Young Mr Lincoln

Great scenes from great plays with your host Walter Handen and starring tonight Mr. Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln. 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 scenes from great plays transcribed by famous

artists of stage screen and radio. And now your host, the distinguished actor-manager, Mr. Walter Hampton. Good evening. Our play tonight is memorable for its portrayal of one of our greatest men in his youth. It's called Young Mr. Lincoln.

Now, though he's already tall and well-known, out into the knowy, in tonight's story Abraham Lincoln has not yet cast his long historic shadow on our land. He's just young Lincoln. And our play deals with just one episode in his life, an episode which is an inspiring illustration of his greatness.

And here to portray this man for us is the distinguished star of the current Broadway hit, Mr. Roberts. I'm pleased to have you meet Mr. Henry Fonda. Thank you very much, Mr. Hamden. You know, we sort of always think of Lincoln as a sorrowful man of history.

You forget about Abe, the young fellow full of sass, country humor and homely beginnings, his downright plainness for one to kind of twinkling honesty in already that sense of justice burning inside him. That's what this story shows.

That's the Springfield Lincoln that came to be America's Lincoln. Yes, Henry, our play shows the greatness born of humility. So let us raise the curtain now on Young Mr. Lincoln, adapted for radio by Alan Sloan, and starring Henry Fonda.

of Springfield in Illinois back in America's youngest days. It's like most small towns of the time. A public square formed by a courthouse and church, store and tavern, bank and blacksmithy. Plain glad people on the wooden sidewalks, the gentry and smart carriages on dirt roads.