Family Theater: Mademoiselle Fifi

Family Theatre presents Joan Leslie and Wendell Corey. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre Incorporated presents Wendell Corey and Guy DeMoppison's Mademoiselle Fifi with Edgar barrier, Hans Conrad and Parley Bear.

We'll introduce the drama, Your Hostess, Joan Leslie. Thank you, Jean. The permanent place in literature of Guy DeMoppison was earned by a wide variety of tales and a shrewd understanding of all kinds of people.

Many of his most penetrating character studies have become classics because his dissection of human emotions is as real and revealing today as it was in the times in which he lived. One such tale is Medmoazel Fethi. Perhaps you will find a strong parallel in a much more recent conflict and occupation. The tale takes

place in a small town in northern France when Bismarck's armies were overrunning the French Empire. But let our narrator, Wendell Corey, tell it. Here in this French village I am called Pierre Boucher. But that was not always my name. It was only a few years ago that I was known as Peter Borgen, Sergeant Peter Borgen of the

Prussian Army. Here where I now live in peace and contentment, I once came armed with gun and bayonet to occupy and destroy. If that puzzles you, allow me please to explain. I was a very young man in the year that Bismarck ordered the Prussian armies into France. I lived on the borderline between the two countries. My family spoke both French and German. Some

members even lived in France. But I made a different choice. I thought to fight for Bismarck, You fight in a victorious army. No life could be more glorious, more courageous. I was, I said, a very young man.