 Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best Tonight from Hollywood the makers of hallmark greeting cards bring you very Fitzgerald in Edward McStorley's our own kind on the hallmark playhouse Each week hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars and outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best-known authors They distinguish novelist mr. James Hilton Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton Tonight on our hallmark playhouse. We present a story ideally suited to the day St. Patrick's Day It is called our own kind by Edward McStorley and mr. McStorley is evidently the man with experience to write it for he has been at various times a farmer a sailor and a fisherman and Not only do we have this warm hearted and appropriate story But we're especially lucky to have in the starring part that superb Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald A man whose genius I have admired ever since the days many years ago When I used to line up outside the Abbey theater in Dublin to see his wonderful performances in that famous almost fabulous theater So here we are on St. Patrick's night Already to enjoy ourselves with Barry Fitzgerald in Edward McStorley's our own kind And now Frank Gauss have you a word or two about hallmark? There are hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar for birthdays anniversaries holidays Yes for a friendly greeting a word of good cheer an expression of sympathy There is a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say it and that identifying Hallmark on the back that says you cared enough to send the very best Now hallmark playhouse presenting Edward McStorley's our own kind and starring Barry Fitzgerald St. Patrick's day a Great day for the Irish But especially so for me for wasn't it on St. Patrick's day that I got me first glimpse of America That was a long time ago. I was a young one then and so was we my nerve But we found happiness here In Providence, Rhode Island. We lived and we raised two fine sons But we found sadness too when the oldest God rest them was lost There they are now it's all over now But don't hold in go into your room have a good cry. It'll do you good That's right mom and try to get some rest do Chris Chris you're all we have left Will is in good hands now Remember what father O'Connor told you You ought to get some rest yourself that there'll be time enough for resting later We've somebody else to be thinking about now Little Willie well, he can stay at Aunt Tessie's for a while. It'll be all right there until we can make some arrangements Arrangements arrangements for what I haven't taken into the boys home get good care there anyway He'd be better off in an institution. Do you really think so? Chris would you think so if he were your own without being sentimental about it? Yes, all right Then let's be sentimental about it Now there's something the lad needs somebody to run to when the world gets too big from Not only somebody to treat his bruises But somebody to pat his head when the donors a boy needs comfort and you can't crawl into the lap of an institution I'm bringing them home here where he belongs because he secrets He's our own kind It's the matter what you need you've ruined them all man you're acting like was your first day in the foundry I'm sorry to him. I've got something on me mine little Willie again. How old is the boy now? He'll be seven years old come October I'd be glad when he's all enough to come to work and then maybe you can forget about him Well, he'll not be working here. So you needn't wait He'll have reading and writing and he'll not be a sod like his grandfather. Hey, I'm worse yet. Look you oh It's the sad I am is it at least I can read and write me your name which is more than you can do Oh, I'll tell them about that in the office. Maybe they make it president of the company Lee what's going on down here? Well, we were how we were just reminiscing about old times. We'll talk on your old time Yes, yes A man can't even talk to his old friend. I don't mind for myself, Ned But I don't like him yelling at you like that If he wasn't off home and I'd go up and give him a test to be shoveled. I never mind a man's home is his own Come on, we'll never stop up with her sander. Goodbye Tim everybody. Good. I Chris. Are you seeing that young school teacher again? That's a friend daily. Yeah, good willies in our class at school. No might as well have the family on the right side I'd best be getting the dishes done Time for you to go to bed will you boy? Let it go for another day Tim, and I want to talk Don't let me be a bother your promise grandpa. Well, no seeing that Tim is a guest Maybe he'll read you the fun. Oh, not at all. I'd like to have you read them All right, will you sit on me laugh? Yes, well now we'll start with this one. I'm all ears. Yes, that's typical of a donkey Well, no this is here fella. This is he's a tinker with the name of a rock What's a tinker? He's a man who fixes pots and pans as good as new now this one over here. Oh, he's the bad fella. He's an Englishman It goes without saying Let me see now. Oh, she bought the pots and pans from the Englishman. Yes, Rob did There were no good until all fixed them now. They're all right Yes, but the Englishman wants to take them back now because the poor woman can't pay these sorrows I wonder if the paper knows I've got that