Family Theater: Blood Will Tell

Family Theater presents Dennis Day and Gene Evan. I'm Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Blood Will Tell starring Gene Evans. And now here's your host, Dennis Day.

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 ought 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 transcribed drama, Blood will tell, starring Jean Evans as Phil Jarrum. We had sat there in the waiting room of the Pennsylvania station for over an hour. Me and the tall well-dressed woman from Cincinnati.

If it had been a weekend, we wouldn't have had a prayer. But this was Wednesday afternoon, and only one out of every dozen or so passengers coming through the train gates was a service man.

So if pilot Edmund Winkler turned out to be one of them, chances were we'd spot him. Mr. Ciaran, would like to take a few minutes to get a bite to eat. No thanks, Mrs. Winkler.

Glad to get you something, though. No, I'm not hungry. Were you ever in the army? Quite a while ago. Did, erm... Did you mind being a soldier? Well, sometimes it depends on your outfit. If they're okay, the army's okay.

Maybe that's why your son went over the hill. Over the hill? Is that slang for desertion? Well, not exactly desertion. That means you don't ever expect to come back. Your boy's just AWOL, absent without leave.

Maybe you got a nose full of some non-comm who's been on his neck. No. That's what worries me. It ain't never had any difficulty getting along with people. It's something else. Did he ever run away from home when he was a boy?