Family Theater: The 51st Dragon

Family Theatre presents Jane Wyatt and Charles Davis. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Charles Davis in Haywood Broons Classic, the 51st Dragon, who introduced the drama, Your Hostess, Jane Wyatt.

Thank you, Jean Baker. Self-confidence is a priceless gift. Unfortunately, we're not all born with just the right amount. Some people are blessed with an overabundance of this rare virtue and almost all of us possess it in some degree.

However, the hero of Hayward Broom's story, poor Gawain La Keirhardi, had none at all. All he had muscles of plenty, and while he wasn't exactly bright, he wasn't stupid either. He just didn't have any self-confidence.

On the other hand, Hayward Broom, the author of our story, was considered one of the few men with no inhibitions whatsoever. His one great weakness was his inability to retain information. He knew everything he heard was passed on to the world, usually in the form of delightful short stories colored with his wise philosophizing.

Perhaps that's why he's regarded as one of the best loved figures of American journalism. Family Theatre, through the cooperation of the Hayward Bruner State, has found a perfect example of his tongue-in-cheek writing in The Fifty-First Dragon, starring Charles Davis.

In the days before the Flower of Night Hood withered on the byme, the forests and hills of England were fairly overrun with dragons. Not the charming bashful kind of dragon, but the huffing, puffing, blowtorch type that specializes in roast peasant for breakfast, lunch, and of course dinner. You might think that with so many night errands clanking around that the

dragon population would be pretty scarce. But such was not the case. One just didn't rush out and knock off a couple of dragons before breakfast. A dragon exterminating knight had to take a very special course in the Academy of Light Aerodry.