The Barretts Of Wimpole Street

Great scenes from great plays with your host Walter Handen and starring tonight Mr. Basil Rathbone in the Barats of Windpole Street. Each week at this same hour the Episcopal families of your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild invite you to share the dramatic inspiration of great scenes from great plays as transcribed by famous artists of stage screen and radio. And now here is

your host the distinguished actor-manager Mr. Walter Hamill. Thank you and good evening. Our great scenes for tonight come from a stirring play about truly great people. It is the love story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Rudolph Bessier is the Barrett's of Whimple Street and now it gives me great pleasure to introduce our guest star equally at home on radio, stage,

and screen. Mr. Basil Rathpul. Thank you, Walter Hamden, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Basil, you are one of the very first actors to offer your services to this new series, and for that it's a special pleasure to have you here.

I'm not only a member of the Episcopal Actors Guildwater, mine is also one of the Episcopal community families just mentioned. And may I say I followed this program from the beginning when you gave us again your great performance of Cyrano, and I found it just as said a half hour of dramatic inspiration.

That's why I'm delighted to be here to portray Robert Browning in the barrettes of Wimpold Street, Browning. A great English poet who felt that his poetic function was to coordinate God and his universe. I think his meeting with and his courtship of Elizabeth Barrett makes one of the most stirring love stories ever written. And we are also especially fortunate tonight in having Miss