Family Theater: Heritage of Home

The theatre presents Loretta Young in Heritage of Home. From Hollywood, the mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Heritage of Home, starring Loretta Young. This is Family Theatre's fifth anniversary, the beginning of its sixth year of broadcasting in the interest of family life in America.

Since its inaugural broadcast, February the 13th, 1947, more than 300 stars of Hollywood Hollywood and New York have appeared on 273 Family Theater programs to further the cause of family unity in the countries where family theater is heard.

Now for our special anniversary broadcast dedicated to the homes of America, heritage of homes. And to act as narrator, one of Family Theater's very special friends who appeared on our first broadcast and has appeared 16 times since then, Miss Loretta Young.

You've probably heard these words. In love of home the love of country had its rise. They were written by Charles Dickens and Englishman. But I think they have particular meaning to Americans because to us it seems impossible to separate the two.

Love of home and love of country. For the very forming of our nation we have made a bond between home and country that will not suffer a separation. We have taken the resources of America and made them into a way of life that pivots on the home.

We have built a giant with a skeleton and muscles, not a bone and fiber, but an iron and steel from Pittsburgh, Fontana and Gary. We've given this giant's arteries of rails and veins of superhighways, and we force the blood of industry and commerce to flow through them.

His body protein is represented by a billion head of livestock on the hook, and his carbohydrates fill the numberless acres of cultivated fields across our nation. We have endowed this giant with a nervous system of Arizona copper to carry impulses at telephonic speeds over any distance and for any reason.