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Family Theater: Queen of the Angels

Family Theater · September 21, 1949 · 28 min · 3,869 words

The transcript of “Queen of the Angels”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast September 21, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Family Theater presents Leo Corillio, Robert Bailey, and Eugene Biscolous. But the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated transcribes a salute to the City of Los Angeles on her 168th birthday. Starring Leo Corillio and Robert Bailey, we bring you Queen of the Angels to introduce the drama, your host, Sheriff Eugene Biscolous.

A city is many things to many men. To some it is only an animate concrete and wooden steel laid out in geometric patterns on a piece of land. To others it's a fluid, ever-changing place of terror.

It streets a miasmic, fear-filled trails of some awesome jungle. To still other men, the city is a happy, gay, and carefree place where one may live with other men under the sunny skies of peace and contentment.

Yes, a city is many things to many men. But a city is more than these things, for its life is partaken of the lives and deaths of the humans who have dwelled in it, to share their fears and their hopes and their dreams and their prayers.

And its immortal soul, like theirs, must be founded on faith, faith in the goodness of mankind. Faith in one's God. Tonight we bring you the story of a city, Leo Carillo as a Padre and Robert Bailey as Jim are the stars who will tell it to you. Listen as they bring you the story of the Queen of the Angels, the story of the city known as

Los Angeles. Out of the muck and the mire of the muddy river bottom, up from the tinder-dry brown hills, out of pain and time, sun-baked valley and holy dreams, out of cactus patch and selfless devotion to God, was born a city at Wevelo de Nuestra Senora Larena de Los Angales de Porciunkala, the city of Our Lady, the queen of the angels of the Porciunkala

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