Family Theater: The Littlest Angel

Family Theater presents Loretta Gunn, from Hollywood, the mutual network, in cooperation with Family Theater presents Miss Loretta Gunn, in Charles Haswell's story of a small boy who became the Little Machine.

It's upon a time, all many, many years ago, as time is calculated by men, but which was merely yesterday in the celestial calendar of heaven?

There was in paradise a most miserable, thoroughly unhappy, and utterly dejected cherub, who was known throughout heaven as the Little Estane Show. He was exactly four years, six months, five days, seven hours, and forty-two minutes of age, when he presented his small self to the venerable gatekeeper and waited for admittance to the glorious kingdom of God.

Standing defiantly with his short, round legs wide apart, the littlest angel tried to pretend that he wasn't at all impressed by such an earthly splendor, and that he wasn't at all afraid. But his lower lip trembled, and a tear disgraced him by making a new furrow down his already tear-streaked face, coming to a precipitous halt at the very tip-in of his small freckled

nose. But that wasn't all. While the kindly gatekeeper was entering the name in his great book, the little as danger having left home as usual without a handkerchief, endeavoured to hide the telltale evidence by sniffling.

Oh, a most unangelic sound, which so unnerved the good gatekeeper that he did something he had never done before in all eternity. He blotted the page. And that moment on the heavenly peace was never quite the same.

And the little little danger soon became the despair of all the heavenly host. His shrill, earspillting whistle sounded at all hours through the golden streets, which startled the patriarch prophets and disturbed their medications. And on top of that, he inevitably sang off key at the singing practice of the heavenly choir, spoiling its ethereal effect, and being so small that it seemed to take him

From Hollywood Family Theater as presented Miss Loretta Young, who has told you the story of The Little Essentials by Charles Tazwa. Music and choral numbers were composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman, and the production was directed by High Middle Blythe.

Jeffrey Silver was heard as The Little Essentials and Ken Christie as The Understanding Eightens. The series of family theatre broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this type of program by the mutual network which has responded to this need and by the hundreds of stars of stage, screen and

radio who have so unselfishly given the bare time and talent to appear on our family theatre stage. To them and to you our humble thanks. This is Gene Baker inviting you to join us next week when your family theatre will present Hannah Bryan in Count Leo Tolsois Unforgathable, the Coppler's Window.