Family Theater: Reprisal

Family Theater presents Anne Blithe and Rita Johnson. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Reprisals starring Rita Johnson. And now here is your hostess Anne Blithe. Thank you Tony Lefrano.

Family Theater'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. Now to our transcribed drama, reprisal starring Rita Johnson as Louisa. I did not know at first that I was being followed. I had just come down the steep street that ends opposite Stefan's plots.

It had snowed heavily that day and the streets were deserted. Just as I passed the end of the Kirtner Strasse, a truckload of soldiers turned the corner. I instinctively drew back into the shadows. Even though it was still an hour until curfew and my papers were in order, there would be questions if I was seen.

There were always questions for anyone found on the streets after dark. The stuck open, the truck lumbered across the plots and disappeared among the snow-covered trees of the Folska. I waited a full minute before starting again, just as I turned the corner by the opera house and began up the velastrussing.

I heard the firm and the trend of a man walking behind me. I could not bring myself to look around, even though I knew that in the darkness I would unable to make out his features. For that matter his face was unimportant. This was Austria 1944 and whoever prowled the streets at night was part of the desperate failing regime that had