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Family Theater: The Windbag

Family Theater · October 18, 1950 · 29 min · 4,128 words

The transcript of “The Windbag”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast October 18, 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 John Ford and Fibra McGee and Molly. Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Fibra McGee and Molly in the Windbag. To introduce the drama, your host, John Ford.

Thank you Tony Lefrano. Family Theater'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 theatre urges you to pray and pray together as a family.

Now our story tonight takes place in the little town of Clay Center, Kansas, where DJ Latimer and his good wife Martha are solid, substantial citizens. DJ owns a not too prosperous real estate and insurance business, is a farmer present of the local Rotter-Wanners Club and finds his principal release from the humdrum of

Small Town Life in the thrice weekly change ability, Rich's Theatre. Martha has long been content to be a housewife and a good one. Their only child, a daughter named Valesca, is married to Jimmy Merther, a young continuity writer on the staff of the nationwide broadcasting company in Chicago.

Jimmy and Goll have spent the Thanksgiving holidays with Mom and Dad and soon to return to the Windy City, this particular evening, the forest seated in the parlion, and Jimmy says to his father-in-law. DJ, how'd you like to do me a favor and make yourself some money besides?

What kind of a favor, my boy? Well, it's rather a complicated story. You've heard the Nationwide Theatre of the Year, haven't you? Tuesday night at nine? Frequently, in my opinion, an excellent program. We almost never miss it.

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