Family Theater: The Professor Was a Cheat
Family Theater · September 26, 1951 · 28 min · 4,575 words
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Family Theater presents The Professor Was A Cheat. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents The Professor Was A Cheat. Starring Jean Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Susan Morrow, and Stephen Dunne. Now to our drama, The Professor Was A Cheat.
Starring Jean Lockhart as Professor Dunbar, Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Worth, Stephen Dunne as Phil, and Susan Morrow as Carol. Professor Dunbar, that statement is not true. I'm obliged to agree with you, Mr. Wilson. Then, sir, you admit I hardly think my statement prior to interruption calls for admission of anything on my part, nor was anything more than a minority opinion.
I merely said that there's some doubt that William Shakespeare ever existed, and I was about to say it's believed in some circles that the name William Shakespeare is pseudonymous, Numb Dipluminus or Mr. Wilson a pen name.
Sorry sir, I didn't understand. Dumb nut cord, non-intelligent. Now, we were discussing Act 5, scene 3 of Macbeth, in which the Bard hints at Slaco analysis as, yes, Miss Henshaw, what is it? Professor, do you suppose there's any truth to the room with that?
William Shakespeare was really the pen name used by Ben Johnson. That's an interesting point, Miss Henshaw. Many hold to that opinion, but it seems hardly likely since Shakespeare died in 1916-16, while Johnson lived till 1637.
And two, between those years, Johnson spent a great deal of his time as the Bard's eulogist. Now, Miss Henshaw, would you put aside a successful pseudonym in favour of eulogising a man who never existed?
I thought so. Professor. Ah, now we hear from Mrs. Wilson. Sir, how could such a rumour get started if it had no basis of fact? Oh, perhaps started by Johnson himself on the correct theory that any lie told well enough will be believed.
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