Family Theater: Ivanhoe

Family Theater presents McDonald Kerry and Hans Conrade. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you McDonald Kerry and Hans Conrade in Sir Walter Scott's Immortal Ivanhoe. To introduce the drama, your host and narrator, McDonald Kerry.

Thank you Gene Baker. I suppose that most of us have our favorite author. I know that I have mine and he's been so ever since that day long ago when I first picked up the most exciting, intriguing and romantic historical novel I've ever read.

it. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. Any more than I can put it down to day if I as much as open it to the first page. This favorite author of mine is Sir Walter Scott, and the novel is his famous historical classic, Ivanhoe. That is why it is such a pleasure

for me to tell it to you tonight on Family Theater. Hans Conrad will portray the famous night errand of its title. Come with us then back to the days when knighthood was in flower, The romantic, chivalrous days of Sir Walry Scott's unforgettable Ivanhoe.

The storm that rained that night around the Castle of Rutherford, the Castle of Cedric the Saxon, was no more tempestuous or violent than were the times. For England was a nation divided. Her arrogant, Norman conquerors rode roughshod over her proud and resentful Saxon people.

And her king, Richard the Lion-hearted, was captured in the far-off holy lands while his feared and hated brother Prince John occupied his throne. I, the storm that raged that night round the rugged battlements of the castle of Cedric, reflected well at impestuous temper of the times. But let me take you now, within