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Family Theater: God and the a Scooter

Family Theater · March 4, 1953 · 24 min · 3,024 words

The transcript of “God and the a Scooter”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast March 4, 1953. 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 Jeanette McDonald, Jean Raymond and Rod O'Connor. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Transcribe, God and a Red Scooter starring Jean Raymond and Rod O'Connor. To introduce the drama, here is your hostess Jeanette McDonald.

To Tony Lefrano. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice must become an important part of our lives if we are to 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, God and a Red Scooter, starring Jean Raymond as Ed and Rada O'Connor as the narrator. Sleep is beautiful.

Sleep is a soft hand smoothing the frowns and frets on the tired faces of men. Sleep is a mother hand rocking the cradle of the world, rocking it softly, rocking men and women and all the little children to sweet silence and peace.

That's what sleep is. And do you want to know something? I pity the man who does not know how to sleep. Consider little Eddie. I love children like Eddie. Eddie knows how to sleep. Before he went to bed tonight, he was having a talk all by himself down there in the garden.

This is the way he spoke this afternoon. And you know what I said, God? Know what I said to Daddy? I said, God, did you hear me? That's what I said. And God, remember when I said, please give me a red scooter like Stevie and Tony Scott?

Remember when I said that? About the scooter? Didn't you hear me, God? Didn't you? See what I mean? See why I love little children like Eddie? He wanted a red scooter. He went to sleep dreaming of a red scooter. Did he get the scooter? Well I should have to tell you the whole story. In a manner of speaking the story

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