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Family Theater: The Clown

Family Theater · November 29, 1950 · 28 min · 3,839 words

The transcript of “The Clown”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 29, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Family Theatre presents Deborah Padgett and Steven Dunn. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Steven Dunn in the Clown. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Deborah Padgett. Tony Lefrano, 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. Tonight, Family Theater takes great pleasure in presenting an original story based on the life of Dan Rice, the clown, starring Steven Dunn.

Did I know Dan Rice? Does the tale of a comic know its own star? Sure I knew him. Dan Rice, the greatest clown that ever lived. I followed him on the way up. And I followed him on the way down.

Me, Capy Flynn. We was both kids when we met. Dan was only eight, just run away from home. I was twelve, jocky, and for Colonel Stuntan. Dan loved horses. He started in as a stable boy, and within a year was the country's ace jocky.

Yeah, that's how our friendship started, and it grew through the years. Good years and bad ones. Till a dry spell when we were both working for beans in a little traveling carnival. Hurry, hurry, hurry, step right up folks and see the world's most talented, free-c Don't you like you swollen addiction area?

Oh, him? Well, that's Dan Rice. Oh, Dan Rice! I can do just about anything. Sing, dance, recite, shake, and feel like a play actor. But don't play cars with him! Oh, sharpie! He's the handsome one?

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