Family Theater: The Daughter in Law

Family Theatre presents Ricardo Montelban, Audrey Dalton and Euna Merkel. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents The Daughters Law, starring Euna Merkel and Audrey Dalton. Ricardo Montelban will be your host.

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 for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, The Daughter-in-Law, starring Yuna Merkel as Amy and Audrey Dalton as Beth. For eight years now, Amy and Bill Wheeler have had a daughter-in-law they've never seen, except in photographs and snapshots.

She's an English girl, their son Ted Merrade, while stationed with the Air Force in England. After a brief marriage of a month, Ted's plane was reported missing, and for months, even years, hopeful letters flew back and forth across the Atlantic between the wheelers and their daughter-in-law Beth.

But now, in the last few years, the letters have been almost as frequent, but Ted's name is seldom mentioned. It's a bright, sunny morning, Amy and Bill are at breakfast, and Amy is opening the mail.

Yeah, anything for me honey? There's the plumber's bill and the card from the filling station. Hmm, time to have the oil changed and cut. Oh, and here's a letter from your sister. I bet that kid of hers is in trouble again.

Well, all you can do is send us some more good advice. Poor Ronnie, he's really just mischief. Oh, Bill! A letter from Beth! Hmm. I wonder how she's getting along to some mother's death. Well, let me see what she says.