Family Theater: Song for a Long Road
Family Theater · May 16, 1956 · 28 min · 3,186 words
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Family Theater presents, McDonald Carry. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents, Songs for a Long Road. And now, here is your star and host, McDonald Carry. Thank you, Tony LaFrano.
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're 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, Song for a Long Road starring McDonald Carey as Joyce Kilmer. This is the way the story should begin.
Clean. Are you listening? Yes, I'm listening. Clean. Will you marry me? I most certainly will. Not. All but a poet is made of stern stuff. And so we shall try once more. This is the way the story should begin.
Clean. Look at me. I'm looking. Will you consent to be my wife? Your wife? Certainly. Not. But how does the poet say it? If at first you don't succeed, try again. Alene, listen please.
I'm listening. Look at me. I'm looking. What are you? Would it be asking you too much to become Mrs. Joyce Kilmer? Well... This is the way the story should begin. And this is the way it did begin.
One beautiful day in June, 1908. For he said himself, Joyce Kilmer did. He said, can only, I can understand the interpretation which makes marriage the end instead of the beginning of a splendid adventure. If there should ever be the perfect novel of love, it would begin rather than end, and they were happily married.
And should I add, and they lived happily ever after? Well now, that would depend upon what's at your hand. Not surely. That would depend upon what is interpretation of happiness. For example, Lean, you happy?
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