comic strip in there Sure up you Tim Well, then a rock and the Englishman getting a fruit as you can see with a rock and actually get the best of it You know, that's enough for tonight. All right grandpa. Good night uncle Tim. Good night Willie I never heard such a comic strip before in all my life And you want him to know that I can't read or write I Don't want him to follow meet him I don't want him to follow his father or Chris who learned a little and then stopped He's got to see things too. Now. He's started the school I'd like to take him on a little trip. Take a trip You want to take a trip get all dressed up and put on tight shoes for what? Well, I don't want the boy to think that the whole of America has been squeezed into one little city called Providence, Rhode Island. Now, will we Well, we can go someplace of a slender camp. Well, there's the boats to block island and other places that live from the war Block Island that doesn't sound bad at all There's two boards that makes the trips the war worked in the mount hope the war works a bit slower But it's a it's a half a dollar cheaper. Well, then we take the ball However, the captain the mount hope is named off clarity of clarity Well, no, I think it's worth the extra half dollar to ensure a man's life getting there safely We'll take the mount hope Oh to this fellow coming along the deck with their hat I haven't seen him do a little work since we left the dock the Puzzle the person they call them Over there. Yeah. Yeah, look pretty side isn't she? Oh you? Grandpa, it's the mount home. No, this is the mount hope Willy We're on the mount hope ourselves Now try to read it again old seed you make it out any better this time I can spell it out for you if you want me to go ahead lad. Spell it out or you in T H O P E That says Mount Hope No, try again. Try again practice makes perfect as you must say. Oh good heavens that I believe the boy is right It is the mount hope and what kind of a dirty trick is this hey you you with the hat there Is there anything wrong? Well, I'm none of your tricks now what ship is this we're on when we left the wharf She was the edgemont. She probably still is but where's the mount hope then what's becoming the mount hope? That's her alongside of us there. That's her all right Ned. Well, then where's captain O'Flaherty. Who's he? He's the master of this vessel. That's who he is. There's no captain O'Flaherty aboard this ship The master's name is Reginald Crippingham, and we're bound for new London Tim Tim. We've been shy hide the takeness to England What take it is in that new London's in Connecticut just the same we've been trapped now look at you I bought tickets for the mount hope this morning to go to Block Island. Here are my tickets You can read what they say. Can't you steamer edgemont to new London, Connecticut? We don't go near Block Island. You bought your tickets at the wrong window. Don't you new London me your game is up We're going to Block Island and that'll be all of that. Not on this ship And don't make any disturbance unless you want to see the inside of the new London jail Oh, it's no use Ned. He's right. Huh? You've over 30 years younger. I'd show that buckle Now they will eat new London's nice enough just as good as Block Island And there's ice cream to be had there. There's none at all on Block Island. You know ice cream that fancy that Now what makes you look so sad? You couldn't read it You couldn't read the sign on the boat. Oh, well never you have made a mistake. That's all you couldn't read it I I wasn't weird and miss fix Grandpa the moment James Hilton will return to present the second act of our own kind starring Barry Fitzgerald On this friend list of days when old friendships are renewed kept green and fresh as the fields of Kilkenny I don't think it would be a mist to remind you that the charm of this day lies and they get togetherness of it Not only the Irish but all America seems to become one happy family What is Thorough wrote back in 1843? Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance Now no one better understands that truth than those who make hallmark cards and Because they understand your loneliness when you and your dear ones are separated They offer you a way of bridging the miles of keeping in touch with friendship cards And you'll find hallmark friendship cards always have a way of saying just what you want to say the way you want to Say it it's a talent that those who make hallmark cards have like their talent for making cards that are top drawer in design In materials in the careful way they're put together So when you choose your hallmark cards do as your friends will surely do look on the back for the hallmark that tells them You cared enough to send the very best How we present act 2 of Edward Maxwell is our own kind starring Barry Fitzgerald I couldn't read and Willie discovered it that day on the boat to New London He never spoke of it again But it didn't bring me the funnies of a Sunday either Not did we stand together before the picture of brave Robert Emmett that hung in the parlor Well, I read the words beneath it to him the words that I had memorized I Had to do something about it. So I went to see Fritz's girl Catherine Daly the school teacher. Couldn't I get you something mr. McDermott? Perhaps a cup of tea. No, no, thank you. No, no, I have a matter of grave importance on me mind About