Family Theater: My Terminal Moraine

Family Theatre presents Alan Young and Patricia Neal. Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre Incorporated brings you Alan Young in Frank Stockton's My Terminal Morey to introduce our story, Your Hostess, Patricia Neal. Thank you, Jean.

Perhaps one of the most delightful pens that ever put words on paper belonged to a man whose name was Frank R Stockton. His short stories and novels had the late 19th century United States laughing and chuckling from coast to coast.

While his best-known work is undoubtedly The Lady or the Tiger, the story we're going to present tonight titled My Terminal More Rain is much more representative of the man and his wonderfully unbelievable, believable characters and his sheer heartwarming whimsy and humor.

Our star, Alan Young, will appear as the unforgettable hero, Walter Cuthbert. In Frank R Stockton's unforgettable novelt, my terminal moorain. Well, I was certainly the unluckiest man in the world. Really unlucky. Imagine the situation I was in.

Twenty-eight years of age and single. I owned a large house and forty acres of land free and clear. I had a small independent income and my days were so filled with hunting and fishing that there was no time left in which to work.

Yes, I was undoubtedly the unluckiest man in the world. You see, it was my new neighbors who bought the 700 acres next to mine, but let me tell you how I met them and you'll soon understand what I mean.

One lovely spring day I was wandering near the fence line of our property is deeply engrossed in thought when my mental serobrations were interrupted. Hello there. Oh, oh, why hello. You're Mr. Walter Cuthbert, are you not?