Family Theater: King O'Toole and Saint Kevin

Family Theatre presents Barbara Britain, Barry Fitzgerald and Dan O'Hurloughhey. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre Incorporated brings you Barry Fitzgerald and Dan O'Hurloughhey in the old Irish legend, King O'Toole and Saint Kevin.

To introduce the story, your hostess, Miss Barbara Brittany. Thank you, Jean Baker. It is often true that artists who reach the heights in one field find their talents adaptable to nearly equal success in others.

Such a man was the Dublin Irishman Samuel Lover. With little actual schooling in painting, Samuel Lover possessed the native talent that enabled him to support himself in relative comfort until 1833 when he celebrated his 36th birthday.

Then he turned his painting, his pictures, on paper, Rather than canvas, he used words rather than oils. Shortly thereafter, he became one of the founders of the world-famous Dublin University magazine to which he contributed tales of Irish folklore.

From these short tales, he branched out into longer pieces until his works included four novels and many plays. Our tale tonight is taken from his earlier writings and first appeared in a collection of legend and stories of early Aaron.

And now it is my pleasure to present Barifits Gerald as King O'Toole and down O'Hurlahy as Joe Irwin in a radio adaptation of Samuel Lovers, King O'Toole and St. Kevin, a legend of Blenderlock. The only beauty of the Valley of Blenderlock has made it for centuries, a haven to which people of the British Isles have come to repair their flagging spirits that they may return

to winning a living in less pleasant climates. Its beauty is perhaps enhanced by the mystical tales that concern its every book and tree. At any rate, it lives in yet a new dimension when one sees it with the aid of the guides who make their living recalling the glories of its past.