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Family Theater: Captive Audience

Family Theater · November 30, 1955 · 29 min · 4,771 words

The transcript of “Captive Audience”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 30, 1955. 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 Theatre presents Audrey Tutter and Claude Aiken. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Captive Audience starring Audrey Tutter. And now here is your host, Claude Aiken's. Thank you, Tony LaFrau. 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'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. Now to our transcribed drama, Captive Audience starring Audrey Tutter as Irene. I graciously as Irene one day I looked out my window and there was one of my hounds chasing a rabbit.

And they were both walking. And the potato crop. I want to tell you about that. Some of them were as big as peas, as big as marbles, and then there was an awful lot of little on the kind of all of the heat.

You know the way sickness can follow a drought? Well, we was trying to beat it. I bought one of them sanitary drinking cups, and I made everybody on the plantation use it. But you know we all got sick anyway?

Yes, sir. But you know there ain't nothing so bad you can't get a little good out of it. At least all during the drought we didn't have a bit of trouble getting salt out of the shakers.

That's right. Come on, now, Colonel. You can do better than that. Oh, I don't know. That was pretty good. Well, now you'll have to admit, Miss Irene. I was doing better earlier in the evening.

Didn't have a bit of trouble getting salt out of the shakers now, really. Well, Miss, I mean, some of these stories I haven't even thought about since. I'd hate to tell you how many years.

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