Mother

The makers of Hallmark reading cards bring you Linda Donnell in Kathleen Norris's great novel mother on the Hallmark Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars and outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors They distinguish novelist mr. James Hilton Ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse

we present a story which has not only proved extremely popular since its first publication, but is particularly appropriate to the anniversary we celebrate this coming Sunday. Kathleen Norris' novel Mother, as its title informs us about her simply as a title can, is a warm-hearted glorification of that human relationship which is so close to us all the year

around, but which on the second Sunday in May each year we bring, as it were, into special focus. There are few writers who do this sort of thing better than Kathleen Norris, who wrote many, many popular novels, of which the one we've chosen for tonight seems to have been the best seller of them all.

We're additionally lucky tonight to have us our star that delightful Hollywood actress Linda Darnell. Our hallmark playhouse starring Linda Darnell in Kathleen Norris' novel Mother. With the complaints of the old, the furniture was cheap.

Grown shabby within years the smell of cooking clung to it The second pageant children and their father and mother lived in the house Margaret was the oldest She hated the house and hated it for quite a long time Well, you sit here by me Becky until the children need for school then you and I'll give the baby a bath

rain That means the classroom will be full of wet clothes and the stove won't work and the school yard will be full of mud That doesn't sound like you mother Don't you ever get sick of the drudgery of of cheap clothes and cheap dishes and cheap furniture?