Elmer the Great

Hope, Rita Hayworth, Elvia Alman. The Golf Screen Guild Theater. Your neighborhood good golf dealer in the golf oil company is welcome you to the Golf Theater, the one place where you meet all your favorite stars.

Tonight's the Golf Theater presents Bob Hope, Rita Hayworth, Elvia Alman, Oscar Bradley, and his golf orchestra and your host, the director of the Golf Theater, Roger Pryor. Good evening, everyone. Faceball it with us again.

And tonight we're doing a baseball play, Elmer the Great by George M. Cohen and Ringlogner. Bob Hope is Elmer, and his sweetheart Nelly is Rita Hayworth. Rita, you know, is the Columbia picture star borrowed by MGM for an important role in their new picture, Susan and God.

We're mighty grateful to Rita for stepping in at the last minute to replace Anne Sheridan, who was suddenly taken ill. That spirit of cooperation is typical of Hollywood stars. All they feel at the Gulf Theater is their own theater.

Because the money they would ordinarily receive for appearing here, golf gives instead to the motion picture relief fund to help meet its needs and to build a home for the less fortunate members of the picture industry.

And now I want to introduce a man who, despite his rapid rise the same, all was confined time to do a benefit performance. Who do they call when the Legion wants a master of ceremonies?

Eddie Cantor. Who do they call when the else needed an after-dinner speaker? Jack Benny. Who do they call? Here he is, folks, none other than Bob Hope. Thank you. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you Roger. Roger Pryor and I have a lot in common. He sells gas and I give it away. But I'm glad. I'm glad to be back here on this show again. I don't mind plugging gasoline twice.