Free Land

Remember, a hallmark card when you care enough to send the very best. Tonight from Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark greeting cards bring you Miss Martha Scott in Rose Wilder Lane's free land on the Hallmark Playhouse.

Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in 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.

Right on our Hallmark Playhouse we have a story admirably suited, I would say, to the mood of all of us tonight, the mood of Thanksgiving. It's good to have this mood in which we can look around us and feel without any smugness or self-satisfaction that we are luckier people and that the luck began, as indeed most luck

does, through hard work and sacrifice. These are among the great things we remember today, and few stories could be more appropriate than the one we present tonight. A story by Rose Wilder Lane entitled, Free Land.

And for that matter, there is appropriateness also in Miss Lane's having written this fine story, since she was born in the Dakota Territory, and her mother was one of the original pioneers who had come out from the East in the old homesteading days.

This virile background lends an inspired quality to the story we tell tonight, and we are additionally privileged to have in the starting role one of Hollywood's most charming and distinguished actresses, Miss Martha Scott. Now, Frank Goss, would you take over for a moment, please?

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