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Family Theater: Son of Mine

Family Theater · November 20, 1947 · 28 min · 4,530 words

The transcript of “Son of Mine”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 20, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Son of Mine starring Ward Bond and Richard Lyon. Eddie Cantor is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams are.

How your family theater host for tonight, Eddie Cantor. This is a very busy world in which we live. Whether you're in Hollywood or New York, it's just the same. You find people rushing around here and there, back and forth.

You call up a friend to say hello. Before you get halfway through telling him your troubles, he says, but I'm too busy to talk now. Your friends are too busy to call. Your relatives too busy to write. Everybody's too busy. Yes, sometimes too busy to do a lot of things like being kind and thoughtful. Too busy to be smiling and cheerful, or lend a helping hand

to those who need it. And many homes are unhappy, because parents haven't time for their children, time to get together as a family. Why? Well, they're too busy, that's all. We need a little more time out, folks. Yes, all of us, especially at home. We'd have a lot more happier homes if people took more time out for home life together, more time out for family prayer.

Yes, that's important. Because if we're too busy to think of God, too busy to find time for family prayer, then we're really too busy. We'll hear from Eddie Candor again later in the program. Now Family Theater presents Son of Mine starring Ward Bond, Richard Lyon, with Dan O'Hurlay.

My name is Mark Bronson. Beth, she's my wife. Well, we've been married three years before Randy. Our only child was born. Having him met an awful lot to us. respawning middle, I'm not sure. Well, Randy's 12 now.

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