National Velvet

Remember a hallmark card when you carry it up to send the very best. Some Hollywood makers of hallmark reading cards bring you Roddy McDowell in Innebagnol's National Melbourne on the Hallmark Playhouse. We at Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors.

They distinguished novelist Mr. James Hilton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse we give you a story which won its way into the hearts of a large public just as sensationally as one of its chief characters won a different kind of contest.

It is National Velvet by Innibagnold, a very fine English writer, and the word national in the title refers to the Grand National, one of the great horse races of the world, which is held every year at ancient near Liverpool.

It's so long since I saw the Grand National myself that I can't even remember the name of the horse that won that year, but I do remember the excitement and the color of the occasion.

And these, I think, Miss Bagnell admirably captures in her story. She also combines it with a truly delightful hero and heroine. And for these exacting roles, we are happy to bring you together a veteran among Hollywood's most popular young stars, Roddy McDowell and Miss Anne Whitfield, whose charming talents Hollywood is now busy discovering.

And now, before we begin National Velvet, here is Frank Goss, who has a few words about Hallmark. Thank you, Mr. Hilken. Hallmark cards have a magic carpet quality about them. They take you visiting, however great the distance, to help celebrate a birthday and anniversary, or just any day when you're thinking of someone.