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A Breath of Air

Hallmark Playhouse · May 3, 1951 · 29 min · 3,368 words

The transcript of “A Breath of Air”, an episode of Hallmark Playhouse first broadcast May 3, 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 up to send the very best. Breath of Air. Transcribed on the hallmark plate, Hallmark bring to Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best snowmogers.

They distinguished novelist. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse, we present a dramatization of the latest novel of a very fine English writer, Rumor Gotten. It's called A Breath of Air, and it handles the theme which is not the worst because Shakespeare once handled it in the tempest.

The theme of an enchanted island presided over by a philosopher who has a beautiful daughter. Miss Cotton works out this idea with much originality and charm. And to star in her story we are equally lucky, for we have that charming daughter of a distinguished father, Sarah Churchill.

And now a word about Hallmark-Carts from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of say something to someone you care for, look for a hallmark card and you'll find the right words. Because hallmark cards are designed to say what you want to say, the way you want to say it, and in the good taste personal signature. That's why hallmark on the back

of a greeting card has come to mean you cared enough to send the very best. And now hallmark playhouse, presenting rumor gardens, a breath of air, starring Sarah Churchill. One at some time or another has visited an island or had an island of his own, a coral island, a desert island, a treasure or Swiss family, Robinson Island, an island of the mind.

So say Mr. Van Loomis, who with his young daughter found his island in the Pacific, an island called Terekwir, a soul fragrant inhabited by a people who had lived there in peace for centuries, this little lovely island.

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