Willie. Yes I don't know what's gotten into the boy. He was my best student. I was certain he'd win the class medal, but Yes, I know it's all my fault my fault for not being able to help them Mr. Ailey will you Of course I will What would you suggest? Well, maybe it'd be to help in the boy if it could teach me to read and write You mr. McDermott. Yes me I'm asking you please girl to teach an old man the ABC The brown CW The brown cow just a minute your cousin Larry is here and what are you locking yourself up in this room for every blessed night? Suppress on the table Hello Ned Well, I never expected to see you Larry I thought the whole lease force would be resting up for the St. Patrick's Day parade tomorrow I had some business over in this neighborhood checking up on a few young boys have been getting into some devilment Indeed, what's out of devilment? Come on Willie take a seat at the table I'm not too hungry bunch of our lads here have been ganging up on kids from other parts of town Sounds bad. Yes, and it's getting worse a couple of days ago They picked on an old man called him names and threw mud at him go on Larry Well, one of the kids is the McNally boy Stevie his parents will take care of him. All right, but he won't tell who the others were Grandpa, I don't feel too good. I don't want to eat Can I go to bed sir? Yes? Well, you can go to bed. I'll be in later to say good night here. Are you awake lad? Yes, grandpa. I'm awake. What's wrong? No, I Was with Stevie McNally. I was one of the boys like a Larry told you about yes, I know you are What made you do it? Stevie said foreigners and no right being over here and because Stevie said that you threw mud at an old man They're not our own kind You've always said we should stick to our own guide No, that isn't the way I said it willy our own kind is the family and the family sticks together But outside of that our own coin means all the people who are here in this country with us working and building as we are No matter where they come from or what they were before There are all kind now. You never told me that before. Well, I didn't think you needed it before I'm an old man myself willy But I could walk to any part of this town tomorrow and none of the others would lift a hand to harm me I won't do it again grandpa Honest, I believe you lad now. How about something out of bed for a minute? Okay, yeah, there's some beef left over your grandmother put in the icebox and a boy who ain't no supple Should be a good match for a sandwich Sit here in the parlour for the cold soul. I'll get the sandwich and Then Robert Emmett's picture can watch you while you eat Been a long time since we read the words under the picture hasn't it? look at them Rave Emmett that the judges condemned for train to set oil and free Will I read his words to you? If you want to well, it says here When my country takes a place among the nations of the earth then and not till then let my epitaph be written Fine words, aren't they? Yes, grandpa. Shall we read them together like we used to? You don't know how to read them you memorize them grandma told me oh she did it you well No, let's see if she's right. Now the first word is when that's WHEN Well, I believe in that and then we'll skip on to the money and take care take country See oh you went here while grand boy you can read you can game what made you think I couldn't But the day on the boat. Oh, I didn't have me specs as I told you You want to read it with me now? Yes, yes, all right Just once through though because we have to be up early in the morning and get seats on the grandstand To watch the same passage day parade now here we go When my country takes a place among the nations of the earth Niders should all have a heaven's sake will you look at Pete Karen on the white horse years after he came over here Would you he's getting so fat? I can hardly see the horse. Well, I'm only a human Horse because I'd I know Pete isn't that tall the weight of the money in his pockets kept him from growing full-size There's Terry donovan with the bagpipes. Did you ever see such a site nearly I did not with all the blown He does about other things you wouldn't think you'd have breath enough left in them for the pipes Look those unfaulif clovers the shamrocks and that isn't a midget. It's a leprechaun Well, that was quite a parade wasn't it come on back to the hostage They're having a play Catherine daily my teacher is in a play on a holy day Just father O'Connor know about it. Sure. He directed it. Oh, well. Well, I suppose if he directed it must be all right They're going to do it twice for the kids this afternoon and you and grandma can see it tonight. Ah, no I'm not much of a one-for-plays Run along and come home as soon as over here boy. You'll knock the walls down Yes, she's a pretty thing. All right. Now. What is the show about? Dancers doing jigs or reels. Oh, no. No, it was a play about a British landlord British landlord in church on St. Patty's day. You see you see you see They work at that's the way the girl's earning former but she didn't know it's bitch. She didn't did she Willie? Where from them? Oh, what you want him to do stain for the whole British army Well, what happened then Willie the British shot the poor man in the back. Didn't they start him Murphy? Oh That's the disgrace of the Irish that's forever a treasurer amongst them Then the landlord offers