Campbell Playhouse - 06 - Arrowsmith

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Episode Transcript

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The makers of Campbell Soups Present theCampbell Playhouse, Arson Wells producer Good Evening.

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This is orson Welles. For centuries, the heroes of our popular tales
have been killers, outlaws, soldiers, knights in armor, warrior kings.
Only recently, within the memory ofmost of you are listening to night has
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instead of cutting him up. Theman who strives to persevere life rather than
to destroy it. Tonight's story isone of the first of the recent series
of books, plays, and filmsabout men of medicine. In nineteen thirty
it's author, mister Sinclair Lewis,was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Eight years ago, Aerosmith was madeinto a motion picture. The star of
that picture was Miss Helen Hayes.She is here tonight to play in the
Campbell Playhouse the same role that shecreated on the screen. Would be an
impertinence for me to attempt any sortof an introduction one of the greatest and
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present Arrowsmith starring Helen Hayes and ArsonWell, Doctor Martine Arrowsmith, in the

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name of His Majesty King Gustav ofSweden and on behalf of the honored members
of the Nobel Prize Committee, itis my privilege to welcome you to the
imminent fellowship of those who, inthe realms of science, art and literature,
have rendered distinguished service to the preservationand betterment of humankind. In recognition

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therefore of your brilliant achievement in thefields of bacteriology and physical chemistry, and
your unswethy devotion to the tenets ofGod science, I have the honor to
present what did that? After MartinAerosmith had my name on all sides of

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me sit leading men of science lookingdown at me. I recognize some of
their faces, that man in theeye of the right and the one just
in the back of them last year'sChemistry Award. This is the longest walk
I can remember from my seat inthe back of the hall down to this
platform, a twenty one year walk. I started it with two others,

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with Leora and doctor Gottlieb. NowI'm finishing it alone. I started at
twenty one years ago one September eveningin the chemistry lab at Winnemac class stood
vers till I remember, not tooclose and assistant holding a guinea pig by
its legs. Doctor Gottlieb dipped hishands in the bichloride solution and shook them

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a quick shake, fingers down,like the fingers of a pianist above the
keys. Took a hypogenic needle fromagainst men's bath and lifted the test tube
there no time sure that in thebottom of the tumbler there was cotton to
keep the tubes from being broken.I cannot advise breaking tubes of anthrosis germs

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and afterwards getting the hands into theculture. You might merely get antrak spoiled,
or you might style a little young. I shall now inoculate the second
guinea pig, and the glass willbe dismissed, Doctor Godlin, Doctor Godlin

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felt, Yes, yes, oh, Professor Gottney. My name is Aerosmith,
Martin Arosmith. I'm a medic gofreshman WINNEMACDA. I'd like to offer
to take bacteriology this fall instead ofnext year. See, I've had a
lot of chemistry all it's not timefor you. Oh, I know I
could do it now, professor.But you say your name is Aerosmith's,
sir, well Arrowsmith's. Have youtaken physical chemistry, No, sir,

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but I I did pretty well inorganic organic chemistry, positive chemistry, stinct
chemistry, drug store chemistry. Physicalchemistry is power, it is exactness,
it is life. But organic chemistrythat is a trade for pot washers.
No, you are too young.Come back in a year, adaw Smith.
That year was her time of waiting. I took the first year of

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medical courses and passed them. Ilearned the proper sugar coated pills and phrases
to comforsations with while you estimated howmuch you could charge them. Most of
the professors at WINNEMAC weren't teaching science. They were simply preparing us for a
trade, and that was almost ofthe students wanted knowledge that they could cash
on. They didn't talk about savinglives, but about losing cases, losing

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dollars. My second year, Itook doctor Gottlieb's bacteriology course. In that
winter, I spent more time withguinea pigs, mice, and rats when
with people. I lived in aworld of test tubes filled with watery serum
or deadly vascillive roaring bumps and flamesand steaming sterilizers. Hello, I resmit,

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Oh, hello, Professor Goody,you were working late to night.
Let me see your slide shure mmh, I resmit you have prismanship.
Thank you, sir. Oh,there is an arts and science for if
you. I see you already,and I watched you in the lab before.
Uh let me see your notes yet, uh hm hm. Perhaps next

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thing you would like to try dripon the storms of sleeping sickness. It
was very, very interesting and veryticklish to handle. It's quite a nice
disease. In some villages in Africa, fifty percent of the people have it
that it is invariably fatal. Notesare not bad, but they can still
be more complete Aerosmith. The mostimportant part of living is not the living,

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but pondering upon it. The mostimportant part of experimentation is not doing
the experiment, but making notes,very accurate notes. Well, I'll try
to do better with my notes,Professor. I want to do research like
you. Professor Godley, You've accomplishedso much. The whole world knows what
you've done. Oh no, Ihave done nothing. Except the unpleasant to

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people that claim too much. ButI have dreams of real discovery some day,
and for that I need help.You see Aerosmith, Not five times
in five years do I have astudent who understands craftsmanship and precision? And
maybe some people imagination in hypotheses.I think perhaps you may one day be

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such a student, and perhaps wecan help each other. You and I.
So now this midnight, I wouldbe pleased if you should come to
my room and have a little sandwich. I'll resmit them. We can talk
some more. Doctor Gottley appointed meas student laboratory assistant. I felt very
important. One day in April wentover to the Zeni's Hospital for a strain

