The Farmer Takes a Wife

Great scenes from great plays with your host, Walker Henden, and co-starring tonight, Eddie Albert and Margot in The Farmer Takes a White. On behalf of the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church and 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.

Now I present your host, the distinguished actor-manager, Mr. Walter Handel. Thank you and good evening. Our play tonight, The Farmer Takes a Wife by Frank B. Elzer and Mark Connolly, is based on a novel by Walter D. Edmonds.

It is laid in that almost forgotten chapter of America's past when the Eerie Canal was the throbbing main artery of the nation's commerce. Our characters are the robust, spirited boaters, whose horse and mule-drawn barges think the Atlantic seaboard with the pioneer west.

Here to play the roles of Dan Harrow and Molly Larkins, I am pleased to present the two screen favorites, Eddie Albert and Margot. And now let's raise the curtain on the farmer takes a wife, adapted for radio by Elizabeth Hart.

is April 1835, the place Rome, New York. Tomorrow the Erie Canal reopens for another season, and this evening some of the folk captains are celebrating this most important of yearly events in the caverns along the Topoc.

Forget it, I never sell What a terrible storm we had one night! For some time now, their women folk have been calling them back to their boats and their suppers. But the summons have gone unheeded, and one by one the women have given up.

Only Molly Larkin still stands on deck, blowing determinately in the direction of a taproom just across the towpath from where her boats tied up. Excuse me ma'am. You gave me a turn. Well, you were so busy blowing that horn, I couldn't get you to notice me.