Family Theater: Let Us Remember

The Mutual Broadcasting System presents the Family Theater, starring Claude Jommen Jr. and J. Carol Nash with Robert Young as your host. More things are wrought by prayer, for this world dreams are. Good evening, this is Robert Young.

I hope that by now listening to Family Theaters become a habit with you. It ought to be because Family Theater is your program, you know, dedicated to your family. The idea for this program came from among you in the radio audience.

You ask that we, the performers of pictures and radio and the technical people, get together and bring you, the family theater, to acknowledge all the fundamental things we deeply believe in. We believe as you do that a happy family is just about the greatest thing a man could wish for.

And we sincerely believe that prayer, family prayer, prayers asking God for His help and and prayers acknowledging that help will keep our families together and happy. Tonight's Play on Family Theater is a story of a typical American family named Jones, and a very unusual experience which happened to their young son Bill.

But wait a minute, rather than my telling you, why not listen to our original story by D.H. Johnson entitled, Let Us Remember, featuring that young star of the yearling Claude Jarmon, Jr. and J. Carol Nash.

That's been said, that the sad thing about being young is that you're never old enough to appreciate it. Take young Bill Jones, for example. He has the youth for which many of us would trade all our possessions.

He has good health, a good brain, and judging by the house on whose back steps he is now unhappily sitting, a good home. And yet to his pale skinny, Bill is saying, Gee, I wish I was an old man. I wish I was real elderly. I wish I was 35 or 40 even.