Family Theater: Melancholy Clown

The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Inc. presents The Melancholy Clown, starring Lionel Barrymore and Dean Stockwell, your hostess by transcription, Lizbeth Scott. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Here is Lizbeth Scott. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a simple solution to every family problem. Day after day we hear families breaking up through separation and divorce, and it seems so tragic that men and women who once pledged their love until death to us part. Now cannot live together in peace and harmony. That so many children are torn between two homes

and end up with no real home. Yes, what we need is a magic formula to make family problems disappear. Well, we, a family theater, can offer no magic. But we do have a solution to family difficulties that is simple and effective.

It is family prayer. Pray together each day as a family for the help you need. Bring God into your home and discover for yourselves that the family that prays together stays together. Elizabeth Scott returns following this week's Family Theater play.

A true story taken from the life of one of the greatest men of the American theater. Our stars Lionel Barrymore and Dean Stockwell. It was a hot July night in Manhattan. From the windows of his penthouse in the Gladstone, a regal white haired man looked down on the bright lights of Broadway, glittering like a handful of spill diamonds.

Lights that in the years gone by had proclaimed him to be one of the greatest figures of the The optical world. With a slight smile, he turned toward the drawing room. Then stopped short. The stare at a young man seated gingerly on the edge of an ornate gilt chair.