I wait, please? I'm afraid it won't do any good You mean she won't see me is that it who is it Bertha? Oh I'd like to speak to you Sandra. Oh, I'm sorry miss Kovac. It's all right. Come in Maggie. I Haven't been seeing anybody these last few days down Sandra were you lying when you told me you might be going to have a child Pete's child. Oh does that matter now if it's true. It does Sandro, do you remember telling me in Philadelphia that if I wish to leave Peter letter and mark the personal he'd receive it unopened? Well Here's a letter from you to Pete mark personal and it is unopened In that letter you told him you're going to have a child. Didn't you? Yes, I did Sandra be honest with yourself You only wanted that child when you thought you could get Pete back Well now Pete's dead Sandra I came here to ask you for that child. What I was married to Pete. I could give him Pete's name I could give him everything that Pete could have given him had he lived get out of here Get out. Oh I know you hate me. Why shouldn't we both love the same man? So you do believe I loved him. Oh, yes, I Believe that was the one decent thing about you Sandra You're feeling for Pete. I can't think of him as gone He loved life so much He left us two things in this world. I have his money and you might have his child You're extravagant your woman the world a public figure your piano and your success They won't go on forever and after all none of us gets younger Let me ensure your future and you ensure mine your future his child that could be my future And I'd make you secure financially Money yes So completely mad think oh no, I couldn't do it now. It's it's different. I'd be alone I'd I'd be afraid but you needn't be I won't leave you for an instant you Sandra Let's call a truce. Oh what a truce until it's over Now you haven't told anyone else. Oh, no, of course not. We'll go away together secretly out to Arizona You can have your baby there. No one will know Sandra, they'll never know Where have you been all this time well, I drove into humor for a few things you have to stay all day 100 miles round trip. Here's some things for you. Cologne Halck bath salt Lilac I couldn't get cut in that big box. Oh Things we'll need later. What things stuff the doctor ordered. Did you bring my sleeping tablet? No forget them No, but why I asked the doctor what did he say? He said no, but you couldn't have told him how badly I was sleeping I told him how badly I was and he demanded that I have to keep my eyes on you. You're an expert at that Before I want a cigarette Sandra how many is that you smoke today my food since lunch Well, there are only seven left in this pack holds all right all right all right I smoked 12 cigarettes since lunch and if you really want to know I had six this morning I knew that spying on me Why because Sandra you're such a liar. Well you smoke your head off sure, but that's me. I'm not special Come on now. Why don't we take a walk? Oh, it's too cold. Well you wear your fair coat. That's a good idea I'll wear my new mink cape. There might be a photographer from fashion waiting to snap me as I step over a cactus Your place Sandra. Oh, I'm sick of cards Listen to that wind Sandra this will probably turn into a cyclone one of those tornadoes you read about in the newspapers and blow us all away Come on Sandra. We've got time for one more game Can't you think about that lamp choking me? The pity you couldn't have found a place with electric light. Well, I could have but I'd also have found newspaper reporters You want privacy you have to pay for it. I want another cigarette. All right Why don't you tell me I've smoked enough tonight? Well, it'll take your mind off the weather go ahead That's right. Be patient with me. I'm a spoiled child an imbecile to be humored Maggie the martyr you make me sick Come on Sandra, let's play. I've had enough of this. I'm fit up with the whole business I'm going to get out of here Sandra. No, let me go. You can't keep me here. I won't stay Don't let yourself go like this. I'm going outside and start that car and get out of here Be careful that lamp you'll set the house on fire. Oh, I will that'll be fine That'll settle everything Sorry Sandra Come on now. Let's go on with the game. Well, doctor any minute now got that water. Yes, it's already Yes, Andrew. All right, she'll come through this fine. She's as healthy as a horse that woman You seem more worried about this baby than she is I think I am ever have a child of your own No, hmm a pity just the sort of woman who should happen. Oh, well, you'll have plenty in time. I Suppose so. Hmm. It spells life with capital letters a woman without a child is like a man without an arm the right arm Tragic the father dying before the child born. Did you know the father? Yes What sort of man was it? Oh He was very handsome Very clever and very gay Well, this is it Sound eat my beloved. Yeah, we've had a long conversation about that Violet I was thinking. Yeah, mr. Pete went to college at Yale I suppose he'd like young people to go there too. Oh, yes, and this may but shall I go up and pack his things now Within the morning be through enough He sure gonna look might have fun up at that Yale college without no teeth Yes I did I didn't