Family Theater: Man Against Death

The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with the Family Theater Incorporated presents Man Against Death, starring John Emery and Jane Wyatt, and the music of Meredith Wilson. John Charles Thomas is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams are.

Good evening dear friends, this is John Charles Thomas. Before we bring you tonight's stars, Miss Jane Wyatt and John Emery and tonight's story, I want to thank everyone who has written, wired or phone family theatre these past few weeks.

As you know, this is your program dedicated to your family in the hope that your family will always be well and happy. Not only for the sake of your own personal happiness, but because a happy family is the very foundation of a happy world, a peaceful world.

And it's wonderful to know that so many of you share the conviction that prayer, simple family prayer, can help keep our families and our homes together and happy. Remember a family that prays together stays together.

Tonight's story is something of a departure for your family theater. It's about a man and a woman who believed, as we all must, that all men are brothers, and whose labors and sacrifices wrought hope and health and inspiration to the millions of us everywhere, who today benefit from their devoted labors.

We give you John Emery and Jane Wyatt in John Slott's play, Man Against Death. The story of David and Diana Bruce is the story of an inspiration that led one man and his wife beyond the very outposts of civilization to do immortal deeds.

It is a story of two valiant warriors and their heroic sacrifice for humanity. They explored the lakes, the rivers, the islands, the jungles of Central Africa stumbling blindly, seeking the deadly microbe and digging into these pestilential holes, sharing his poverty, gloring in his obscure victories was a woman who was his inspiration. Diana Bruce, and so