Hired Wife

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you William Powell and Marnaloy in hired white. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm sure a certain telephone conversation must be repeated countless times a year. On one end of the phone is a girl in the ticket booth of a neighborhood picture theatre. On the other end is a customer who wants to know what the picture is.

When the girl can say it's William Powell and Murna Law, and... Well, she just doesn't get a chance to finish because the customer is already on his way with the whole family to see Bill and Murna in any picture.

Tonight in the Lux Radio Theatre, we're in the fortunate position of having this golden team in a comedy that would stand on its own feet even without them. The play is hired wife, adapted from the universal picture, and it presents a situation that might have been tailored to order for our stars.

A businessman, that's Bill, is faced with the interesting dilemma of losing his business or acquiring a wife. Any wife. His secretary, that's Murna, gets the business-like assignment of finding him a wife. And that places her in an even worse dilemma.

But I believe what she does about it is what any woman would do in her place. Not every business office, unfortunately, can boast a secretary as lovely as Manaloy, but the average in this land of the free and the beautiful is rather high.

One proof of that is the number of former secretaries who are now acting on the screen. Among the girls who play a symphony on the typewriter keys all day, you'll find that Luxe toilet soap is pretty much standard equipment.