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Speaker 1 (00:09):
W WENDC and w WENDC FM, New York.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Eight pm.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
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Stay tuned now for the Cavalcade of America.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Cavalcade of America starring Wilver Hampden and featuring Ivan Curry
in Footlights on the Frontiers, presented by the DuPont Company,
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Speaker 4 (01:48):
Now foot Lights on the Frontier, a story about the
boyhood of Joseph Jefferson, one of America's greatest actors of
the last century.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
As Joseph Jefferson Walter Hampden will.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Tell his story, it's a reckless thing for a man
to write his own biography. The present golds glimmering, and all.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
The yesterday's trooping.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
The eye no longer looks about but inward and backward.
And instead of the gossip and the small talk and
the tittle tattle of our day, the ear can hear
the voices of the forgotten and the far and the
long ago.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Joe, Joe Jefferson.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
That's my father dead these forty years.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Joe, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Kill the gladiator's swords for tonight's performance?
Speaker 8 (02:55):
I aimed, as soon as I come on St.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
Peters Peer.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
It was niceness, And there I am, Joseph Jefferson, the third,
aged ten. There's my mother singing, as I heard her
sing that song a thousand times, not in her own father,
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by her own fireside, mind you, but sing in the
only home I ever knew. When I was a boy,
any theater we happened to be playing for my father's
little company played them all from Maine to Georgia, to
the wilds of Illinois. Home Sweet Home is in the
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play Clary is a fair maid of Milan, and it
always brought the curtain down to a fine round of applause.
Oh there was one night I remember especially, and I'm
going to tell you about.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
It now.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
Tonight. How lovely, Joe, Hey.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
We're Brisco all right? Did you hear him during my
big speech?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I thought there was rain on the roof, but no,
there's only this spittoons working over time.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
You can't expect people a little place like this to
behave too genteel, Joseph, this is the frontier.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Practically this is Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, someday we'll play real cities New York, Philadelphia, maybe
even Boston, Boston Park in Boston, Joe, we'll even own
our own theater, honest park, Yes, sir son, our own theater.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
Don't pay any attention to your father, Joey.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
Why to own a theater in Boston across hundreds and
hundreds of dollars, maybe even thousands.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
There's other places in this countrysides Boston where a man
can build a playhouse and where it ain't so crossly.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
What are you talking about, Joseph Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The state capitol of Illinois is right down the river, Mary,
a place called Springfield.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
In a few weeks, the state legislature is going to
be in session.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
There'll be there for months.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The company wouldn't help, but do first rate business there.
What the trouble is there's no fit theater in the town.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Well, I had in mind we.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Might build our own theater in Springfield.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Joseph Jefferson calling Park, Can we can?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We?
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Of course, we can't do nothing to use for money.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Wait a minute, Mary, timber and labor are cheap out
this way. If we took the profit we've made here
in Chicago, we can swing it.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
But Joseph, that's every penny we have in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You'll make a good thing out of it. Mary, you
say nah, And it isn't just the money.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
It's for once owning.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Our own place and being our own masters in nice heaving,
wouldn't it?
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Shall we do it?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Please?
Speaker 9 (05:39):
My legs? Let's why ask me? Your father will do
just to give mine to you. Anyhow, go in build
your theater in Springfield. Why I care if we all starve?
Speaker 8 (05:49):
I knew you'd talk her around. Park.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Your mother's a wonderful woman. Joe, but like all women,
she hates to take chances.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
She said we should go and build it, didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
She I don't think she really meant it.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
We're going to build our theater.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I hope your mother won't mind too much.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I've tried the boards in all the capitals of the
known world, and I have appeared on more stages than
I can count. But never a stage or a theater
has meant to me what that one did in Springfield
those many years ago. You see, I helped build that one.