know she was coming here. You better feed him father. Yes Jefferson there's a telephone answering. Yeah, yes, I was coming telephone Maggie. Where are you? I did. I'm in here Where did you spring from Washington? I came like the wind. How are you Maggie? I never felt better Maggie? I want to talk to you. What's the matter? I hardly know how to begin my darling. You're trembling. What is it? Yes, Jefferson you wanted on the telephone. It's a telegram. All right. Come on out here and listen That's what I wanted to see you about a day to wait. Will you Maggie? Hello? Yes, this is this van Allen From where? I'm Pete Maggie your uncle Ted was down on a place called my name darling. Please go ahead Yes Could not wait telephone connection Yes On my way your uncle telephone me early this morning. He said I can't hear Go ahead Yes arrive Carter'sville about ten Thursday love Thank you arrive Carter'sville About ten Thursday Pete and another man have been found. Why didn't you tell me? When did you first hear this? Well Colonel Harriston came down to your uncle and arrive Carter'sville about ten Thursday? Why that's today Today Yeah, I went to the airport. No, I came right here. I couldn't wait Did you see him? Yes, I've just been getting acquainted. Oh He's asleep. I I wanted you to see him when he was awake. What's his name Maggie? We call him young Pete Do you like him? Oh, he's lovely Darling you look ill. Oh, no, I'm all right. Are you really? Oh, do you think I've changed? The gray hair a sober solid citizen remember yes Maggie you haven't changed at all haven't I Oh darling nothing was the same without you Pete nothing, you know this young fellow. He's like me. Yes. Yes. How old is it? Well, he's three months and four days exactly our son He Was all I had of you Pete Except so often I had the feeling you were here laughing at me and chasing me and Running around in that silly little plane. I'm really here now Yes here with you and our son You know, I always said you'd have beautiful children. Duh darling. I Yes, Maggie. What's the matter? No, nothing You're home That's all I want to think about darling You've come home This is the Columbia broadcasting system After a brief intermission, mr. DeMille will bring us act three of the great lies starring Loretta young George Brent and Mary Aster In our mail the other morning came an interesting letter from a lady in Spokane, Washington It's my first fan letter. She writes and it's a very nice letter indeed a gracious Thank you for the Lux Radio Theater and for Lux Flakes. She tells us this story One day a neighbor dropped in while she was getting ready to wash the lunch dishes now Don't stop your work my dear. Let me help. Oh and over like that's too good to refuse. Here's a dish towel Goodness rule. Do you use Lux for the dishes? Wish I could afford to afford to don't you know how frifty Lux is? Look how those suds bubble up and I only use a few plates There's nothing kinder to your hands than Lux I know and a little goes so far Why I use Lux for most of my washing as well as the dishes and this box has lasted a long time too Well, maybe I'll try it out myself the letter continues The other day I was at my neighbor's house when she gave her grocery order at the top of her list was Lux Flakes Most women do know how gentle and pure Lux Flakes are Perhaps some of you don't realize how economical it is to use new quick Lux for the dishes You know, it's the suds that count and Lux gives more suds ounce for ounce than any of ten other leading soaps tested Now that's true even in hard water Why not save your hands from that unattractive dish pan look when it costs so little? Tests have proved that red rough hands begin to grow love there in from two to seven days After changing from harsh soaps to gentle new quick Lux just try it. You'll never want to do dishes any other way Now mr. DeMille returns to the microphone Act three of the great lie Starring Loretta young George Brent and Mary Aster Several months have gone by and Pete still doesn't know that Sandra is the mother of his young son Now Pete and Maggie are in New York in a hotel dining room with Colonel Harriston Pete the proud father has just brought out the latest snapshots of the baby I have dozens of these Colonel and if you really enjoy looking at them I could send you about 50 to Washington. He'll send you a hundred and fifty if you want The fine boy Pete. Fine. Pete darling Sandra hello. Oh, it's good to see you. Hello Maggie. Well, what does one say to a ghost? Oh, just hello I guess I couldn't believe it when I heard you were alive. It was in Australia just before a concert I drank a bottle of champagne and played Chopin's funeral watch in swing time Have a drink. No, thanks. Oh, I'm sorry. Colonel Harriston, Miss Kovac. How do you do? How do you do? Staying in town long? No, we are going home tomorrow. Oh running away so soon Well, we've been here a week and I miss the country. That's what she said, but don't believe her She's going back to her boy. Oh, I I've got something to show you. Yes, Sandra. Oh pictures. That's the son in there What do you think of it? Why he's so big he's 31 inches tall weighs 29 pounds has eight teeth and he bites Oh, he's lovely here. Here's one taken with