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She Married Her Boss

Lux Radio Theatre · September 25, 1939 · 59 min · 10,421 words

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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Ginger Rogers and George Brent with Edith Fellows in She Married Her Boss. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil D. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Our play tonight, She Married Her Boss ought to interest nearly everyone who's ever been married, or is planning to be married, or whoever had a boss, or whoever is a boss. And that can't leave out very many.

Women in business are a very familiar part of American life, and so is the conflict between home and the career. Tonight we have a very efficient young woman in love with a very efficient gentleman who doesn't respond except in business matters.

This situation occurs many times in life today when a business girl decides to make a career of love. And because our play is so characteristic of American life, perhaps it was fitting that we cast the heroine at a baseball game.

I hadn't thought of Ginger Rogers as Julia Scott and she married her boss until I saw her cheering wildly for a rather dusty gentleman who had just told him second face at the Hollywood Ball Park a few days ago.

At that moment Ginger personified the typical American girl who can run an office or a household with equal efficiency, who drives a tennis ball with uncanny power, cheers as a runner slides into second, and whose hats have more humor than logic.

logic is no mystery to our typical American girl either. The logic of Aristotle and Plato, or the logic of Luxe toilet soap. Instead of buying soap the way she buys the hat, she makes a logical deduction. She knows that Luxe toilet soap is his final soap she can buy so she uses it. In fact, it's the American girl's enthusiasm for our product that makes

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