A Doll's House

Great scenes from great plays. Tonight starring Ingrid Bergman and Brian Ahern, named, Adult House by Henry Gibson. On behalf of the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church in your community and the Episcopal Actors Guild, welcome to a transcribed radio version of the world famous Ingrid Bergman as Nora.

and the sort of out with distinguished actor Mr. Brian Ahern. Now here's your host, the celebrated actor manager, Mr. Walter Handen. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play is one of the enduring classics of dramatic literature.

The written 70 odd years ago, its theme has never been more fresh and vital than it is today. The year is in the 1870s, Time when almost all rights, personal and political were bested in the mail.

And the female had to conform in order to hold the precarious place in a world which he had only an indirect part in shaping. The action is in Oslo, Norway, the scene, a living room of a comfortable apartment.

A joining is a study, private domain of the man of the house, Torvald Helver, who's just an appointed manager of a bank, his actual assumption of the post being now only a matter of days. As always when the study is occupied, its door is tightly shut.

Torvail? Torvail dear? This is Nora Helmer, for eight years a devoted wife, typical of her day, when a man accepted the woman's love as nothing more than his Jew, and she took his as nothing less than an article of faith in the marriage institution. But Nora has made her marriage work and she's the

mother of three fine children. It's Christmas Eve, mid-afternoon. You have to disturb you, Tarv. What could you come into the living room one minute? Well, little squirrel, feel like cattering of it. Something so important, it can't wait.