The entire company did, uh lead, Lad?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
What's the man, mister Featherstory to think?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
But I whom missus Siddon said held the future of
English acting in the palm of me hand.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That they reduced to pounding nails in the forsaken American jungle,
the busy of it that they.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Cheer up, mister Featherstone. We're almost done.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well, if we're done for well, for done quickly, lad, Gosh.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
I think it's going to be beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Flad, I have played covnant gardens.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't expect me to win fuse over this inherted
shoe box.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I did we make a pile of money here. The
whole town's waiting for us to open.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Yes, if we ever do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What do you mean the town council of this mettropolis
Springfield has so far not seen fit to grant us permission.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
To play you mean pison, not the license yet.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
In a word, precisely.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
But they promised it before we started building.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I don't say they won't give it to him. I
only say they haven't so far, worthy, lad, things.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Will work out.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
There's a diffinity that shapes our ends or a fuel
them home.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We may go.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Tell me what's the matter, mister finished burst my finger?
It's blamed, real burnying it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Who would have thought the old man had so much
blood in him?
Speaker 9 (08:11):
I'll get ma, Ma, Ma, what is the joy?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Mister Featherstone hit his fingers again.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I can't hear me.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Day And unfortunately this is the finger I use in
the last step to point.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
At my betrayer.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I'm afraid my performs will be blue him.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Here.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Let me tie this around it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It is not so deep as a well, nor so
wide as a church door, but tis enough.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Twill serve.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
That's burnning, mister Featherstone.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
I shall go there always exit on a lot.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
He's burning. Where's priet ma Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:49):
I think he's seeing some of the councilmen about the permit.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
We still loved the.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Opening night a rain, yes, and we haven't got our
permit yet, but they promised you. And on top of
everything else, Rosalind has a bad cold. You can't open
without someone to play the Girl's Park.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Or she'll be all right. Oh you're just like your father.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Everything's always going to be all right, Tama.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I wish you wouldn't be mad at park. He feels
real bad about it.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Then why did he come here?
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Because I thought it was this prover.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
I don't hear any here. He is is Jefferson, Pa
are all built just about park.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
We'll be all finished today.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's been time too. We're opening Friday night.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yeah, that did I hear?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Did you get the permit?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Here? It is?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Oh? Look Mark, I see well.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
I better go doctor Rosalind some more. If her throat
don't get better, there won't be any show Friday permit
or no permit.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
I wish mar wouldn't take on soon.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
She's worried, that's all Joe, not about what's going to
happen to herself. But you'll need, Joe, especially about you.
She thinks the world of your son.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Yes, Simon, No, but I wish you'd be happy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Again, just as soon as that hard silver starts rolling
in the box office every day. Right, your mother will
be happy as a lark again, you'll see.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
I know her doesn't get very soon, huh.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It won't be so good, son. We've got to have her.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Couldn't we get somebody in spring of place?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Wonderful if we could, but I doubt it. They grow
lots of things around here, but not actors. Well, let's
get on with our building, Joe.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Can you know what mister Featherstone did part.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Get hammering the What are you saying about, mister Featherstone?