his mother I think he looks like Maggie, but she will have it. He looks like me. He is like you. Don't you think so Maggie? Yes, I do. Oh, but he has Maggie's smile. Perhaps I don't know much about babies Maggie that must have been quite a moment when you told Pete about the baby. I'd like to have been there Pete We better run. We're catching the early train tomorrow. You have to go so soon Well, anyway, it was wonderful to see you Pete and I think your son is grand only Maggie could have a baby like that Oh, of course. I think you'd be a perfect baby no matter who his mother was Good night. Good night. Miss Maggie. There's a lady here to see you. I know where is she valid inside and the living room Go tell Mr. Pete, please. Yes So Maggie Well, here I am Yes, I was expecting you going to ask me to stay No, you'd better. What do you want, Sandra? I can't even guess, can you? Oh Maggie, you're marvelous Pete hello darling. How are you? What are you doing in this part of the world? Well, I hardly know myself. I was motoring to white sulfur springs all of a sudden I realized I'd gone straight through to Maryland. I remembered you lived in Maryland and here I am I hope I'm not intruding. Why? Of course not. You're looking fine Sandra. I feel well a little tired. Oh, I love this place I was wondering could you put me up for the night? I was going to white sulfur for a rest anyway I've had a tough season. Well, yes, I suppose we could couldn't we Maggie? Why yes. Oh, that'd be lovely. Thanks. By the way, where's the baby? I can hardly wait to see him It was a boy, wasn't it? Yes Would you like a drink, Sandra? Not now. Thanks. I'm dying to see the baby. Come on then. It's upstairs. Oh Pete It's time for his bath. I know. Well, can't I see him in his bath? Certainly. Come on Isn't the proud mama coming? Come on Maggie. No, not now. I want to speak to Violet about dinner. You run along. I'll join you later Maggie, it's almost seven o'clock. I'm coming You were right down Sandra. What's the matter, Headay? There's nothing about it. Here she is. Hello Maggie. Sorry, I'm late Cocktail dear, we're way ahead of you. We've had three. Three? Oh Maggie, that wifely tone. Do you count his cigarettes too? Doctor's orders. Doctor's orders. How familiar that sounds. Would you believe it once I was under doctor's orders? You. Yes I had to count my cigarettes, my drinks, and my calories and what's more I had a little dragon watching over me every minute to see that I did it. It doesn't seem to do you any harm. No, I've never seen you look better. Come on, have another one. Oh, I shouldn't. But how I love to do things I shouldn't. To my hostess. Maggie, my dear, may you always be as happy as you are now. Thank you. Dinner's served, Miss Maggie. Good. Come on, Sandra. Dinner. Oh, the air down here has really given me an appetite. You're a great traveler, Sandra. You'd love Australia, Pete. It's a great man's country. Earthy and exciting. Reminds me of our own west. You know Arizona. Arizona? Why, that's where young Pete was born. Oh really, Maggie? Yes. On a little ranch. Not here in the ancestral home? No. Well, that's when I was missing. Pretty grim for Maggie. No wonder she wanted to get away from people. Miss Pete. Yes? You want it on the telephone, sir. Long distance. Oh, here you go. Jefferson, we'll have our coffee in the drawing room. Yes. I'll take my brandy with me if you don't mind. Oh, I love this room, Maggie. It's very like you. Quiet and peaceful. Sandra, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Nothing. You're going to hold me to my bargain? Yes. When I made it, I didn't know Pete was alive. When you thought he was dead, you didn't want that baby. Now that he's alive, you want them both. It was never a part of the bargain that Pete should be alive. The money you gave me is in trust. It's never been touched. You're not going to tell Pete. No, Maggie. I'm not going to tell him. You're going to tell him. And I'm going to stay here until you do. Well, that's that. Harrison, that's a new plane he wants me to see. Pete, I think I'm going to say good night. I won't have any coffee. It might keep me awake. And I want a good night's sleep. Sleep? Why, you're not turning in now. Oh, Maggie looks a little tired. Are you Maggie? Well, but it's so early. Oh, I won't go to bed right away. I'll read and write some letters. Besides, you've got lunch and guests tomorrow, haven't you? Yes. Well, then I think you've had quite enough for one evening. Good night and try and get some rest. Good night, Sandra. I'll come up with you. Oh, don't bother, Maggie. I can find my way. Good night. Good night. Coffee, dear? What's going on between you two? Nothing. Well, something must have happened. Did Sandra say anything to upset you? No, she didn't. Well then, my darling, don't you think you've let me down a little? How? Well, I don't know why Sandra came here, but I'm sure she came here for some reason, and I particularly wanted to see how happy we are. We are happy, aren't we? Of course, darling. Well, then don't you think you might have taken some other way of showing it? You hardly ate and you hardly spoke. Anyone would think that I beat you in private. I'm sorry. Oh, Maggie, there's something between us tonight. I