Family Theater: Round Trip

Pat O'Brien, John Leslie, Leo Penn, Star on Family Theater. The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Round Trip, starring John Leslie and Leo Penn.

Reef portions are transcribed. Pat O'Brien is your host. This week's Family Theater story is one that's been told about 10,000 times, I guess, part of it anyway. part about a boy and a girl who meet and fall in love and begin to dream of the happy ending which should be the outcome of any romance

at least according to the movies and best sellers everybody has these dreams and often they come true but not by dreaming alone marriage is too real a thing too serious too much made up of the thousand and one details of daily life to be built solidly on the gossamer webs of youthful dreams.

Marriage is living with a person morning, noon, and night, sharing every trouble and joy, accepting the bad qualities, and balancing them against the good. Marriage and romance are two mighty different things. Romance only needs a moon in June.

A marriage that endures needs work, sacrifice and prayer. It needs God with His help and guidance. It needs two people who realize that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. But we're getting away from our story though. Round trip it's called, and I hope you like it.

Pat O'Brien returns after our story which stars Jon Leslie and Leo Penn. It's Monday Early morning, and as the Long Island train slows for its scheduled stop at West Hampton, Elizabeth Brownley looks idly out the window at the crowded platform.

These are commuters, the working people whose lives are built around the arrival and departure of the train that carries them to that job in the city and home again. And usually on a Monday morning among the regular passengers, you can spot at the tell-tale-suit case of a city-dweller, returning from a weekend in the country, like the man who just got