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of Priscilla's from a fat doctor Gottlieb'sassistant. I'm looking for doctor Swinston's patient
war D number seventeen, the secondfloor, third daughter of the Light.
In the passage there was a youngprobationer on her knees on the floor.
Her yellow hair had fallen over hereyes, and her green and white uniform
was as scrubby as her tail ofscrub water. Hey, hey, would

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you walk up on this side please? I'm still scrubbing over there. I
want to find ward, will youI do? I'm sorry to interrupt your
work looks awfully important. Well itisn't. The superintendent of nurses put me
at scrubbing. You are never supposedto scrub floors, you know, because
she caught me smoking. As tothe rest, there's no terror, huh.
She found a childlike you wandering aroundhere, she'd drag you up of

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the ears. Cause my impression thateven probation has learned that the first duty
of a nurse is to stand whenaddressing a doctor. I'd like to find
war d to take the train ofa very dangerous microbe, and if you'll
kindly direct you. Sorry, uh, I've been getting pressure again. I
didn't mean to be rude. Iwas just scrubbing makes me bad tempered.
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings.But you do seem so young for a

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doctor. I'm not. I'm amedical student. I was showing off,
so was I hum out Y'm sostiffy. Let me help you. Thanks
pretty hard. This's training for nursingagains. Not so awful, but it's
about as romantic as being a hiredgirl. That's what we call'em in
Dakota. We come from Dakota.I come from the most enterprising town and

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the entire state of North Dakota.Wheat Sylvania it's called. It has three
hundred and sixty two inhabitants. Areyou in the EU Medical School? Yeah,
I'm a junior in Mahallas. Ibet you're good. I don't know.
I'm not much of a medicat.I like to labside. I think
it'd be a bet bacteriologist. Thennot much for the bedside dinner. I'm
glad you're not. You get itand hear plenty. Uh you oughta hear

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some of the doctors that are thesweetest old pussies with their patients, the
way they bail out the nurses butlive now they seem sort of real what
I've seen of them. I don'tsuppose you can bluff a bacteria? What
is it? Bacterium? No,they're say, what do they call you?
Me? Oh, it's an idioticname? Leora toes her. What's

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the matter with Leura? It's fine? Do you really think so? See
when you get away from the hospitalfor dinner, you go out with me?
Say tonight, what please? Alright? We go to Grand Oh no,
that's TERRB be expensive unless you're awfullyrich. You want her you I'm
nah, I just kno money againstyour medical school, but I'd awfully like
to show you. Let's good tobe you. It's a nurse place and

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it isn't expensive. And they gota funny machine there when you drop nickels
and it plays bashy kind of toneslike a Merry Garante. See. I'm
glad you're so crazy about your work, because well, everybody was perfectly sane
where I came from. I gotawful kind of being crazy all alone.

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The present, even with the bestof them, research has been largely amount
of trial and error. The empiricalmethod. It's called you try to establish
a general loss, you can predictwhat will happen the next time to time
after that, and that's where Godleave leads all these detailed, grubbing,
machine made researches. Do you knowwhat I mean? Yes, I think
I do. Anyway I get theway you feel about him. You don't
have to shout, so you knowI didn't mean to. Only when I

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get to think about the way mostof these props don't even know what God
leads up to the way those idiotsdon't even see the relation of his work
on the synthesis of antibodies discoveries ofErniu's. Gee, you're a hope.
I'm not boring you. I'm lovingit. I get so technical and so
noisy. You didn't even stop meand tell me I'll have better manners.

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I don't see anything wrong with yourmanner, don't you really? Has someone
been trying to bring you up?Yeah, but not with any success.
Listen, I like having to trustme. I'm not earnest and I haven't
any brains whatever. But I dolove it when my men think I'm intelligent
enough to hear what they really thinkcan tell me about yourself. I've always

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known you, le Are. I'mnot gonna let you go no matter what.
You're gonna marry me. Yes,I guess I am. At the

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end of my medical course. Leoraand I were married at the City Hall.
Zenas your mind now, darling,I warn you, it isn't gonna
be a bit of use of youever looking at any other woman again.
I tear her eyes out. Oh, you needn't think so well of yourself.
You'll be happy with me because youcan bully me, because I'll tag

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aft you the way. No oneelse ever would. I'm I'm stupid and
ordinary the area. Oh yes iam, But I worship you. I
know your works more important than Iam, maybe more important than you are
more, Oh, Martin, Ido love you. Soon we lived at
Zena's hospital, or I did.She lived out of town. I saw

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as often as I could, butI didn't go near doctor Godley. The
old man never said anything, butI remember the way shook his head when
he looked over the notes on mylast half hearted experiment. And my duties
as an intern kept me too busyto do much regretting. I saw Godie
once more before I left Zena.One night I was off duty. Leora

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and I were walking home from themovies, and ahead of us, the
tall, stooped figure of a manappeared coming towards us, slowly down the
street under the street line. Suddenlyso his face bother what and you'll you'll
remember h m h doctor Godley.Of course I don't remember how east to
everything. Well, I think he'sfine. I mean I'm getting a lie,

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I guess, doctor Godley. ButI want you to meet my wife,
missus Adismith, Doctor Gottlieb. I'mglad to know you. Thank you
your husband. He was a goodchaser of little bugs. Sometime, Missus
Addiwsmith make him remember, yes,doctor, I will good night, good
night, good night, doctor Gottliy. So that's your doctor Gottlieb. Yeah.

