Family Theater: Song for a Long Road

Family Theater presents Jeanette McDonald, Barry Sullivan and Marjorie Steele. From Hollywood, the mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater brings you Barry Sullivan and Marjorie Steele in song for a long road. Now here is our hostess Jeanette McDonald.

I don't think it's necessary to spell out Family Theater's purpose here today. I'm just going to say listen, just listen. For here are Barry Sullivan and Marjory Steele, starring in Song for Long Road, with Lamont Johnson as narrator.

This is the way the story should begin. Ellen, are you listening? Yes, I'm listening. Ellen, will you marry me? I most certainly will not. Aww, what a poet is made of stern stuff, and so we shall try once more.

This is the way the story should begin. Ellie, look at me. I'm lucky. Will you consent to be my wife? You're right. Certainly not. But how does the poet say it? If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Ellie, listen, please. I'm listening. Look at me. I'm looking. Will you... Would it be asking you too much to become Mrs. Joyce Kilmer? Well... This is the way the story should begin, and this is the way it did begin.

One beautiful day in June, 1908. For he said himself, Joyce Kilmer did. He said, you know, Elene, I cannot understand the interpretation which makes marriage the end instead of the beginning of a splendid adventure.

If they should ever be the perfect novel of love, it would begin rather than end, and they were happily married. And should I end? And they lived happily ever after. Well, now that would depend on ones interpreting.

Naturally, that would depend upon one's interpretation of happiness. For example, Eileen, are you happy? I was never happy with your choice. A quiet home here in New Jersey, a baby. Yes, I know, but hang it. I was never meant to spend the rest of my life teaching Latin to a bunch of high school students.