Family Theater: The Cobbler's Window

Family Theatre presents Ralph Edwards and Otto Kruger. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents the Cobbler's Window, starring Otto Kruger. And now, here is your host, Ralph Edwards. Thank you, Tony Lefrano.

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.

Now to our transcribed drama, The Cobbler's Window, from Count Leo Tolstoy's Where Love Is, Their God Is Also, starring Otto Krueger as narrator and featuring Edgar barrier as Martin. Seldom as a man created two greater memorials to himself as did Count Leo Tolstoy in the the monumental war and peace and honor Karina. So large do these works loom in Tolstoy's name

that too often we forget the short stories which rank him as one of history's most prolific literary greats. While primarily a storyteller Tolstoy enhanced his tales and gave them a classic flavor by writing of those he knew well in his daily life. The nobility whose life he faithfully recorded both at the court in St. Petersburg, and the huge ancestral estates were familiar

to him as social contemporaries. And perhaps it's because his more themed works deal with life in the Russian courts that Tolstoy's own mode of life is often overlooked. For never was there a count who lived more simply and with more self-denial than he.

He gave up and gladly the privileges of rank and wealth is worth accorded him, and he developed sense of life in social service, and that sense of doing for others is the hallmark of his short stories. Now, mirroring this feeling of Tolstoy is the story we've selected for presentation tonight. It is with pleasure that we bring you the cobbler's window from