Family Theater: Evangeline

Family Theater presents John Lund, Bona Freeman and Virginia Grey. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's unforgettable poem, Evangeline, starring John Lund and Virginia Grey. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Bona Freeman. Thank you, Jean.

Generation after generation of Americans have been brought up on the poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And Dick Hymn can be attributed attributed a major share of the American love for poetry. He was particularly interested in the early days of our country, and in a vangeling he chose a tragic episode in history.

The recounting of how the small French colony of Acadia was ceded to the British by the French after the Treaty of 1713. The Acadians, their colony forcibly broken up, were deported and scattered throughout the new land of America.

Oh, more than 200 years later, an American father enters his daughter's nursery. No, please, no, no, no, no. From whence it comes disquieting sound. Oh, he's got a guy! Here, here. What's going on here? Turn off that radio.

Oh, Danny, don't turn it off. I want to hear what happens. I know you do, but that's no bedtime story for little girls like you. No? No. Here, let me read you something. Let's see. Oh, here's Puss and Boots.

Oh, that's kid stuff. Oh, pardon me. Well, how about Hansel and Gretel? The one where they threw the old witch into the oven and burned her all up? No, no, not that one. I'm trying to get you away from that sort of thing.

Daddy, what's that book you're reading? This one? Oh, you wouldn't. Well, maybe you would like it at that. Has it got shooting in it? No, this is the story of a lovely lady, a vangelan.