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really be the important thing?
(MUSIC: Narrative Theme and
Down)
NARR: In the late spring of
that year of 1923, Maxwell Abbell
announced to his parents that he
planned to be married (MUSIC
FADING) His father listened,
quietly. And after the congratula
tions had been offered and the
wishes for good luck expressed,
Moshe Eliyahu Abbell took his
son aside . . .
PA: Max—a long time I haven’t
talked to you.
MAX: I know Pa. It’s been a
busy time.
PA: So let me say something
now. Something I’ve learned.
MAX: Sure, Pa.
PA: Sometimes a son—it seems
to his father he’s running away.
The father has one way, the son
has another way. You under
stand?
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MAX: Of course, Pa.
PA: So now you’re getting
ready to leave—to make your own
house—I want to thank you for
Mama and me. You’ve been a
good boy—
MAX: Please, Pa—
PA: No. let me finish. And what
I’ve learned—maybe some day you
will learn it too—is, sometimes
when a son runs away from his
father, if he runs far enough he
comes to the same place. Maybe
he has a different way of doing
what he believes. But, finally, he
believes what his father believes.
(PAUSE) So run away Max. It’s
all right. And may your life be
a blessing.
(MUSIC: Narrative Theme and
Down)
NARR: They were married on
August 21, 1923. It was a simple
wedding, and when it was over,
Maxwell Abbell, his total capital
of one hundred dollars in his
pocket, boarded a coach train to
sit up all night with his new wife
on the way to the Wisconsin dells
. . . (MUSIC: OUT) (SOUND:
TRAIN WHEELS UNDER. REGIS
TER TRAIN WHISTLE, THEN
DOWN)
He was 21 years old, and his
life, as it would many times again,
was just beginning . . .
(SOUND: TRAIN WHISTLE)
FAN: Max —
MAX: Yes, darling.
FAN: It’s so right to be on a
train after you’re married. It’s—
MAX: The beginning of a jour
ney? Yes, darling. (PAUSE) I
hope a long and beautiful jorney.
FAN: I’m so happy, Mac. I’m
really so happy.
MAX: I am, too. Fan. Deeply
happy.
FAN: It’s because I’m with you.
MAX: And I with you.
(SOUND: Train Wheels Register
Up, and Down)
FAN: Max, you look as if you’re
a million miles away.
MAX: No—I’ve just been think
ing, darling.
FAN: About what. Max?
MAX: Something Pa said when
I told him we were going to get
married. He was trying to tell me
that values are like a circle—that,
really, I was very much like him.
FAN: You are, darling. Much
more than you know.
MAX: I’ve been thinking about
it, though. And I’ve realized some
thing very strange. All of my life
—until I met you, I think. Fan—
all of my life I’ve concentrated
on what I didn’t have as a child.
FAN: I know. Max.
MAX: And now. suddenly—
now that I’m beginning to think
that someday we’ll have children,
ycu and I—now, suddenly, I find
myself thinking of how much I’ve
had. How rich Pa and Ma were
that they could give so much
away . . .
FAN: You’ll do the same, Max.
You’ll see.
MAX: I hope so, Fan. Maybe
not in the same way, but I hope
so. (PAUSE—could it be that
their lives are so rich because they
gave so much to others?
(SOUND: TRAIN WHEELS UP,
AND COVER WITH . .)
(MUSIC: Narrative Theme and
Down)
NARR: This was Maxwell Ab
bell. He would go on to achieve
material success beyond his wild
est dreams. But he would go on
also to the use of that success to
create a unique fusion of the
American dream of achievement
and the Jewish dream of learn
ing. He joined the great traditions
of two heritages in his striving
for a heart of goodness . . .
ABBELL: (ECHO) I have found
happiness only in making others
happy. I found freedom • on
ly in strengthening others, free
dom. I have found wisdom only
in helping others to gain wisdom.
(PAUSE) I should despair unless
I believed to see the goodness of
the Lord in the land of the liv
ing.
(MUSIC: SNEAK)
NARR: Each day of his life
Maxwell Abbell witnessed the
goodness of the Lord in the land
of the living. For his goodness of
heart was a legend in his own
lifetime. It is a legend afire w'ith
life, as the man who lived it was
afire with life. By precept and ex
ample he lights the way for
others, even as by precept and
example the seeds of his greatness
were planted — in his father’.;
house.
MUSIC: Up and Curtain).
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