Speaker 8 (10:25):
It was funny party ounce.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (10:28):
I hit my thumb? Tell me so.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
There we were in Springfield, but the first time in
our lives we owned the roof over our heads. It
was a wonderful feeling. But I kept worrying about rosalind
Ah as you know, would she be well in time
for the opening night?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
How she throwed Roslin pretty good. I think you'll be
all right by Friday, I hope. So you shouldn't use
your voice and don't keep asking me question, mister Featherstone.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yes, lad most.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Girls like to act, don't they?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All women fancy themselves actresses. Land that holds true, from
the Thames to the banks of the Congo.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
What about Springfield?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Pi? Ma worried about Rosin's voice. I was wondering if
I could find some girl here who can maybe take
her place.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Put up a black heart in the public square Land
tomorrow you'll have young ladies at the stage door in Blows.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
I'll do it, mister Featherstone. We don't tell Parma. I
want to surprise him.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
So I made a sign and put it up in
town where it can be viewed by all. And sure enough,
several young ladies did appear at the theater the next
That is, some were young and some weren't, and some
were ladies and some I wasn't exactly sure about. The
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One thing I know is that none of them were any.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Great shakes of a present.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Even mister Featherstone was discovered.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
They are told ill fated, Ruth him hollow. Now Py
Corps help very be.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
I fear I'm alone. Ratherlin for me her funeral girl,
shall me blendid?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Miss blended.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Why isn't he your well?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, unfortunately, my jo I think you make our leading
lady jealous.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
But thank you just the same.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
My father and mother would never let me go on
the stage anyway.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
You have wise parents, My dear mall man.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Is there anyone here who hasn't yet pavored us with
the demonstration of her Espian gifts?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Gee, I haven't.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
My name's Betsy jikes, and I'm the best reciter in
our school.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
The teacher says, So something, Betsy, something brief.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Yes, sir, come in, little stranger, I said, as she
tossed at my half open door. While the blanket pulled
over her head just reached to the basket.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
She bore.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
A look full of innocence fell from her modest.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
And pretty blue eye as she said, I have matches
to sell, and I hope you.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Are willing to buy. Set your neighbors to girl tis married.
Speaker 11 (13:32):
She said, Mary dow and carelessly tossed off a curl
that played on her delicate brow.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Father thoughts on the deep.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
The ship never got to the shore, and mother is
fadim a week to hear the wind blowncy rore. She
thought I was stickly said she paid all their money
for wood, and so I thought matches were bad care.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Of a bird.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
Will never forget her for sake, the children are tuching
his word.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
And now that I'm not going to hit.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
It, I think I could do very well. I wished
we dreged the peg. Why, how little bird that I
thought for?
Speaker 11 (13:58):
I hope I'll dread your nest for I hook all
the after she brought Mary.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
They tell you the rest. I know a lot of
other pieces.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Too, enough, white enough, But you.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
Haven't heard the dying drummer boy.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Go EXI please, you mean.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
You don't want to hear me recite anymore?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
My dear young lady, there should be a law against well, that's.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
The way you feel. Maybe there ought to be a
law against you. Pray asters. My father's on the Springfield
Town Council.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
He'll fix you.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
He'll fix us. How he'll see that you won't get
a permit. My PA's already gotten. Then my pall take
it away from him. You'll see if he don't. You
just say, oh, do you think your father could take
out room to will mister feathers storm Ah, No, we'd
be ruined if they did.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, this won't happen, at least I hope it won't.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Oh you mean we could lose a permit.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Labs In the theatrical profession, anything can happen and you
visuallye gone. If you're listening to the Cavalcade of America
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presented by the Depart Company, makers of Better Things for
better Living through Chemistry, tonight, our star is Walter Hamden
and we feature Ivan Curry in Footlights on the Frontier,
an original radio player about the boyhood of Joseph Jefferson,
one of the most beloved and captivating actors ever seen
on the American stage. Now we continue our story.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Well, that day long as old drag gone and on,
and nothing happened, Why mister Featherstone once said it might.
By the next morning, I was beginning to think that
Miss Betsy Jikes had been talking hot air as the saying.
When then I heard Pa calling me Jesiph. I knew
something was wrong. He was calling me Joseph.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And a gentleman on the town council by the name
of mister Jikes informs me that you enticed several young
ladies of Springfield into our theater and ask them to
recite for you.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Is that frue.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I didn't Entyle, I just put a sign up.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
By what right do you take it upon yourself to
manage the affairs of my company?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
I only did it to help. I thought i'd.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Surprise you did, Joseph. Thanks to you, we've lost our permit.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Oh gee, honest? Yes, oh Dad, I'm sorry, Josh. I
didn't need it. Is there anything I can do?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Son, you can go out and take down the playbills
announcing the opening of the.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
New Jefferson Fifth and Springfield.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I you turrible about pa.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I suppose I feel I've got to tell your mother.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Like all men, I've had my share of difficult days,
but I can't ever remember one as bad as that.
