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Great Scenes from Great Plays

21 episodes · 1948–1949 · Mutual · Drama

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Scenes from famous plays performed by members of the Episcopal Actors' Guild, made for the Episcopal Church and heard on Mutual.

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Episodes

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1948

• Cyrano de Bergerac October 1, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  The first show, performed by members of the Episcopal Actors' Guild: Rostand's poet-swordsman with the famous nose.
• The Corn Is Green October 8, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  Emlyn Williams's play about a schoolteacher in a Welsh mining village and the gifted boy she teaches.
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street October 15, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid ruled by her tyrannical father, and her courtship by Robert Browning.
• Dark Victory October 22, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  A young woman facing a fatal illness finds love.
• On Borrowed Time October 29, 1948 · 26 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Little Women November 5, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  Scenes from Louisa May Alcott's story of the March sisters.
• A Tale of Two Cities November 12, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  Dickens's story of the French Revolution.
• The Enchanted Cottage November 19, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  Two lonely, plain people find each other beautiful in a cottage with a magic of its own.
• What Every Woman Knows November 26, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  J. M. Barrie's comedy about the clever wife behind a politician's success.
• The Devil and Daniel Webster December 3, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  Stephen Vincent Benét's tale of a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul, and the great orator who defends him.
• The Old Lady Shows Her Medals December 10, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  J. M. Barrie's play about a London charwoman who invents a soldier son for herself during the First World War.
• Young Mr. Lincoln December 17, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  The young Abraham Lincoln as a country lawyer.
• You and I December 31, 1948 · Mutual · 29 min
  A comedy about a father and son who share a dream of being artists.

1949

• The Citadel January 7, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  A young doctor's struggle between idealism and success.
• The Farmer Takes a Wife January 14, 1949 · Mutual · 30 min
  Romance and life along the Erie Canal.
• Icebound January 21, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  Love and family hate in a New England household.
• The Goose Hangs High January 28, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  A comedy of parents and their grown children.
• The World We Make February 4, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  A woman who has escaped from an asylum finds the strength to face the world.
• Dead End February 11, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  Juvenile delinquency in the slums of New York, where one boy almost gets a second chance.
• A Doll's House February 18, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  Ibsen's story of a wife who discovers she has been living in a doll's house.
• The Lady with a Lamp February 25, 1949 · Mutual · 29 min
  Florence Nightingale.