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Family Theater: World Without End

Family Theater · May 21, 1952 · 28 min · 3,489 words

The transcript of “World Without End”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast May 21, 1952. 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 Theater presents Anne Blythe and Stephen McNally. The Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents World Without End, starring Anne Blythe. To introduce the drama, here is your host, Stephen McNally. Thank you, Tony Lefrano.

Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we get to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, yes and peace for the world.

Family theatre urges you to pray, pray together as a family, and now to our drama. World without end is perhaps the most unusual play as far as an actress is concerned of any ever presented by a family theatre.

During the next half hour you will hear Anne Blythe in not one but four distinct roles. as Mary, then later as Anna, as Kathleen and as Sarah. And now our curtain rises. The time late autumn of 1950.

The place, a small mountain large in the backwoods of Canada's Bebeck Province. Chris, it's starting to snow. Amazing. But it's snowing hard. Suppose we're snowing in here. Oh, perfect. If there's anything better than a one-month honeymoon, it's a three-month honeymoon.

Oh, and what about your job? Who cares about a job? Come here. I'm here. No, no, no. Down here by the fire. There. There, that's better. Hello, Mr. Jordan. Hi, Ms. Jordan. Sweet. We should think about the storm.

You think about it. We must get out by Wednesday. How else can you be back at work on time? I think of all the famous buildings just waiting to be designed by an architect named Christopher Jordan.

Oh, we'll get out. How? Oh, skis or snowshoes? Snowshoes, me? I don't know how. Well, then you'd better learn. You're a Canadian now, remember? I remember. Are you glad? Glad. Well, glad that I made that trip to New York and that Ellen Jensen invited us to the same party.

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