Family Theater: Courtship of Miles Standish

Family Theater presents Colleen Townsend and Tom Tully. From Hollywood and the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you Raymond Burr, John Dainer and Virginia Gregg in the courtship of mild standards, with Tom Tully as narrator.

To introduce the drama, your hostess Colleen Townsend. Tomorrow, we here in the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The day we have traditionally set aside for over three hundred years to give thanks for the blessings of the twelve months past.

We all have much to be thankful for. We have friends and loved ones, and the great heritage of a nation where freedom and liberty are not mere words, but are living actualities. We on Family Theater are going to bring you the most famous of all stories concerning the men and the women who first brought that heritage of freedom to these shores.

the men and the women who were the first to celebrate this day of Thanksgiving. Now Tom Tully will tell you the story of our Pilgrim Fathers, with Raymond Burr as the brave and rugged captain.

John Dana is his young poet friend, and Virginia Gregg is the beautiful young maiden. We bring you Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic poem of Plymouth, The Courtship of Miles Standish. In the old colony days in Plymouth, the land of the pilgrims, two and a row in a room of of his simple and primitive dwelling strolled with marshal air,

mild standish, the Puritan captain. Buried in thought he seemed, with his hands behind him, then long at the window he stood and wistfully, he gazed at the landscape. And over his countenance flitted a shadow, like those cast by the afternoon sun on the forest and on the hills.