Little Women

Great scenes from great plays with your host Walter Handen and starring tonight Miss Joan Colfield in Little Women. Each week at this time 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 Hamden. Thank you and good evening. One of the most beloved stories in all our literature is Louisa Mayorkot's Little Women, and with good reason I believe, for though our homes today may be very different from the March family home in the story, still the laughter, the happy

moments and the sad ones in the lives of Meg, Joe, Beth and Amy are mirrors of youth the world over. Tonight we are honored to have in the role of the fourth right impetuous Joe who wants to play big brother to her sisters and keep the family together the delightful young star of stage and screen Miss Joan Colfield.

Thank you Mr. Handen and because I've always wanted to play Joe ever since I first read about her little women I'm especially pleased about being with you in tonight's play. I I hope it will bring back for everyone listening.

The same happy memories Joel brings to me. I'm sure it will, Joan. And we're also happy to have with us tonight Betty Colfield as Amy. And Stefan Schnabel as Professor Bear. So let us raise the curtain now on Little Women.

The March family house is big and old and somewhat shabby. And it rests in a dignified, if first likely lopsided position, well back from the trey shaded street in a small New England town. When we first meet the March Girl, it's a Christmas Eve in the early 1860s.