The Juggler of Our Lady

The Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Screen Guild Player tonight. The Juggler of Our Lady. The Starring Players. This is Ronald Coleman and this is Nelson Eddie. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players welcome you.

And we hope your entire family and all your friends are listening in. For tonight is the long awaited night in our show. The night when we present once again our beautiful and well loved Christmas story.

the juggler of our Lady, starring Nelson Eddie and Ronald Coleman. John Nesbitt, the famous commentator, wrote this adaptation of Anatol Francis' dramatic legend, and we thought it's so beautiful a Christmas tale, that several years ago we asked John's permission to perform it.

Lady Esther is proud to bring it to you again tonight. And now, Ronald Coleman is here to bring you the story of the juggler of our Lady, and also nanny to play and sing the role of the kindly monk who befriends the poor juggler the special musical score will be played by Wilbur Hatch's augmented orchestra

ladies and gentlemen the juggler of our lady in the days when the world was young there lived in France a man of no importance everyone said he was a man of no importance and he firmly believed this himself He was just a poor, travelling juggler who could not read or write, who went about from town to town following the little country fairs,

and performing his tricks for a few pennies a day. His name was Barnaby. When the weather was beautiful and people were strolling about the streets, this juggler would find a clear space in the village square, spread a strip of old carpet out on the cobblestones, and on it he would perform his tricks for children and grown-ups alike.