sentences:  Phillips Lord had created the character of preacher and folksy philosopher Seth Parker for a Sunday night series broadcast by NBC Radio.Its popularity led RKO Radio Pictures to purchase the film rights and assign Jane Murfin to write a screenplay with Parker and his wife as the central characters.Originally entitled "Other People's Business", it drew criticism from a studio script reader, who thought the plot was dated and noted, "A story of this type should never take itself seriously, for the day when pictures like "The Old Homestead" [a 1915 Famous Players film focused on a popular New England vaudevillian] would grip the attention of a movie audience is lost forever."