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Family Theater: Joppe, the Juggler

Family Theater · December 20, 1950 · 28 min · 4,152 words

The transcript of “Joppe, the Juggler”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast December 20, 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 Theater presents Spencer Tracy and Wallace Ford. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater brings you Jopie the Juggler with Wallace Ford as Jopie. To introduce the drama, your host Spencer Tracy.

Thank you Tony Lefrano. Family Theater's 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 Juppy the Juggler, starring Wallace Ford as Juppy. LaBelle France was rising swiftly in the world. Louis XI, the Spider King, was spinning the final strands of his whip.

He had defeated Charles the Bold, had absorbed Burgundy, Arjou, Ma, and Provence. The power of France was consolidated, all of which meant nothing to weary Jopie the Juggler and his darling Blanche Flair as they stirred the dust of a lonely road through Long Doc.

An odd pair, they, Jopie his face wrinkled and pale as a faded apricot under a thatch of unruly white air. His long ragged cloak, stained and patched in many places, flapping about his bony shanks encased in mildew green hose.

Tenderly, he patted his companion's neck. Blanche Flair looked at him with large affectionate brown eyes. Her long, pink ears trembled momentarily. Blanche Flair had reason to be grateful. Chappie, with generous consideration for her years, was walking by her side.

As mules go, Blanche Flair had lived beyond her pride. And it was on this day that they came to a crossroads their journey and a signpost which pointed to mezzame. Mezzame? Have we ever been to mezzame mappetite?

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