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And the uh, how'd he strikeyou? I think he's the greatest
man I've ever seen. I don'tknow how I know, but he is.
I wish, I wish we weregoing to see him again. He's
the first man I ever laid eyeson that I'd leave you for Martin if
he wanted me. He's always likea sword. No, he's like a

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brain, I mean walking m ohand he looked so wretched I wanted to
cry. I'd blacky shoes, Martin. Yeah, PIDIALI are. But we
didn't see doctor godleive again. Withall we have seen us, the Ords
family wanted us to come to theirtown in Dakota when I had finished my

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training. They offered to finance mewhile I started my practice. So soon
after we arrived they held a familycounsel with Missus Tosa presiding. I had
a nice idea, Martin, whycan't we fix you up in office?
Out in the barn it'd be sohandy to the house, or you would
get the meals on time, andyou could keep an eye on the house,
a barn. I don't think youunderstand, mother toes well, yes

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did the old harness room. It'spartly see you and we could put in
some nice top paper, or youcan do what's the tickets you think I'm
planning to do. I'm not ahired man in a livery stable, a
kid looking for a place for hisbird's egg. Cause I was thinking of
opening an office as a physician.Yeah, but jar aren't much of a
physician yet. You're just getting yourtoes in. They aren't good physician.
Burn. I look here, mr. As we're putting up the money.

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I don't want to be a tightwad, but after all, a dollar
is a dollar. If we furnishthe door, we've got to decide the
best way to spend it, isn'tthat's all? Pop? Look, father,
I want you to lend us onethousand dollars out right to use as
we cease it. One thousand dollars. I'll pay you six percent. No
we won't, We'll pay five.That's enough when mortgage is bringing six seven

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and eight five's enough and we wantour own say absolute as to how we
use it. It fixed up anoffice or anything else, now, Leo,
or you're crazy. I suppose we'llhave to lend you some money,
but you'll blame well. Come tous for it from time to time,
and you'll blame well. Take hardvite, Bertie, and the barn's plenty good
enough, Bertie, I know whatwe'll do. You seem to have the
barn in your brains. Ah,you move your old bank there and Martin

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will take the bank building for histoe. You too, showing off and
trying to be smart. Either youdo what I say, just exactly what
I say, or Martin, Itake the first train back and I mean
it. Twenty of places open fromthere with a big salaries, so we
won't have to be dependent on anybody. Well now, or don't take it
that way? Well, do weget our thousand dollars or do we go

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back to Zenith? You are aone out. I got. My office
was in a rickety building near thestation. We nailed a new sign on
the door. On it were goldletters Martin arres if Smiths m D.
Huh ha gee Martin, it looksgrand And it's fun having a place all

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your own, isn't it. Yeah, I wish the patients has start coming
in. I kind of expected afew of them today. Ah, you
don't know. There's town. Thefarmers will watch that sign until the shine's
all off, and then one of'em will maybe have the courage to try
the new dust. Then, well, what am I gonna do? Just
sit here and wait. Come overhere, Martin, I'll show you what
you're gonna do. See this oldbox? Huh, Well, here's an

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orther I swipe from home. You'regoing to bore holes in that box just
big enough to hold test tube.And I'm riaking up an oven contraption for
a sterilizer. You figured all thatout for me, No, not for
you, for an old man whobelieves in you. My first patient had
an ulcerated tooth. I pulled it. The second to run a fish hook

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in his finger. I cauterized thewound. Both patients lived. I expected
a stream of patients from then on. I even made a first installment on
a forward car. Then I wasawakened one morning at three o'clock, Martin,
wake up a telephone, Roger,Hello, Hello, Yes, this

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doctor speaking, Henry Novak Leopolis wrote, yuh see since last night. Alright,
I'll drive right over ms the novaction. Doctor come in. Yes,

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that's right this way, doctor,the little one is breathing born. I
know that quickly and baby davey ophim up. That's a good guy.
Here your hand. Here's the water, doctor, hud Oh is she come
over an there? Oh? CAD'spretty sick. Looks like the sea brought

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some mant a toxin and little injected. It's on the chair. Here's doctor.
She really seeking her very so Igive it some hot clothes, toweled
napkins and anything this room wanna bemoist to keep water boarding. And that's
toe noll right, doctor, Ido everything you say, just so you
save her. Then now w injecttawer twer. Here's some toes, doctor,
wrap her up. Let that sidethis way, doctor, yep,

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yes, one, doctor, whwhat's wrong? Doctor? She's still suddenly?
Doctor, we are there. Itwas my fault, Martin Dues.
I should have operated. I shouldhave operated. You'd be all right now

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operated did the wrong thing. Youdid all you could, Martin, probably
all anyone could do. They calledyou too late. I'll never practice medicine
again. I'll never stop playing thosethings. It'll be different. Use I'm
through. I'm no good. Ican't face people in this town when they
know about it, true, Martin, I'm through. Martin listened to me.
Do you really think you're the onlydoctor that ever lost to patience?

