Family Theater: Robert of Sicily

Family Theatre presents Irene Dunn and Raymond Burr. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre Incorporated brings you Irene Dunn, relating Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's story of King Robert of Sicily, with Raymond Burr as King Robert.

You introduce the drama, your host is a narrator, Miss Irene Dunn. Thank you, Jean. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's name is most familiar today as the author of such great American poems is Evangeline, Song of here, Watha, the wreck of the Hesperus, and the village blacksmith.

But it was in the tales of a wayside inn that the poet drew upon his vast travel experiences to retail stories in verse that had been popular for centuries and prose and narration. In reading these tales, we find that long fellow stressed the simple things of life or his drama, and such is the story we have adapted from the tales of a wayside inn.

invite you to listen now to Raymond Burr in the title role of King Robert of Sicily. Robert of Sicily sat at Vespa's one evening with the voices of the choir scarcely touching his consciousness. Attired in the goal, finer is appropriate of his position as the ruler of all Sicily, King Robert could not keep his mind from the many affairs of state.

Throughout the long day, petition after petition had been laid before him, some large, some small, each distracting, and so Robert the great and powerful king of Sicily sat in the beautiful church surrounded by his retinue of attendance and heard only a vague Latin word here and there.

But suddenly one such word stood out from all the others and brought him upright with curiosity. He turned to Ronaldo, his chamber then. Think you not that the monks sing poorly tonight, Ronaldo? I had not noticed it, Sire.