Brother Orchid

Battle Brian, Carol Landis, Donald Crisp. The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre. Your host, the director of the Star's own theatre, Roger Pryor. Hey everyone, your neighborhood good Gulf dealer and the Gulf oil companies welcome you to the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre.

You know, frequently here in the Gulf Theatre we try to do some switch casting. To present your favorite stars in the sort of roles you don't expect them to play. Well tonight, we've got a real switch for you.

It's Pat O'Brien as a New York gangster. Carol Landis, Hollywood's newest star discovery as his gun model, and Donald Crisp and the role which he created in the screenplay, Brother Orkin. That's tonight's offering from the Gulf Theater.

Pat O'Brien, Donald Crisp and Carol Landis in Brother Orkin. Adapted by Charles Thaswell and with music by Oscar Bradley's Gulf Orchestra with Frank Tewes conducting. In just a moment, our stars will be on stage and I'll set the scene for tonight's play.

Before that, however, I'd like to take you back to two days ago, when the Posten was handing out envelopes with big red hearts inside them. I imagine most of those envelopes were addressed to the children.

But if there had been one in the bunch addressed to the family automobile, care of the Jones family, I'll bet that right in the center of the lace border had a motor oil. Because during the cold weather, there isn't any better valentine for your automobile than Gulf pride. Your friend the Gulf dealer knows that. In fact, many Gulf dealers have had their

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