Family Theater: Della

Family Theatre presents Wendell Corey and Betty Lynn. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Della, starring Wendell Corey. Now to introduce the drama, here is your hostess, Betty Lynn. Thank you, Larry Chadderton. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives

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 drama, Della, starring Windle Corry as a narrator.

When people describe Manhattan as the most fabulous city in the world, they are usually referring to its towering buildings, its innumerable shops, the glamour of its theatres. Well, that's all very true. But there are other things that make it just as fabulous.

And those are the strange things that happen now and then to people who live here. Our story tonight is about one of those people. A man. A strange thing that happened to him and changed his whole life.

A man. Just an ordinary looking man. Much like hundreds you pass on the street every day speaks. You see any of the bums who sleep in the flop houses down in the bar, he ragged, closed, stained, and streaked with gutter mud and dirty, silly, filthy, half-inch whiskers, matted hair, blurry eyes.

A few years ago, I was a bums. And I hated everybody. Those who gave me money even more than those who didn't. I knew what they were thinking. I'd never seen a more disgusting sight.

I blamed them for my condition. Maybe I was waiting for them to make a respectable citizen out of me. That's what I wanted to tell you about. About what did happen to give me a new star.