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You did your best? I getto street, Martin. Well, I
did get over it. In acouple of years. I built up a
pretty fair practice. It's wheat Sylvania. I became a director of Bertos's Bank.

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It was a good life in away. In the summer, the
aora and I drove over the PonyRiver for a picnic, suppers and for
swimming. In autumn it was duckhunting, the winter's sleigh rides and socials.
Then one day, my fourth yearthere, Sun Dailius, a great

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scientist and plague fighter, came toMinneapolis election and I made the sixty mile
trip to hear him. After thelecture, I waited to talk to him.
There were things I wanted to askhim. He invited me to a
beer garden. How did he likemy lecture? Now I like to find
doctor San Davis. Oh it's hottonight. I've been lecturing nine times a
week the mornings for George Lacrosse,Elgin and die. I forget. Was

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it all right? Really? Honestly, I've I've never enjoyed anyx much of
my life, Alice Smith, Ihated my lecture, but you will make
me feel like a prophet. Comehave another drink A right as a hygienist,
I wore an alcohol in excessive quantitiesis almost as bad as ice cream
starts. But as one is fondof talking, I find a nice long
glass of larger great sovereign for humanidiots. I don't remember that now,

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then, my friend, what doyou wish to know? I'll tell you
doctor, I'd like you to tellhim to have city health bureaus in Europe.
They do. They are only lessineffectual than our own. See that
girl at the table over there,Yes, war, what ankles? What
shoulders? And ah, this isgood beer, Alice smiths some more lecting
such nonsense. I would give itup. I'm wearing dressed clothes on a

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night's like this too. Doctor.Do you know doctor Gottlieb Gotleeve, I
should say I know him. Heis now at the Institute of McGirk.
Gotleieb has done some great experiments.Great Gottleib would not sit here balling like
me. No, Gotleeb sits homeand works makes me look like a circus
clown. He shows me what afool I am. He is the spirit
of science. He is the leaderin our fight to push diseases off the

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heart. He wanted me to workwith him once. Yeah, I guess
that's what I should have done.I just tinkered a lot of worn out
bodies. Someday, my dear youngfellow, instead of peddling pills, maybe
you will follow me a guttlieb e. This is wed in the same we

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scientists. We must work together tomake a new world, good world for
meant to live in. Hey waiter, bring it out of beer. That
winter I did some experiments on therelation of the mollison production of the age
of culture. My findings were publishedin the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and

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then things began to change for me. In Wwennsylvania, an epidemic of black
leg broke out among the cattle inPrinceton County, and the state veterinarian had
been called, but the disease wasspreading. With Lera's help, I made
a new vaccine in my homemade lab. I injected cattle without search, and
the disease stopped. The veterinaries sentin a complaint to the state Board of
Health, reporting my interference. Andthen I I discovered that the farmer's wife

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was a typhoid carrier and a sectionwhere the disease was prevalent. I demanded
that she be quarantined, and theunity rose up in arms about it.
The meeting was held demanding my removal, but the quarantine was enforced and the
typhoid, of course, disappeared.Then I made the mistake that finished me.
In Wittsylvania, two farmers' children fellill. I diagnosed their cases as

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smallpox and demanded several vaccinations throughout thecounty. Cases turned out to be chicken
pox. After that, life becameimpossible. In August, le R and
I went to the county fair.I remember on the fairgrounds I seemed to
cause more interest among the farmers thanany of the exhibits. HI do come

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on over and see my millins andb your sall pox and almost terrass man,
how are you today? He's gota piple and but us what is
the saw podcast in the dock?He started playing enough, i'd have more
small pox. Basic, Make mehave you do what's going to sis on
my small box? Let me getwell. You should go in for fancy

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disease and talk. Ain't found anycold. Yeah, looks like I'm lickly
or as well get out. Nothingmore I can do here. Take years
before they trust me again. I'mglad Martin. You're too good for them

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here. I've learned a little somethinghere. Even if I've failed. I
Yeah, I guess I don't knowhow to handle people at all. I
could stick it on. I wouldexcept a life short and I think I'm
a good worker in some ways.God leap sort. Maybe I'll still get
a chance. Where do we go, Martin? I have the slightest idea

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from where I can be useful,Jeeves Feerst. Being married, you're I
expected to be a pillar of thecommunity. Now I have to follow you
out on the road and be ahobo. Well, I'm too lazy to
look up on your husband, Martin. Yep, remember that old doctor Godfiet

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gave you the first night we weretogether, and told it to me.
Say it again, Martin, No, alright, I don't try. I
don't know if I can remember it, Seena. God give me unclouded eyes

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and freedom from hate. God giveme quiet and relentless anger against all pretense
and all pretentious work, and allwork left slack and unfinished. God give
me a restlessness whereby I may neithersleep nor accept praise till my observed results

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equal my calculated results, or inpious glee I discover and assault my error.
God give me strength that trust inGod. You are listening to the

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Campbell Playhouse presentation of Arrowsmith, Darring, Helen Hayes and Arson Wells. This
is the Columbia Broadcasting System own.This is Ernest Chappell, welcoming you back

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to the Campbell Playhouse. In amoment or two, we will resume our
presentation of Arrowsmith by Saint Clair LewisDarring, Helen Hayes, and Orson Wells.
This is a play about doctors,and the doctor is one servant of
humanity we all know and respect,and in our varying ways appreciate. Of
course, doctor Aerosmith is a researchman, and the doctor you and I

