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SHOW #219-A
KINE: Monday, April 17, 1957
AIR:  Tuesday, May 28, 1957 
Seaman Mayfield Rathbone
Mrs. Jane de Mille

SENTIMENTAL REUNION

PROPS: Picture of Mary
       (Jane will have in
       her hand. Bill will
       hold it up to camera)
BILL
On August 13, 1935, a woman passed away. She'd lost her husband about one year before. She left 3 little children... (CAMERA IS ON MAYFIELD RATHBONE... CLOSING IN) Jane, age 4; Mary, a little girl, age 3; and Mayfield, almost 2. (WE ARE NOW TIGHT ON MAYFIELD RATHBONE) Today, 22 years later... Seaman Mayfield Rathbone of the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, California is in our audience. How ya doin', Mayfield... will you stand up, please? (HE DOES) You and your two sisters were put in the Michigan Orphan Home in Saginaw, Michigan on August 16, 1935... 3 days after your mother passed away. A month later... oldest sister, Jane, was adopted by a fine family in Lansing. In November of that same year, your other sister, Mary, was adopted by a wonderful family in Toledo, Ohio. And we know that you, Mayfield, were raised by Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone in Flint, Michigan. Pretty great people, aren't they? (HE SHAKES HIS HEAD "YUP") For 22 long years... none of the three of you children found each other. You lived apart not knowing what had really happened to each other. Then, last November, your sister, Mary, was able to get some records from the Orphanage. She began tracing. And what an exciting day it was last March 3rd, when after 21 years... you got a long distance phone call from Mary in Southfield, Michigan. You and Mary were reunited by phone... and then on April 3rd, you found that your oldest sister, Jane... was right here in Los Angeles.



SPECIAL GUEST: MAYFIELD
RATHBONE (Room for 2 at 
Roosevelt Hotel, Sunday
night. We will give Mayfield 
Rathbone $10 for travel
expenses.)

MARY RATHBONE.
(to be transported from 
Michigan. Reservation at
Knickerbocker for her.)



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