The Old Nest

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Hallmark is proud to present the distinguished novelist, Mr. James Hilton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse we have a story by Rupert Hughes called The Old Nest. Mr. Hughes is a veteran American author who lives and writes here in Hollywood I recall being much impressed by his workroom when I visited his home.

I should think it contains one of the largest private libraries in America, and it was a room to be worked in, not to be tidied up too much. In fact, a stranger might have considered it the untidiest writer's room he'd ever seen, until he looked at mine.

But you know if you're a professional author and you have something to write about, it doesn't much matter what your surroundings are, you just go on writing all the time and on all kinds of subjects.

Mr. Hughes, for instance, has put in a lifetime at the writing game, and is a treatment vary from popular magazine stories and novels to his realistic and equally popular biography of George Washington. Some years ago Mr. Hughes wrote the story which we present on the air tonight, and I suspect he was in a sentimental

mood when he wrote it. This is by way of warning, or should I say promising you, in advance, that the oldness is the sentimental story. And if you agree with me that today is not exactly a sentimental moment in world history, perhaps the contrast will be provocative. Now before we begin, Frank Goss has a message from