Elmer the Great

From Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark Griefing Cards bring you Mr. Bob Hope in Ring Lardner's Elmer the Great on the Hallmark Playhouse. Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars and outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors, the distinguished novelist Mr. James Hilton.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton. Tonight we have the pleasure of bringing to you a story by one of the world's greatest humeries, Ring Lardner. Ringlartner belongs to that distinguished company of American sport writers who have not only enriched the language but have added to the genuine literature of our time.

Indeed, I should think no anthology of great short stories could possibly be compiled without including one of Lartner's, and it might very well be our selection for tonight. Ringlartner was educated at Michigan University where he studied of all things mechanical engineering, but he soon found his real bet.

Among his best-known short stories is one called Hari Kane, a fine baseball story, and this he turned into a stage play entitled Elmer the Great. We have taken the liberty of modernizing it for our version tonight at the height of baseball's great, yearly, spectacle of the World Series, and we have the privilege of

presenting Bob Hope as Elmer. But now, before our curtain, here is Frank Goss, with a brief message from Hallmark. There are Hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar. Yes, for every occasion that calls for a...

Ringlardner was educated at Michigan University where he studied of all things mechanical engineering, but he soon found his real bet. Among his best known short stories is one called Hari Kane, a fine baseball story.