Family Theater: Railroad and Churchyard

Family Theater presents Arlene Dahl and Wendell Corey. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater brings you Wendell Corey with Ted Dicosia and Bill Johnstone in Railroad and Church Art. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Arlene Dahl.

Thank you, Jean. There are many things that go into the making of a great writer. His ability at characterization, the dramatic impact of his narrative style, and above all, his ability to create a story of lasting universal meaning.

All of these attributes and more went into the writings of Bjorn Stern Bjornsson. As a chief novelist, the leading poet, and one of the greatest dramatists of Norway, it is little wonder that Bjornsson received the Nobel Prize for literature.

It is also little wonder that we are pleased tonight to bring you his railroad and churchyard. And our narrator for this evening, Mr. Wendell Kory. It was a wonderful thing, the friendship between Nudh Akhre and Lars Horkstah.

Everyone in the village said so. Almost like father and son they said, even though small Twinkle-eyed Nudh was but little older than big serious Lars. And it all came about because Nudh Akhre, like his father and grandfather before him, had devoted all his life to the welfare of the village.

Yes, the village would not have been half the place that it was if we're not for Nude. Why, anyone would tell you. Nude, Akra? Right. We never would have had the farms we do if it hadn't been for Nude.

He started an agricultural school for us to learn him. Our children can bless Nude Akra for their education. Did he who founded the library and started our school? Children? More than children got their schooling from him.