to get Roy out. Ah, so that's his game Well, you might as well get that right out of his mind. She never do would never in God's world She didn't ditch it. No Roy escapes and Catherine get married. Mother. Mother. Get your coat. Come on. Come on Jim Come on where to see the play. It's the greatest play you ever heard of. It was a delight Catherine I'm glad you liked it. Oh, it was grand. Mr. Did just grab well frankly. I'm a little worn out. I better go I'll get you cool I hope you come again often since I've got a hunch you'd be a member of the family soon Oh, you're making the girl blush Ned. Well, let's be commentaries, huh? I Think I have some good news for you about Willie He came to me after the show this afternoon and beg for a chance to get back into the class contest for the reading And did you refuse him? No, I told him he'd have to make up some ground first. Did he say he would? He said you'd help him. Oh, I will. I will. Are you ready, Catherine? Good night everybody. Good night. Little Willie He'll be all right now Tim He'll do the Irish pro someday when he hangs out a sting shingles a doctor or a lawyer Willie McDermott M.D. I can see it in the mind Ned education costs money lots of it Willie doesn't need that kind of help Tim He needs the kind I've been able to give him He needs the dreams and the ambition There's a way open here in America things called scholarships He's for the working for them You know Tim This is the biggest country in the world because it's Ireland as well as America The kind of Ireland that Robert image dreamed about and It's every other country that has men like him who dream about liberty and a chance for a man to make good on his own That's all that Willie needs And that's what he's got and nothing will ever stop him. No Nothing will ever stop him in a moment James Hilton and Barry Fitzgerald will return But first is there anyone who doesn't love a bit of Blarney even if you aren't an O'Brien or a Quinn chances Are someone sent you a green-tinted card today and didn't it please and flatter you to know that someone was thinking about you? Why not spread this same font sincere kind of thoughtfulness among those you care for? Send hallmark friendship cards the year-round if you feel you haven't the gift for expressing what's in your mind Let the makers of hallmark cards take care of that Picture the please grins that would greet your hallmark cards that simply say hello Across the miles to those old school pals You only see it class for unions that favorite aunt you used to visit during vacations remember and gruff old uncle Ben how many years is it since he used to take you fishing he was no softy you would tell you But it's strange how his glasses sort of cloud up about some things like having your card to let him know you haven't forgotten him Yes, there's a host of dear ones who'd welcome a little affectionate greeting from you the kind you'll find on the legions of hallmark friendship cards See them where you buy your hallmark cards send them you'll be glad you did Here again is James Hilton Wasn't our play tonight a grand way to close a grand day a Delightful story of one of the most admirable of all human trays that of wanting your children to have something better than you had And we also enjoyed the company of one of the most delightful personalities in the whole acting profession a great actor as you have heard and A great Irishman. Thank you for being here. Barifitz Gerald. Thank you, Mr. Hilton And I'd like to thank Gilbot Barnett who played my grandson and Degrine who played Tim. I Really enjoyed myself. In fact, I like it here. Well, we're certainly glad you do Well, I might change some of the decorating around here. I think I could send a such more green, you know Maybe I'd add a couple of more halves to that orchestra Of course, I'd be sure not to change those hallmark greeting cards of yours The mighty fine cards just the way they are and so is your playhouse I've enjoyed being here tonight, and I thank you for allowing me to celebrate this happy day with you Fine to have you with us, Mr. Fitzgerald come back and see us soon again And please listen next week when we bring you a great story of the early American West Stuart Lake's Frontier Marshal starring Richard Conte in the role of Wyatt Earp and the following week It will be our great pleasure to welcome the current Academy Award-winning star Loretta Young in a dramatization of Irving Stone's book Immortal Wife and the week after that Betty Smith's novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn starring Margaret O'Brien Our hallmark playhouses every Thursday our director producer is D. Engelbach Our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray and our play tonight was adapted by Joel Murcott Until next Thursday then, this is James Hilton saying good night Look for hallmark cards that are so lonely in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service Remember hallmark cards when you carry enough to send the very best Very Fitzgerald will soon be seen in Bing Crosby's Paramount picture top of the morning This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all and inviting you next Thursday and every Thursday to tune in one half Hour earlier and listen to the adventures of Casey crime photographer followed by the hallmark playhouse This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system