The Desert Shall Rejoice

Remember a hallmark card when you'll carry enough to send a very bet. Tonight from Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark Reading Cards bring you John Hodyak in Robert Pincher's The Desert Shall Rejoice on the Hallmark Playhouse.

Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars and outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors, the distinguished novelist Mr. James Hilton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. this is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse we present our dramatization of a play with a wonderful title, The Desert Shall Rejoice, a title which the author Mr. Robert

Finch took from that wonderful passage in the Bible, the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose. Mr. Finch wrote much for the theatre, but nothing more appropriate for this time of the year than the desert shall rejoice. It is indeed a portrayal of the Christmas spirit against

the colorful background of our own America. And I think you'll find its chief character, Nick, is one that stays in your mind as strikingly as it will in mind. And we're additionally privileged to have, starting in this part, one of Hollywood's most interesting and forthright young actors, John Hodget. Now, Frank Goss, may we have a word from you?

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And on the back of everyone is the identifying Hallmark that says, you cared enough to send the very best. In Mark's Playhouse, starring John Hodyak in Robert Finches, the desert shall rejoice out on a highway through the Nevada desert, is Nick's Place, a small and lonely tourist camp.