Family Theater: The Gold Bug

Family Theatre presents Maureen O'Hara, Stephen McNally and Howard McNair. From Hollywood, the mutual network in collaboration with Family Theatre Incorporated brings you Stephen McNally and Howard McNair in Edgar Allan Poe's classic, The Gold Bug.

To introduce the drama, your hostess Maureen O'Hara. Thank you, Jean. This week Americans are honoring the 100th anniversary of the death of one whose contributions to American letters seem destined to live forever. forever. For in Baltimore, one hundred years ago, Edgar Allan Poe died after a short and stormy span of forty years. In tonight's tale, we bring you one of the analytical stories

of Poe, which started a whole new era of modern writing. For his logical, step-by-step recreation and solution of a problem is the basis of the present-day mystery with which we are all familiar. It is a story that reflects the earlier and possibly the happier years of Poe's life, based upon his years in the Army when he was stationed at Fort Moultrie, South

Carolina, and where he often wandered the shores of Sullivan's Island. It is this island that serves as the setting for our story, and it is my pleasure to present Stephen McNally as our narrator Edgar with Howard McNier as William LeGrand in the Gold Bug.

Often in our work we lawyers see the end product that results when man senses suddenly desert him, leaving his body prey to the lashes of his emotions and his soul to an even greater scourge.

And once it seemed I saw the beginning of this awful force, a force that turns man man and a beast that erases from his consciousness all but the galling prods that drive him ever faster to his dreadful doom. It started that day when I returned to Sullivan's island. It's a lonely island in the fall of the year and never before had I experienced the chill winds