Family Theater: The Triumphant Exile
Family Theater · July 12, 1950 · 28 min · 4,121 words
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Family Theatre presents Patricia Neal, Jean Kagnie and Glenn Langen. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Jean Kagnie and Glenn Langen in the triumphant exile. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Patricia Neal.
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.
When told he was a genius, Robert Louis Stevenson said, what genius I have is for work. This is true in part, for he spent his entire life learning to write better. But I think there's also genius in the fact that he never lost the vision of his childhood.
Else how could he have written the stories you and I have thrilled to when we pretended to be pirates digging for buried treasure, or kidnapped by wicked old uncles and forced to sail in ships on the high seas. These are the stories that will live forever, but so will the beloved Scotch author who wrote them.
Family Theatre takes pride in presenting Glenn Langen and Stevenson, Jean Cagney as Fanny Osborne and Carlton Young as Lloyd Osborne, who tells the story of the triumphant exile, story of Robert Louis Stevenson. High upon a mountain top looking away to the sea is a grave beside a grave.
In the distance is heard the roar of the surf and the wind blows. The climb is steep and it would be unlike most visitors to the island of Samoa to make the climb. But now as I sit here upon the summit my thoughts are of this man whose grave I face and of the woman who sleeps beside him.
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