Every time I pulled one of our playbuildings or a
barn wall, it was like taking a piece off my hide. Finally,
when I was off where I thought nobody'd see me,
I really let go and cried enough tears to work
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the rain effect in Romulus the Shepherd King.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
What's the trouble Boy?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I looked up to see the tallest, skinniest, ugliest man
I ever saw my whole life. But here's the funny part.
I never saw a face I liked better. Something eating you?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Boy?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
I'm sorry? Boy?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Like this, well, everybody's got to cry some everybody don't tear,
Stay in and you're insides rust I never trust a
man who can't cry or a man who can't laugh.
You can cry, all right?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
I can laugh too, can you not? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Are you with the play actors opening up here Friday night?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Yep? Oh we ain't opening.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
You ain't And it's all my fault.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You suppose you tell me about it? Boy?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
So between my sobs, I got the whole story out.
Then the stranger asked me a lot of questions who
I was?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Did I like play acting?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And why?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
And a lot of things like that.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
None of them seem to have anything to do with
getting our permit back.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Either, Joe, What do you need to get your permit back?
Is a good lawyer?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Where can we find with?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Right here? I'd be my pleased to take your case.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
A campaign A liar, mister, Don't you worry about that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All I want is to see you get a fair deal.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Gee, thanks, mister.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Only one thing I want you to do for me, Joe?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well? Seeing we're going in this case together, I wanna
be sure you're the kind of fella I can trust.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Eh.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Let me hear you laugh, Joe, Come on, come on,
that's it uh at the night, Laugh Joe, if you do.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
So.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Then the tall man that I went up to where
the town council was meeting, they seem to know him,
and they all seemed to like him, except Betsy Jakes's father,
That is, he looked like the kind of fellow we
didn't like anything. Right away, he was mad because the
lawyer brought me there.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I don't see any call for you to put in.
What are you here for?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Iahow I told him at the Jacks, I'm with the Jefferson's.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Lawyer, and I don't see mister Jefferson, I.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Mean, young mister Jefferson here, sail old old how do
you do it? And now Joe feels mighty bad cause
you gentlemen, of taking the permit away from.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
His paw and his pie. Gonna get it back? He said,
we don't want no play actors in this.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Town, you know, with the Jakes the gentleman of the consul,
I am reminded of a dog a friend of mine
had who lived on buttermilk. That dog wouldn't so much
as touch a bone but she laughed up buttermilk by
the churnful, nice, peaceful, friendly dog too, except for one thing.
Just let her see some other dog nowing on a
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bone and she'd go plumb crazy. She didn't like moon.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
She wasn't gonna let her a dog tam.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
If you ask me, I think we ought to have
a little more sense than that old dog. Now there
was another thing.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, the stranger went on talking, and I never heard
his equal anywhere.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
It wasn't that he.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Talked louder or softer, or used bigger words than other folks.
It was that he he somehow made everything he said
seem truer than anybody else could make it. He could
have said the moon was made of pie crust and
we'd all have believed it.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
But he didn't talk about the moon.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
He talked about me first, and how I caused all
the trouble because I wanted to help my par Then
he told how we all came that hard way out
to Illinois doing our plays for folks, how we'd play
any place there was. He got them interested, then he
got them smiling, And when he got around telling about
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the time we did Hamlet in the Bond with the
pig pen underneath. They all got laughing right out in
the louds.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
So instead of hammers following at their crime swear from
beneath the stage, those fogs went quick. They were more
severe speptics of the drama, and Melita to jail.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Evil and the stranger got there talking about plays under
the how they first happened to directed why he knew
more about it than pay. He told about the Greeks,
about how the actors messed up like gods and spoke
words even gods would be proud to speak. And he
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told how in the Ages people were ignorant, and the
priests to teach them came before their altars and acted
out the stories of the birth and the death and
the rising up again of Lord Jesus. And he told
of Shakespeare, who wasn't only the sweetest writer of them all,
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but a play actor too, just like par Me. Somehow
it made me proud the way.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
He said it.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Then all of a sudden he stopped talking and turned
to me.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
When I could talk to you about why we should
allow these play actors in Springfield, pill had dropped, and
I couldn't say it as well as Joel here says
me a while back, Joel, I want you to repeat
for these gentlemen what you said to me about why
you loved acting.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Do you mean about the audience, I mean about the audience. Well,
if the praise good. They always looked so happy, if
somebody had given him a wonderful present or something. And
it's a nice feeling to be able to do that
for people, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We rest our case.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Well, the council voted, and after a few days we
got a permit, and what an opening night we had.
