Family Theater: Masquerade

The following feature was transcribed earlier from Eastern Mutual. We win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world.

Family theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our drama, starring Barbara Hale as Janie, and John Howard as Dean in Masquerade. You've seen this girl a thousand times in Hollywood.

Maybe she was a car hop at a drive-in restaurant. Maybe she was selling perfume in a department store. Or maybe as in the case of Janie Saunders, she was a manicurist in one of those fashionable tansaui establishments, which catered only to a platinum-plated clean-tell.

Wherever she works, whatever her background, this girl is all with smiling, a pathetically eager sort of smile. No matter how tired she is, no matter how short-tempered she may feel, she somehow manages to achieve an aura of spring freshness.

after all, a girl never knows when the big moment may come, when the right producer, in just the proper frame of mind, may happen in. So the smile mustn't fade, the radiance mustn't dim until she gets home.

Their reality takes over. In the privacy of the cracker box apartment she shares with a friend, Janie can forget to smile, let a little of her tiredness, her inner desperation, show through. When the door closes it shuts out the potential Hollywood starlet and we see a tired girl from Strawberry Point, Iowa Home from another day of being nice to everyone

Home from another day when nothing happened She checks the phone pad no calls There's a letter postmark Strawberry Point, Iowa She picks it up with no eagerness. It's an expected thing and what Janie wants is the unexpected Hi, honey. Anything new?