Hired Wife

Joan Blondell, Melvin Douglas, and Mary Pickford. The Screen Gill Theatre. The director of the Star's Own Theatre, Roger Pryor. Hi everyone. Your neighborhood good gulf dealer and the Gulf Oil Company's wealth computer, the Gulf Screen Gill Theatre.

This evening we climax the brilliant season here in the Gulf Theatre with one of the brightest comedies of the year, hired wife, starring Melvin Douglas as a love-spitten cement king and Joan Blondell as his Earth Wild Secretary who becomes his wife for business reasons only.

The music is by Oscar Bradley's Gulf Orchestra with Frank Stewart's conducting. Later in the program we have a rare radio treat for you. Mary Pickford will appear here on our Gulf Theater stage to award one of the most significant propries in the picture industry.

And here comes the star. The audience breaks into applause as Joan Blondell and Melvin Douglas enter our Gulf Theater stage. And now the house lights fade and the curtain rises on hired wife In tonight's play you meet Melvin Douglas the Steven Dexter the cement king and John Blondell is Kendall his secretary I'll step into the role of Van Horn the company lawyer now our story centers around mr. Steven Dexter

Oh, why me mr. Pryor perhaps I'd better explain about me. I'm Kendall Browning private secretary to Stephen Dexter of the Dexter cement company. He calls me his right hand, but he's never put his left arm around me, Donna. Every year about this time he gets spring fever and breaks out with a blonde. The symptoms are always the same. He comes in wearing

a flower and a button holding wickling. My bonnet lies over the ocean off key. We've had a late spring this year and so far his temperature has remained normal and I've been hoping that, Oh, here we go again.