The Devil And Daniel Webster

Great Seems from Great Plays with your host Walter Handen and starring tonight Mr. Raymond Massey in the devil and Daniel Webster. On behalf of the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church in your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild, we welcome you to another half hour of Great Seems from Great Plays, transcribed by famous artists of stage, screen and radio.

Now I present your host, the distinguished actor-manager, Mr. Walter Ham. Thank you and good evening. Tonight we offer you a dramatization of Stephen Vincent Benet's famous story, The Devil and Daniel Webster. Webster was an orator of gigantic reputation.

His senatorial debates with Henry Clay are a thundering chapter in our history. But in this evening's play, we find the great man involved in an uncanny debate of a far different order. And I am privileged to present as our guest tonight the distinguished staff stage and screen, Mr Raymond Massey.

Thank you very much, Walter. As a member of the Episcopal Actors Guild, I am happy to be here. This is an appealing story, a poignant study in the American art of nebuliness. Yes, Ray, and that nebuliness you speak of.

not a lost art as some insist, is it? Not even in our complicated world today. Well, perhaps tonight's play will help us to remember that. So let us raise the curtain now on the devil and Daniel Webster adapted for radio by Philo Higley and starring Raymond Massey as Daniel Webster.

J.B. Stone was a prosperous young farmer in New Hampshire. A hundred years ago tonight, there was festivity and dancing in the great main room with his fine new farmhouse, where J.B.S.S.A.R.D. are just married, pretty Mary Squire.