Family Theater: Curtain Call for Genesius
Family Theater · September 17, 1952 · 29 min · 3,803 words
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Family Theater presents Tyrone Power, Billy Burke and Betty Lynn. From Hollywood, the mutual network and cooperation with Family Theater presents Curtain Call for Genesius, starring Tyrone Power and featuring Betty Lynn and Francis X Bushman.
To introduce the drama, here is your hostess, Billy Burke. Thank you, Tony Lefrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become as 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. Cotton called for Janisias, starring Tyrone Power as Janisias and featuring Betty Linus' flavor in Francis X Bushman as Emperor Dioclician. Stan Waxman and May Clark. We have all heard of great actors who literally lived their parts.
This is the story of an actor who died his, and in doing so, one of the tramp greater than all the applause of his contemporary theater. A celebrated name, the greatest classic comedian in the whole Roman Empire.
But as every showman knows, the public is unpredictable, and this was nowhere truer than in Rome. Genesius may might have died with him or before him, but for his last performance and first fiasco. It is the year 303 AD from Nicomedia, residents of the Emperor Diocletian, and Edict goes forth to the entire Roman world.
Whereas with great clemency we have up to now relaxed certain previously enacted measures against the contemptible sect of Christians, but whereas these Christians have shown their ingratitude by flouting the holy gods of Rome, be it enacted that any and all who followed the teaching of the so-called Christ will be brought to the prefecture, and upon refusing
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