Family Theater: The World of David Lee

The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents The World of David Lee starring Ravi McDowell. Peggy Ann Garner is your hostess. More things are brought by prayer than this world dreams of.

At night we bring you a story of a boy, a young boy growing up in a world that is searching for peace and happiness. Before we present this picture of home life in America, I'd like to leave you with this thought.

fundamental conviction upon which family theater is founded. That home life, our family life, is the most important influence on us as individuals and on our nation in general. More than anything else, it has been a weakening of family ties that is responsible for much of what has been called juvenile delinquency. But there is no problem of juvenile or parental delinquency

in homes where families gather together daily for family prayer, because God's blessing on a home brings a wonderful peace and happiness. Peggy Ann Garner, tonight's family theatre hostess, returns following our story, The World of David Lee, which stars Roddy McDowell.

And the voice of that fitful song sings on, and is never still. A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. I've heard a lot of people say that the youth of today is confused and bewildered by the world.

I don't know about that, it seems to me that most kids get a lot of fun out of life. And if they are bewildered, maybe it's at the way grown-ups often act and leave so many things unfinished for the kids of today to untangle tomorrow.

Yes, David Lee, how very true that is in your own world, which is the world of other boys and girls your own age. Perhaps the best way for us to find out more about that world is to meet you in a most important segment of it. At home, we'll have a chance to meet the other members of your