Letter to Mr Priest

Remember, a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. From Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark's reading card bring you new heirs. In Margaret Cousins, a letter to Mr. Preece on the Hallmark Playhouse.

Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars, an outstanding story, chosen by one of the world's best known offers. They distinguish novelists, Mr. King's children. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse, we present our dramatization of an engaging story called A Letter to Mr. Priest by Margaret Cusans.

I came across this recently in a volume of best American short stories, and I think you'll enjoy it as much as I did. Miss Cusans' chief character is a country lawyer, and she does for that profession what other writers have done for the doctor and the school master.

That is, she presents him as a human being, and in doing so asks a question that a good many of us must have. What does real success in life are marked to? For our starter night we are fortunate indeed to have that fine actor Lou Ayres.

As the story begins, Marshal Fennen, attorney at law, is standing outside his home in Fort Mason. From the mailbox he expects an official looking envelope, and as he slowly walks back to the house, he begins to read a letter whose contents, well, our story will tell you in a moment.

Now a word about Hallmark Cards from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of a letter to Mr. Priest, starring new heirs. At Christmas, as on every memorable occasion, you'll take special pride in sending Hallmark Cards.