Family Theater: God and a Red Scooter

The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents God and a Red Scooter starring Jane Wyman and James Craig and the music of Meredith Wilson. Gary Cooper is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Good evening. This is Gary Cooper. We've got a swell story for you tonight, but you know something I think the best story is the one about the reason for this program being on the air right now.

You know why it is on the air? Because a lot of people like you and well like me, we figure that the greatest thing in our country today is our families. So we put this program on the air and called it Family Theater.

And we want it to remind everybody just how important our families are and just how important it is that our families be kept together. And more than that, so many of you have wanted radio to express a conviction for you.

A conviction that prayer, simple family prayer, can keep our families together and happy. Well, that's the story behind Family Theater briefly. To tell you and start, the entire story would take a long time, but maybe if enough of you were interested, we'd take that time.

Let us know. Meanwhile, let's listen to our story. Sleep is beautiful. Sleep is a soft hand, smoothing the frowns and frets what tired faces of men. Sleep is another hand, rocking the cradle of the world, rocking its softly, rocking men and women and all the little children, the sweet silence and peace.

That's what sleep is. And you want to know something? I pity the man who does not know how to sleep. Consider little Eddie. Five years old. I love little children like Eddie. Eddie knows how to sleep.