Family Theater: The Prisoner of Zenda

Family Theatre presents Betty Lynn, Jean Raymond and Mary Anderson. The Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Jean Raymond and Mary Anderson in the Prisoner of Zendre.

To introduce the drama, your hostess, Betty Lynn. Thank you, Jean Baker. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. Through every warm blooded lover of fictional adventure, Anthony hopes the prisoner of Zenda ranks high. The cart of Ruritania, the villainy of Black Michael, the dark forest of Zenda, and the unforgettable beauty of Princess Flavia, also when before us in the smoke that swirls

from the pipe of the man who lived this adventure. But let Jean Raymond tell you of the prisoner of Zenda. My name is Rudolf Rassendil. My position in life is an enviable one. I'm a gentleman of leisure.

And my social position is comfortable. I enjoy all the honors due to the brother of Lord Berleston, head of the British Foreign Office. Many times he's offered me a poster's ambassador to this or that European court.

But though my brother will never know why, the idea of being ambassador does not battle me. For I have been a king. You see, I've been told that writing suits a lazy man, so I set out upon a journey through the kingdoms of Central Europe, pausing here and there to make notes on the inhabitants,

scenery and local customs. Now, several kingdoms had not been included in my itinerary. One of these was Rurotania, but nothing ever happens in Rurotania. However, rather than wait for my train, which had been delayed in parva to the north, I took the first available passage.