The Village of Fools
Description
A delightful farce in which a man is sent on a task to find the hamlet of Helm. But on his arrival, he is given the duties of a magistrate and given the mission to save the moon. E.G. was delighted to present this comedy and the actors.
A funny comedy where a man gets sent to look for the town of Helm. When he gets there, people make him a judge and tell him he has to rescue the moon. E.G. was happy to show this funny play and the actors.
Baron Rothschild, a man of great wealth, dispatches Mendele-Moishe to find the town of Chellem, whose location is known to no one. Mendele will know it, the Baron says, when he finds it; it is a village of fools. Mendele is sure he has located such a place when he meets a man searching for a ruble he lost in some mud. He is looking for it on hard, dry ground which, he says, should make it much easier to find.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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