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know best is a general practitioner,a family doctor. But both of them
work for the greater health and happiness. Of humanity, one in his laboratory,
the other right here in our homes. The family doctor keeps a vigilant
eye on the welfare of our children, advises us on their sleep and exercise,
and their diet. Most doctors,for instance, agree that every boy

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or girl should have at least aquart of milk each day. In this
connection, I'd like to tell youof a pleasant and practical way to give
your children more milk. Have creamsoup frequently. Nearly every youngster is fond
of soup, especially such favorites asCampbell's tomato or pea, or celery or

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asparagus. Simply make them extra nourishingby adding good, wholesome milk instead of
water. I'm sure it will doyour heart good to see how children go
for any of them, because youknow they are getting the good food value
of soup and the high nutritional benefitsof milk. Let me repeat the soups
I mentioned before, Campbell's tomato soup, Campbell's pea soup, Campbell's celery soup,

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Campbell's asparagus soup. I wish Ihad the time to describe e to
them to you, but I urgeyou to serve them and find out for
yourself how good they are. Andremember, when combined with milk, each
of them becomes still more nourishing.And now we resume our Cambell Playhouse presentation
of Arrowsmith, starring Helen Hayes andOrson Wells. Through doctor Gottlieb, I

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got a position at the McGirk Institutein New York. My laboratory there was
the finest I'd ever seen. Ihad a trained assistant, I had all
the apparatus known for his search.And in the midst of all this white
tile, scientific splendor, doctor Gottliebwas waiting for me. O, doctor

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Gottley Martin, this is very good. You are near to me. My
laboratory is just three doors down there. How greatful to your doctor, gratitude
of bar How is that girl youmarried? She's fine, doctor. I
have an idea. She's good foryou. That little girl. She make
you work. Look here, doctorGodlinb, do you really think I know
enough to work here? I wantterribly to succeed, succeed. I have

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heard that word. Uh it isEnglish. Oh yeah, it is a
word that little school boys use atthe University of uh Winnimac. It means
passing examinations, but not. Letus be clear, you know something of
laboratory technique. You have heard aboutthese Bacillia. You are not a good

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chemist, and mathematics poor, mostterrible. Hm. But uh, you
have curiosity and you are stubborn.Therefore, I think you will either make
a very good scientist or a verybad one. Uh. This is your
chance to find out. Arrossmith.I went to work that year trying to

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produce some more effective anti tacks andtreatment of tropical diseases. I farmbled at
first. I made vast experiments withno results. I tried again, day
after day, week after week.Once, for a few hours, I
thought I had found something. Martin, you're home early. Yeah, I

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guess I am. I'm just separated, but I make it right away.
You probably won'ta get back in ahurry. Huh. No, I'm not
going back to labin, not tonight. Leora tell you what. Let's go
out to dinner and the movies aresending Huh Martyn, what's the matter?
Do you suddenly feel that you hadto entertain me? Oh? I didn't
want to go back to the lab. I'd oh as I ever want to

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go back Marten, your expament today. I thought i'd made some progress.
I took my notes to doctor Gottley. He assured me. My mistake.
Or I'm tired out. In eightmonths here at McGirk, I've done nothing.
I haven't been worth my keep.Has the director said anything? Oh?
Has doctor Gottlie. Oh? They'reall kind and patient with Leora.
They expect me to accomplish something.But you have, Marty, you're antitoxin.

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You've almost got it, yes,almost, But you can inoculate people
with a serum. That's almost right. I okay. I just go on
forever, experimenting and failing every time. I'm beginning to think I've got the
habit of failing, Martin. Listento me. You put that coat back
on. Huh. I'm not cookingsupper tonight, and I'm not going out
to eat with you. You'll goright back to that lab and keep crailing

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after those little bugs, and you'regoing to forget about me like you usually
do. And when you come homeat midnight, there'll be a plate of
sandwiches on the table here, Andthen if you've been real good, you
can go to bed, not goneput on your coat, cause that night,
I noticed a curious thing almost undermy eyes. A flask of cloudy
bacteria suddenly cleared some unknown organism.It destroyed the germs in my culture.

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So I spent five days and fivenights in the lavene or. I slipped
in with sandwiches and coffee, andthen slipped out again unnoticed. And on
the evening of the fifth day,I isolated the germ killers. I call
it the ex principle. I wentout, got drunk, and I slept
for two days. The third dayI went back to the mcgreg institute.
There was a mess said from doctorGothy to go and see him. Well,
Martin, I have something I mustsay to you. Uh. Mister

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McGirk has taught to me. Hehas heard of this discovery of yours,
this uh ex principler. He's veryhappy. He wishes to establish you here
a uh for you, a newdepartment of pathology. But you was headed.
What shall I do, doctor Gardlinlike? Except uh no, Martin,
I don't think you will. Whynot shouldn't I something sort of bad?

