Family Theater: Burden on the Family
Family Theater · March 19, 1952 · 28 min · 4,278 words
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Family Theatre presents Gene and Kathleen Lockhart. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Burton and the Family, starring Gene and Kathleen Lockhart. 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 Theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our drama, Burden on the Family, starring Jean Lockhart as Captain 12 Trees, and Kathleen Lockhart as Judy.
I presume to label. I presumed as much. Why must they always build a poor house or a charity hospital in the slum? Well, maybe this wasn't the slums when they built it. It's your right, my dear, but it's almost as old as I am and almost as ready for the record.
Oh, please, Uncle Abel. If you'll take the case, I'll carry the radio. All right. You know if I had my way, you could stay with us forever. No, no, no. I learned a lot from some of the savages I've seen.
When one of the tribes grows too old to be of any further use, he's driven away from the campfire to die alone. No actual violence is committed, so the tribal conscience is cleared. Of course, if you have originally simply knock off the old folks on the head with the club.
Oh, please, Uncle Abel. Well, maybe the second way is more merciful. Now, what an inspiring building. The architect who designed that arch had more accuracy than imagination. City, home for incurable. Why didn't he make it abandoned, ho, poi, who enter here?
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