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Family Theater: At 155 Pounds

Family Theater · November 10, 1954 · 29 min · 4,878 words

The transcript of “At 155 Pounds”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 10, 1954. 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 Theatre presents Barbara Hale and Michael O'Shea. The world, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents at 155 pounds, starring Michael O'Shea. And now here is your hostess, Barbara Hale.

Thank you, Tony Lefrano. Family Theatre'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 with 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 transcribed drama entitled, at 155 pounds, starring Michael O'Shea as Ben Rocco. You're running through a lot of very interesting, you might even say peculiar people.

And you hear stories, an awful lot of stories. It's what you might call part of the job. People bring their troubles to a bar. And a lot of them want to talk. I listen. I heard you didn't want to talk.

Okay, hit me a little strange at face too, cause he sure looked like a guy with a problem. Come in wearing a long face and he climbs up on a stool and then he registers.

Right away I sizes him up for a guy who's gonna try drinking his troubles away. So what is the order? Give me a ginger ale. Ginger ale? Yeah, ginger ale, nothin' in it, just ginger ale.

Well, what happens once in a while, I fix them as ginger ale and they went on about my business. Long about midnight they'd join up these out. But, by jul he stays right there. He was wakin' on his fifth ginger ale and just staring at the bottles behind the bar.

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