don't know what it is, but it's like flying in a fog. I can't seem to get my bearings and I don't like it. We've always told each other everything, haven't we? Yes. That's been the great thing. No secrets. Always honest with each other, haven't we? Yes. Well, then don't you think you can tell me what's making you unhappy? Maggie, I think I know what it is. It's Sandra. Her being here is upset you, hasn't it? And you think that, well, that I still find her attractive, don't you? Do you? I'd be lying if I told you anything else. Any man would find Sandra attractive. Perhaps even a little exciting. But don't you see, Maggie, I'm not just any man now. Well, I'm your husband. The father of young Pete, and believe me, that makes a whale of a difference. You and young Pete. You'd have to be a man to know what that means, but it's the tuss. Yeah, what time is it, Violet? I didn't get to sleep too early this morning. Why, it's 10 o'clock. Oh, that wretched lunch. What am I going to do? Well, the first thing you're going to do is drink your coffee. There ain't nobody coming for almost an hour. I don't want anything to go wrong, Violet. Is, is Madam Kovac up yet? Lord, yes, and she was up with the birds, had breakfast, and then come to the nurse and took the baby. Took the baby? Did she take him? Miss Maggie, what's the matter with you this morning? You as wide as a tablecloth. Why, she just took him for a little walk. They're downstairs, aren't they? Oh, oh. Well, get my clothes, Violet. I'm getting up. Good morning, Maggie. Good morning. Good morning. Sleepy head. I'm getting acquainted with this young man. He's a darling. Yes, isn't he? I'm thinking of stealing him. You'd better not try it. Come on, sonny. Back to the nursery for you. Sit down, Sandra. I want to speak to you. Yes. I think we ought to have a talk, Maggie. I've changed my mind since last night. If you think I can stand by and let Pete think that child is yours and say nothing, you're crazy. Why didn't you tell him the truth when he came back? Why did you lie to him? I didn't lie to him. But Pete thinks that child is yours? He is. What? I didn't lie to Pete. That child is mine. Your part was finished the minute you gave that baby to me. From that day on, I've had only one purpose in my life. To make that baby mine and forget that you ever existed. So you told Pete the baby was yours. What did you think I'd do about that? I don't know what I thought. I thought that you'd never come back. But perhaps you'd marry and stay away or perhaps you'd die. I hoped you would die. But I didn't die and I haven't stayed away and I want that child. Sandra, you walked away from that baby without one backward look. But I've seen him now. But you could have it any time. We made no rule about that. I was in Australia. Oh, it takes more than an ocean to keep a mother from a child she really wants to see. In all those months, you never wrote me one line asking about him. You were perfectly satisfied to take him off your hands, to tend him with me. Why has that been my child? I'd never have given up. But he's not your child and you're going to give him up. You could justify that lie to yourself, but you can't justify it to Pete. He'll never forgive you, Maggie. Sandra, you're not going to tell Pete, are you? You see, you're afraid. You don't dare tell him how you've lied to him. And I'll tell you something else you're afraid of. You're afraid you'll lose Pete too and you will. He never loved you as much as he loved me. You were second choice. You caught him on the rebound. There's only one thing holding him to you, Maggie, and that's my baby. I'd be too proud to hold a man with another woman's child. What are you looking so sad about? I've got something to tell you. Well? I've lied to you about young Pete. What do you mean? I mean, he isn't mine. What are you talking about? He belongs to Sandra. Sandra's his mother. He's mine, Pete. Yours and mine. I'll tell you as simply as I can. When you were in South America before you were missing, Sandra told me that she was going to have a child. Your child. And then when you didn't come back and we thought you were dead, well, it wasn't an easy situation for Sandra to face alone. So I went away with her and stayed until young Pete was born. And then I persuaded her to let me take him. It was the only way he could have the place that he was entitled to after all he was your son. So Sandra gave him to me so that he could have that place. Wait a minute. That's why you went to Arizona alone. That's why you didn't take Violet around later with you. Yes. Yes. I thought there was something funny. You were always so, so shy about taking credit for young Pete. Now remember you're saying no matter who the mother is, the baby would be perfect. At the time, I thought that was very sweet. I liked it. I thought it rather touching myself. And you, Sandra, ever since you've been in this house, you've been hammering sarcastically at Maggie about that baby. The proud mother business. I thought there was something. But Pete, don't you see I... Yes, I see. You told everyone the baby was yours. You lied to everyone. When I came back, you even lied to me. How long did you intend to go on lying, Maggie? I couldn't bear the thought