Family Theater: Violets for Courage

The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents, Violets for Courage, starring Jane Wyatt. Robert Ryan is your host. Our things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. This is a season for giving thanks. This is a time to count the gifts we have received, and humbly to thank the one who gave them. We give thanks to God for our food and our

shelter in a world that is hungry and cold. We give thanks that we can live and speak and worship as free men in a world that knows hatred and oppression. Above all are we thankful for our homes and our families and for the spirit of faith that makes them strong.

In this Thanksgiving season we pray to God that these blessed gifts may never be taken from us. Robert Ryan returns for another brief word following this family theater presentation starring Jane Wyatt in Violets for Courage.

Winter is coming to the little town of Dinsdale, winter with its gay promise of ice skates and snowmen, thanksgiving turkeys and fat Santa Claus', games and dances, and long cozy evenings by the fire. Yes, it looks as if there'll be a jolly time for all, except perhaps the little house at 38 Popular Street.

It's a shabby little house. The paint has long since begun to crack and peel, and one of the yellow shutters hangs loose and bangs every now and then in the wind. Inside Lucy Curtis seated at the dining table with a pencil and paper, size at the familiar sound, and says for the thousandth time.

How, Bob, you must get that shutter fixed. Yes, mother. Now, now where was I? I think it was the electric bell. Oh, yes. That's $3.15, and $3.15 for $32.74 leaves. Oh, dear. Why couldn't that have been a night round number?