It is the purpose of this paper to prove that if each of X and Y is a compact Hausdorff space containing infinitely many points, and X X Y is the continuous image of a compact ordered space L, then both X and Fare metrizable.2 The preceding theorem is a generalization of a theorem [l ] by Mardesic and Papic, who assume that X, Y, and L are also connected. Young, in [3], shows that the Cartesian...