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Uh? Well, perhaps not altogetherbad has happened? Bad? Wow?
What is it? Oh? Ina way, there's a pity Martin.
What I have to tell you youare not the discoverer of the ex
principle. What someone else has doneit? They have not. I searched

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all literature, and except for Bernstein, not one person has even good Lord,
doctor god, he mean that allI've done all these months has just
been wasted. I oh, andI'm a fool. Well uh, anyway,
du Bois of the Pastor Institute hasjust now published in the Corrandu this
report is your ex principal absolute onlyhe calls it bacterial. Say hm,

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hard Maybe I the care But courseyou could claim to be co discover erm
and spend the rest of your lifefighting to get recognized. Or you could
forget it and to write a niceletter congratulating to Bois and to go back
to work. I'll go back towork. Nothing else to do, I
guess. Uh mcgirkill chuck in yourdepartment. Uh oh, yeah, there's

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no doubt. I have time tofinish my research. Maybe I've got some
points that the Boar hasn't hit on, and I'll publish it to corroborate him.
Fum, give me the report,doctor. I suppose suppose now you're
glad that I'm saved from being asuccess, and I ought to be.

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It is a sin against my religionthat I am not. But I am
getting old, and you are myfriend. I am sorry that you are
not to have the fun of beingpretentious and successful for a while. Martin.
It is nice that you will cooperateto Bois. That is science to

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work, and not to care toomuch if somebody else gets the credit.
So now I threw myself into thetask of making a serum to combat all
kinds of diseases. Or imanized rabbitsagainst pneumonia and found that the immunity spread
to other rabbits. Then I injectedrats with deadly vonic germs and produced an
immunity to the plague. And mylab became known as the pest house.

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I practically lived in it. Thenone day a visitor came to the institute.
I am my boy, I amsenior. Since that night, we
drive so much longer. Now Iremember I had to carry you to the
hotel. Well, doctor, Ihad a notion, was the other way
around? No matter, we helpeach other. Well, what did I
tell you, Alisbon, You belongin such a place as this, chasing

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diseases off the earth. They tellme you've made a price here I'm still
making it. How would you likeme to help you, Martin? You
mean, oh no, no,not here in the laboratory, in the
big laboratory of the world, placewhere we fight the plague like bubonic is
now in the island state Hubert,soon to be spread through the West Indies
from there. Who knows. Thanksand dear, I have to finish my

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experiment. I'm still not sure ofmy serum. Maybe later, Martin,
listen to me. You can besure of your cerreumony one way by testing,
but not on guinea pigs, onhuman beings. My boy, come
with Sunday, Lister Saint Hubert.I couldn't promise that half. Speak to
doctor Gartlieb. I've spoken to themalready. Yeah, we've been plotting against
you. My boat leads there aftertomorrow, Martin, we'll have such good

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fun and maybe we wipe out olddevil. B Bannick, Huh, I'm
going with you, Martin. No, Lear, you're not going with me?
Well I am. It's not safewith you, Buly, of course
it is. You can shoot yourown serum into me and then I'll be
absolutely all right. Oh, Ihave a husband who curious things I have.

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I'm gonna blow in a lot ofmoney on tin dresses, though,
I bet since Hubert isn't one bithotter than Dakota on an argylim Darling,
listen, I do think the serumwill immunize against the plague. You bet.
I'll be mighty well injected with itmyself. But I don't know.
Even if we're practice perfect, alwaysbe some people, it wouldn't protect her.
You simply can't go sweet Martin,don't you know I haven't any life

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outside of you. I might havehad, but honestly, I've been glad
to let you absorb me. I'mI'm lazy and useless and ignorant, except
as maybe I can keep you comfortable. If you were off there and I
didn't know you were all right,or if you died and somebody else cared
for your body that I've loved s, I'd go mad. I mean it,

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can't you see I mean it,I'd go mad. It's just I'm
you that's gotta be with you,and I will help you make your seerum
and everything. You know how oftenI've helped you, And maybe in Saint
Hubert maybe you wouldn't find anybody thatcould help you, even mine little bit.
I'll cook it. Don't make itharder for me. It's gonna be
hard enough in any case, Martin, don't you dare use those old,

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stuck up expressions that husband's been druelingout to wives forever and ever. I'm
not a wife any more than you'rea husband. Oh you're a robin husband.
You neglect me absolutely. The onlytime you know what got on is
is when some button slips and thenyou bail me out. But I don't
care. I'd rather have you thana good husband. And besides, I'm

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going Doc Godley, Yeah, yeah, who is it? It's me,
Doc godleeb I've come to say goodbye. Goodbye. Yeah, that has such
a final sound. But perhaps youare right. Perhaps we don't see each

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other again, Eric Smith, Iam growing old and I have my worries.
You are a man, and youare a genuine worker now, but
I don't mind if I give yousome advice. Godliving, I don't be
sure you don't let anything, noteven your own kind heart, spoil your

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experiment to say you remember to usethe theorem with only half your patients and
keep the others as controls under normalhygienic conditions, but without the serum.
Pay no attention to what Sandelia says. He is a great man, but
he is not a scientist. Somany men, Martin are kind and neighborly.

