Family Theater: The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Family Theater presents Jeanette McDonald and Ward Bond. Today, well, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Ward Bond in Red Heart's classic, The Outcasts of Poker Flat. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Miss Jeanette McDonald.

Thank you, Charles Arlington. The purpose of Family Theater is to bring to your attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win the Peace for Ourselves, Peace for Our Families, and Peace for the World.

theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. Francis Bret Hart came to California when still a young man, and to earn a living engaged in a number of trades, finally finding his ditches a contemporary of Mark Twain in writing for newspapers and magazines. Hart's varied experiences and journeys, furnished inspiration and material

for his tales of the frontier, and at the time of the gold rush he was hailed as the new to the new prophet of American letters. Hearts' writings of the days of 49 became classics, not only in America but abroad, for his tales introduced characters and locales that were completely new.

It is with real pleasure that we present Warbond as O'Cherst and Howard Culver as Tom Simpson. In Bret Hart's The Outcasts of Poker Flat. My name's Tom Simpson.

Innocent Tom Simpson, they called me Well, a friend of mine gave me that name. I got a story I want to tell you about some people. Some people that I... That I love to heap.

I reckon you could say the whole thing started about a month ago. November 23rd, 1850. I'll never forget that date. I'm second tired of talk. Let's run the black sheep out of poker flat. John O'Curse won $1,000 from me over the poker table last night.