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Farmer in the Dell

Hallmark Playhouse · January 11, 1951 · 27 min · 3,578 words

The transcript of “Farmer in the Dell”, an episode of Hallmark Playhouse first broadcast January 11, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Hallmark Playhouse plays Hallmark Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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A hallmark card when you carry it out to send the very best. Drinking cards bring you Charles Bickford, in Edna Ferber's Farmer in the Bell, on the Hallmark Playhouse. We bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories, chosen by one of the world's best known authors.

They distinguish novelist Mr. James Hilton. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse, we tell you a lighthearted story with a moral, the kind of thing that I think its author, Miss Edna Ferber does excellently, means of which she has attained such deserved popularity. All is a shrewd observer of the

American scene. Miss Further and our story tonight, which is called Farmer in the Dell, handles one of the perennial themes of American life, the pull of town versus country on our different generations. And thus so often happens with Miss Further's stories, the outcome has freshness and a warm insight into the human heart. To play our Father tonight with his

home's fun integrity and his deep affection for the land, we have chosen their distinguished act for Mr. Charles Bickford. And now a word about Hallmark Cards for Frank Goss. Before we begin the first act of Emma Ferbus, Farmer in Liddell. May we remind you once again that for every occasion important to your friends and loved ones

there are Hallmark Cards to carry your thoughts across the miles, across the years, or merely across the way. A Hallmark Card says what you want to say, just the way you want to say it. And that identifying Hallmark on the back says that you cared enough to send the very best. Now Hallmark Playhouse, presenting

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