How Green Was My Valley

How green was my valet? Starring the original cast. The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre. And now here is your host, the director of the Star's own theatre, Roger Pryor. Good evening everyone. The Gulf Oil companies, the enablerhood, good Gulf dealer, welcome you to the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre.

The Star's own theatre. Because the money they would ordinarily receive for appearing here, Gulf gives instead to the motion picture relief fund for its needs and for the home now well under construction. You know, just three weeks and two days ago, the prized Academy Award was given to Daryl Evzanek's production, How Green Was My Valley.

And tonight in tribute, your girl theater brings you the first radio presentation of this beautiful picture, Our Stars, the Original Cast, Walter Pigeon, Maureen O'Hara, Irving Pichel, Sarah Allgood, Rodney McDowell, Reese Williams, and Donald Crisp, the one the Academy Award for his portrayal of Mr. Morgan.

Before our curtain rises on Charles Tazwell's superb radio adaptation of How Green Was My Valley, I'd like to mention that when historians record the events of the day, one of the most stirring chapters will be the story of how America's great industrial plants turn from peace to the production of weapons for the defense of democracy.

And so it's only fitting that tonight we pay tribute to a group of men and women who have helped make this great work possible. They are the 2,496 employees of the Gulf companies who at this time are receiving awards for long service. Ordinarily these men and women would be honored in meetings of their fellows throughout the land, but today is not the

time to spare, so their recognition is taking place in the oil fields in refineries, offices and laboratories, wherever their daily work takes them. In all, there are now more than 12,000 Gulf men and women who have received these awards.