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So you have added to knowledge.You have the chance. You may
be the man that ends all plague. You must have pity, but not
for those you see dying. Youmust have pity for generation after generation yet
to come. That is your bird, Mattom, and whatever God there is,

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may he bless you. I promiseto do what you say. Doctor.
Uh. Maybe old Godlie would havehelped too. Maybe. Leor and
I sailed the next day from Hobokenvery late one night, and ten days

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later our ship dropped anchor in theharbor of Saint Hubert. The island was
quarantine, so no one was takenon board some dlia's. Leora and I
stood alone on the deck. Onshore. We spied a few lights.
One appeared to be moving toward us, but most of the time was dark,

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dark and still. But ready tomake you do that, poor doctor,
Oh not exactly the doctor stoke causein Saint Squidlin Parish, where all
of us almost everything nowadays. Uhpourt. Doctor died a couple of days

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ago. On many of your bonnycases you've got now, Lord knows maybe
a thousand, ten million rats.So sleepy, well, better be going
ashore there. I'll help you withyour bags. Listen to the earth.
You better stay on the ship.You better not come. See please don't

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not come and me the secretary andtechnical assistant. Do I'm a good court
commission, oh Martin, yes,doc, Oh gosh, I'm scared blue.
Next morning we were walking a bungalowat the edge of the town.

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Poor doctor had lived there, buthe went out one morning, and I
ever came back. After breakfast.We walked down a silent street. Our
shutters were closed. There was acrying woman and the bewildered child, remember,
following an open wagon, on whichwere heaped a dozen stiff bodies.
That afternoon I started to inject,as Gottlieb had instructed me every other man,

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and there they strapped his wrists,put on high boots, and made
ready for his rat crusade. Today, my friends, I on Delia's captain
General of rat killers. If therewere no rats, if you no bugs
carrying your Bonnock. But I fixthem, I asked, walking to a
place in the rats say here's thatold uncle Gustaf. Well what's the use?
And they turned up their toes anddie. Well goodbye, hey,

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good star. What is it You'renot going out this downtry? You've had
an injection of germ. Come onover, no Martin, not until you
give up your experiment. Promise toinject all of these people, every one
of them. I know what Gottliebtold you. Refuse to inoculate part of
the people. Use them for controls, for guinea pigs. Pay no attention
to that wild man Sundalis. Noscientists, I say to Gottlieb. Humanity

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is more important than science. Scienceis for humanity, good stuff for all
humanity, not just these people here. Do as Martin says, No Leura,
I'll do anything for you, butnot that. Well, goodbye,
children. I know have a lotto fight the rats. I shall break
all the laws of property. Ishall set fire to warehouses. I shall

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even burn religies. I shall driveout the rats from their hiding places.
Then I shall have my fun.I shall slaughter rat with clubs, I
shoot them with guns, poison themwith gas, and then when I come
back, we drink and we celebrate. A week later we found sun dailius.
If lying on the ground, there'sblood shone. Yeah, they had

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a fine time when the rats hehad tried. Yeah, you like my
new village. Good stuff. What'sthe trouble? Huh your eyes? You
tell a fever? I think it'sgot me some flea got me flee from
one of those rats. I wasjust thinking, I'll go and quarantine myself.

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Yeah, I fever. Alright,Lord Martain, man's a week not
scared. You know, I'm gonnatake your home goods down will messy and
uh ivilated, so man natures mightthen Martin got leaper is right about these
jest of the gods. The bestone is the topics. Gods plant them

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so beautiful flowers and sea and mountains. It made the fruit to go so
well that man need not work.And then they laughed and stuck in volcanoes
and snakes and damp heat and theplague. The nat stairs to take care
of the play down them who wasinventing the fleet, got to save your
strength. Good stuff, you putyour throw I'm gonna give you a serum

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right now. The time he can'tstart, and do not touch fool me.
It's too late to seal hum,too late for anything. I'm not
afraid to die, Martin, butonce more I'd like to fish stuck home
and Fifth Avenue in the day,the first snow falls, and the whole
week it's severe. One good lastdrunk. Eh. I'm very peaceful,

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Martin. It's hurt some, butlife was a good game, Martin.
Yeah, given these poor people tosee um, save all of them.
Good mind, Martin, do asI'd say. Some day. It became

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delirious. Early next morning he died. From that day, I injected everybody
who wanted my serum. I threwaway my notes. I injected as fast
as I could, day and night. The plague gradually diminished, and first
boat was scheduled to clear quarantine afew days. My work is almost over.
We watched the ship docked from theporch of our bungalow. Martin's doctor

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Stokes was here today. Yes,there are some new cases. It's in
swims. He believes it's spreading upthere. Only mustupply of serum before we
go go. When are we goingthere? Don't all we couldn't Saint Hubert.
Yes, we've done everything, butbut what we came down here to
do? Oh? Please dear,don't bring that up again. Please,
I you know I couldn't have to, you know why? And what are

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you going to tell doctor Gottlie thatyou've failed him? That's true, isn't
it? The fact that the plaguediminished as soon as I began injecting the
serum. Proofs prove nothing, Martin. You'll know that perhaps the epidemics stopped
of its own accord. You don'tknow, and you'll never know until you
go through with the experiment, andyour last chance is sin swivems darling.
Let me go with you. Letme help with the injection and keeping your

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notes. Please Martin, let's finishour job. I have this place ready
for you. Doctor. All right, free and keep the sun off you.
There's a line of native of thequarter of my long All right,
stoke, let's begin. They areaping alcohol right arms, Yes, Martins,

