Pride and Prejudice

Central Standard Time, at the time, none of us are at one you'll care enough to send the very best. The makers of Hallmark Greeting Card bring you an exciting dramatization of an unforgettable story on the Hallmark Playhouse.

Tonight's story was chosen from the whole world of fiction by one of the world's most popular authors whose knowledge of stories that will entertain you and show your imagination is universally recognized. Hallmark is proud to present the distinguished novelist, Mr. James Hilton.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight our choice on the whole Mark Playhouse is a classic that most people have read in book form or else seen on the screen. Pride and Prejudice by the famous English novelist Jane Austen. Now Jane Austen was a very interesting woman. She lived just over a hundred years ago. She never married.

And her life in an English village was quiet and you might say uneventful. But she had kind of mind that people ever since have liked to commune with. with. Indeed, there are many people today who, if they were asked which writer of all time they would like to know personally, would say Jane Austen.

And there's another interesting thing about her. She lived during the Napoleonic Wars when England was threatened with invasion just as pearlessly as a few years ago. And she lived also within a few miles of the English channel on the other side of which the enemy armies were encamped. Yet in all the novels she wrote, and they were all about the England

of her own times she never once mentioned the war that was in progress her concern was not with major problems such as war but with life's little perplexities of emotion and conduct partner in the field you said life's little perplexities of emotion and conduct yes the simple every day things in life why do i ask because those are the