of losing either of you. Why are you telling me now? Because now Sandra wants the baby. You mean you're going to take the baby away? He's mine, Pete. When I gave him up, I didn't know you were still alive. It's different now. Well, how is it different now? Sandra just told me that I was only holding you because of young Pete, her child. And that if you knew I'd lied to you, you'd... Well, you would leave me. Well, Sandra, the baby is yours. If you want to take him, there isn't very much we can do about it. He's a wonderful kid, and we'll... we'll miss him naturally. But Maggie, thank heaven we've got each other. Oh, darling. Well, this is another side of you, Pete. The noble forgiving husband side. You're very pathetic, darling, and just a wee bit nauseating. Sandra, wait. Young Pete's not ready. I have to get him dressed, and could you give me just a little while to say goodbye to him? Don't be a fool, Maggie. What would I do with a baby without a man around to bring him up? No, not forgiving me. I know that. You hate me, don't you? You can tell the truth now. She's gone. You hate me. Please say something. Don't just stand there looking at me like that. Say what you're thinking. We'd better go upstairs, darling. I think young Pete wants to see his mother. Come on, Maggie. Just a moment. Mr. DeMille will bring our stars back to the microphone for their curtain calls. 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And better wear is more important to us today than ever. Yes, it's thrifty as well as easy to save our pretty washables with gentle luxe care. It's care that experts advise. More makers of fine washables advise luxe flakes than advise all other soaps combined. Now, here's Mr. DeMille with our stars. When three stars have taken as many curtain calls in the Luxe Radio Theater for the Retta Young, George Brent and Mary Aster, it goes without saying that we're delighted to have them take another. Thank you, Mr. DeMille. I always look forward to these weeks in the Luxe Radio Theater. You three were certainly convincing in the great lie. Well, that's the only time I've been called a liar that I enjoyed it, CP. Careful, George. Careful you'll get me in wrong with the ladies. I feel a little embarrassed, Mary, that every time you've been our guest here, we've given you the rather disagreeable part of the other woman. The Northwest Mounted Police in reverse, Mr. DeMille. The lady who never gets her man. But the lady who did get an Academy Award for her performance in the great lie. Mary, we all want to congratulate you on winning that award. And everybody in Hollywood agrees with that, Mary. Thank you both. It's the nicest thing that ever happened to me. Naturally, I'm very proud of the honor. And I think the audience should know that when Mary arrived here for rehearsal the day she won the award, our whole cast broke into spontaneous applause. That was exactly how we felt about it. What's going on here next week, CP? A delightful comedy, George. It's Paramount's hip motion picture, The Lady Eve. And our stars will be Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Merland. You'll hear Barbara Stanwyck in the same part she played on the screen. The beautiful card shop who finds a victim in Ray Merland until love takes a winning hand in the game. And we are sure to win with fortune dealing us The Lady Eve next Monday night. Well, the picture was a great success, Mr. DeMille. I know you'll have a fine play. Good night. Good night. Good night. Great lie, you're certainly worth telling. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, joined me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night. When the Lux Radio Theater presents Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Merland in The Lady Eve. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Henry Morgenthau Jr. Secretary of the Treasury has honored our sponsor, the makers of Lux Flakes and Lux Toilets Hope, with a citation which reads as follows. For a distinguished service rendered on behalf of the National Defense Savings Program, this citation is awarded to Lever Brothers for radio promotion. Needless to say, we are proud that our sponsors' efforts on this program and on all other Lever Brothers programs have won this recognition. You can be sure that Lever Brothers Company will continue to do all in its power to promote the sale of defense bonds and to further every other effort to win the war. The picture, The Great Lie, was directed by Edmund Goulding. Loretta Young is currently seen on the screen in the Columbia Picture bedtime story. George Brent appeared tonight through the courtesy of Warner Brothers Studio and will soon be seen in their production of In This Our Life, in which he co-stars with Betty Davis. Mary Aster's current picture is the Warner Brothers production, The Maltese Falcon. Heard in tonight's play were Ruby Dandridge as Violet, Griff Barnett as Colonel Harrison, Verna Felton as Aunt Ada, Buck Woods as Jefferson, and Charles Seal, Boyd Davis, Arthur Gilmore, Leon Ladoe, and Leo Cleary. Tune in next Monday night to hear Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Merland in the Lady Eve. All music was directed by Louis Silvers and your announcer has been Melville Ruick.