A Tale Of Two Cities

Great scenes from great plays with your host Walter Handen and starring tonight Brian Ahern in A Tale of Two Cities. Each week at this same hour the Episcopal families of your own community and the Episcopal Actures 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 Ham. Thank you, and good evening. Few famous events have inspired so many great stories as the French Revolution of 1793. Its lofty idealism caught forever in the words liberty, equality, fraternity, and its terrible cruelty, symbolized by the slaughter of the guillotine, have both illuminated a background

of heroism and violence for stories of perpetual meaning. One such it is my privilege to present you tonight, a play based on the novel by that most beloved of all novelists, Charles Dickens, the story A Tale of Two Cities, and here to play the unforgettable role of Sidney Cotton, it is my pleasure to present the internationally

popular star, Mr. Brianner Hearn. Thank you, and I am happy to take part in your presentation of A Tale of Two Cities, for it is a story of great strength and great emotional appeal. Yes, Brian, and we are looking forward to your portrayal of the immortal Sydney Cotton.

So let us raise the curtain now on A Tale of Two Cities. Our Tale of Two Cities, London and Paris, begins in the year 1783. In London's famous criminal court, Old Bailey, A young Frenchman named Charles Darnay is facing a charge of being a spy for France.

One of the witnesses is being questioned by Sidney Carton, counsel for the prisoner. And now, Doctor Manette, on the night in question, you say that you were reunited with your daughter, Lucy Manette. Yes, I had not seen her since she was a child.