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don't get your truck in a circlearound the grove in mineath tulips.
One that I inject, one thatI don't write. Doctor sergeants, you
write the names down as I callhim out. Yeah, I said,
I'm ready come on one of thetime. Every other one here, every
other one on that side. You'reright on there now the doctor, No
stills, maybe hopp home on Johnplaymous take it down south and John Polman

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home, don't crow road, changein faces, toss a bard, get
you away, doctors. Go tothe layholders there, I'll shoot the first
man. I'll get down the whyall right, that's open up, come
back in an hour to launch thearea the are. What's matter? Nothing,

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darling, just a little tired.I guess no wonder you for kid.
I'm gonna take your home, putyou to bed. You'll do no
such thing. You're going to finishyour experiment one more day and you work
safe. Nothing's gonna stop you now. Well, no, I'll have Stokes
take you down the bungalow. Nonsense. You'll meet'em here. I know

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my way. What's better be afraidof, Darling. You're not afraid of
anything, Yes, one thing,Marta. I'd be afraid if anything happened
to this experiment. It's so nearand it's our big chimes, Darling,
it's everything we've been working towards.It's our whole lives. Well, I'll

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be doing now I'll come down thehow as soon as I finished. Oh
oh, just one thing, Martin, I forgot my second shot of serum
yesterday. Got out your needle,don't it right, Darling? Give me
your arm? Mm I love yourarm. Yeah, I love you,

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Martin. And thanks for bringing mehere. Thanks for well for everything you're
thanking me. Oh darling, butyou don't know what it means for someone
like me, who doesn't amount toso much, getting a chance to be
with somebody who does. Oh,Martin, I'm so proud of you and
what you've done. Darlings does anythingwe've accomplished here or anywhere, it's not

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mine, all yours. It's alwaystogether. Say why are we talking this
way to each other? They area nothing wrong? Of course now it
was silly talkland, but I wouldn'thave missed it. I wouldn't have missed

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anything, Martin, not anything inour whole life. That night, I
injected the last native, collected mynotes, and Stokes drove me back to

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the bungalow. On the bed acrossthe folds of torn mosquito netting, I
found Leori's body, very frail,very still. I talked to her.

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I told her everything right. Idon't know what what I said, And
that evening I dug a deep pitin the garden and carried her there,
a high and windy garden looking towardthe sea. I don't remember how I

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left the island, how I gotback to New York, how my notes
got published, how I got startedworking again, I don't remember. And
now I'm standing in this great hall, and I have a scroll of parchment
in my hand. I know thatthe world has just honored my work,

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and that this is the loneliest dayof my life. You have just been
listening to the Campbell play House productionof Arrowsmith starting Helen Hayes and Arson Wells,

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and here he is Arson Wells,Ladies and gentlemen. The road.
The road, which is what actorscall the theater outside of New York,
has had its ups and downs.As you know, the last two years
during which Miss Hayes has brought herwonderful performances Victoria and Victoria, Regina to
forty five cities all over the nationmust definitely be called an up. Miss

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Hayes concluded her engagement in Victoria onlylast Saturday, after making theatrical history.
Thanks very great honor to have herwith us to night, and i'd like
you to meet her. And Helen. I'm sure that everyone in the theater
and everyone who goes to the theateris curious about your plans for the future.
What are you going to do next? I'm going to take a darn

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good rest, with your permission,Miss Hayes. I'll tell our audience what
a rest means to you. Itmeans, ladies and gentlemen, going back
to being missus Charles MacArthur taking careof two children and a house overlooking the
Hudson River at Nyak, New York, and of course overseeing a family farm
in the hill was a few milesaway. Miss Hayes, Am I correctly

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informed that the MacArthur family even goesso far as to grow its own milk.
We do have four jerseys, andwe hope that by economy and careful
management, we can eventually get thecost of our milk down to a dollar
a quart. I hope you do, Missus MacArthur, and I hope even
more that Helen Hayes will very soonbe back with another play as fine as
Victoria Resina, and in behalf ofmy sponsors, the makers of Campbell soups,

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and all of us in the CampbellPlayhouse, I want to thank you
for coming here tonight. And nowhe's Ernest Chapel in themometer or two orson
Wells will bring us news of nextweek's story. A little while ago I
spoke of the excellent flavor of Campbell'stomato soup. It is display favor that

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has made tomato soup the most popularsoup in all the world, more often
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and fine taste of each spoonful firstto last. Why don't you and your
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Tomato Soup. In tonight's presentation inthe Campbell play House, Arson Wells and

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our guest Helen Hayes was heard inthe roles of Martin Arrowsmith and Leora.
Professor Gottley was played by Ray Collins. Than Dalius was played by Frank Reddick,
Mister Tozer by Everett Sloane. AlSwinson played Henry Novak. ePIE Palmer
played Missus Pozer, and Carl Frankwith Doctor Stokes. Music for the Campbell
play House with the Reins and conductedby Bernard Hermann and now Orson Wells.

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Will you tell us about next week'sshow? Well? Next week, our
story is the classic Shaka, thesaga of an aeroplane that crashed into the
private mountains of a well mannered Rajahwhose wickedest word was law. Somewhere east
of the Sun and West of theMoon, The Green Goddess, starring Madeline

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Carroll, who will be saved frommy clutches in the nick of time until
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at the Campbell Playhouse next Friday eveningto hear the Green Goddess starting Madeline Carroll.
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