Family Theater: Crossroads of Christmas
Family Theater · December 17, 1952 · 24 min · 3,758 words
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Family Theatre presents Irene Dunn, Victor Jory and Rita Johnson. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Crossroads of Christmas, starring Victor Jory and Rita Johnson. To introduce the drama, here is your hostess Irene Dunn.
Thank you, thank you, Joy Lefrano. A 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 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, The Crossroads of Christmas, starring Victor Jory as Matthew and Rita Johnson as Sarah. The time was dark and troubled. The heel of the oppressive ground into a prostrate and captive world. Injustice and favoritism sat in high places, while fear and despair were the daily fair of the unhappy millions. Hope was a luxury to die to all, except fools
and children. Faith was a starvling in a famished world, and love was yet to be born. But hate was active, and rebellion bit and little displays of violence, as when a stone is hurled from a solemn crowd into a line of soldiers.
Don't let that boy get away, stop him! He threw the stone, clear the way, clear the way! I took it around, break my way through. Sir, 20 minutes to be the path, sir. Take a detail, carry him back to work orders.
Yes, sir. Did the attacker escape, sir? All the moment. Quiet! I suppose you're all congratulating yourselves that an officer of the Empire has been struck down. Let me tell you that your breezy satisfaction is premature.
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