Family Theater: Old Judge Priest

Family Theater presents George Murphy, Ruth Hussey, Charlie Ruggles and Parley Bear. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater brings you George Murphy, Charlie Ruggles and Parley Bear in Urban S. Cobb's familiar classic, Old Judge Priest.

To introduce the drama, your hostess, Ruth Hussey. Thank you, Gene Baker. This is a story about Old Judge Priest and one of his many experiences with the more human side of everyday events that possibly most of us pass by too quickly as we hurry through our lives.

Irving S. Cobb conceived these stories, as he said in his own words, to equate the world with the fact that his fellow Kentuckians were just playing folk with whom we might find in Iowa or Indiana or any state in this great union.

Here with old Judge Priest, a man with his bigger feeling of compassion compassion for his fellow men as the girth around his stomach, and people day, whose counterpart we see all to seldom in the temple of our time. We're privileged to present Charlie Ruggles as people day, and Parley Bear is old Judge Priest, with George Murphy as your narrator.

Old Judge Priest puffed into his chambers at the courthouse, looking with his broad beam and his costume of flappy, loose white ducks, very much like an old-fashioned full rigor with all sales set. Placing his old cotton umbrella in the corner, he removed his coat and hung it on a peg behind the door. Sat down heavily at his desk where he gave attention to his mail.

There was a bill for five pounds of his favorite smoking tobacco. Notice of a lodge meeting and the bottom of the pile a long envelope addressed to him by his title instead of his name. In the The upper right hand corner were several British stamps.