And that night before mar sang her big solo, she
stepped down to the footlights and made an announcement.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind permission, I shallall gratefully
dedicate the singing of my song to that young lawyer,
without whom we could not be playing here in Springfield tonight,
mister a Lincoln.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Loser to be.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
That was a long time of ago, but I can
still hear the.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Voices which didn't.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
If I hadn't Joe, I wouldn't have been able to
see the play tonight. I'm like you, I love good
Little I'd love to go to.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
See to our star Walter Hamden, to Avan Curry, and
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the Cavalcade players are thanks for tonight's play footllights on
the frontier. On this occasion, may we extend our special
congratulations to mister Hamden, whose birthday is being celebrated.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
This month, and whose distinguished.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Career in the Ammerican theater to serve as an inspiration
to those young players who hope.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
To follow the the acting profession.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
As president of the Players Club in New York City,
mister Hamden.
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Now foot Lights on the Frontier, a story about the
boyhood of Joseph Jefferson, one of America's greatest actors of
the last century.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
As Joseph Jefferson Walter Hampden will.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Tell his story, it's a reckless thing for a man
to write his own biography. The present golds glimmering, and all.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
The yesterday's trooping.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
The eye no longer looks about but inward and backward.
And instead of the gossip and the small talk and
the tittle tattle of our day, the ear can hear
the voices of the forgotten and the far and the
long ago.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Joe, Joe Jefferson.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
That's my father dead these forty years.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Joe, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Kill the gladiator's swords for tonight's performance?
Speaker 8 (02:55):
I aimed, as soon as I come on St.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
Peters Peer.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
It was niceness, And there I am, Joseph Jefferson, the third,
aged ten. There's my mother singing, as I heard her
sing that song a thousand times, not in her own father,
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by her own fireside, mind you, but sing in the
only home I ever knew. When I was a boy,
any theater we happened to be playing for my father's
little company played them all from Maine to Georgia, to
the wilds of Illinois. Home Sweet Home is in the
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play Clary is a fair maid of Milan, and it
always brought the curtain down to a fine round of applause.
Oh there was one night I remember especially, and I'm
going to tell you about.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
It now.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
Tonight. How lovely, Joe, Hey.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
We're Brisco all right? Did you hear him during my
big speech?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I thought there was rain on the roof, but no,
there's only this spittoons working over time.
Speaker 10 (04:14):
You can't expect people a little place like this to
behave too genteel, Joseph, this is the frontier.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Practically this is Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, someday we'll play real cities New York, Philadelphia, maybe
even Boston, Boston Park in Boston, Joe, we'll even own
our own theater, honest park, Yes, sir son, our own theater.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
Don't pay any attention to your father, Joey.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
Why to own a theater in Boston across hundreds and
hundreds of dollars, maybe even thousands.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
There's other places in this countrysides Boston where a man
can build a playhouse and where it ain't so crossly.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
What are you talking about, Joseph Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The state capitol of Illinois is right down the river, Mary,
a place called Springfield.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
In a few weeks, the state legislature is going to
be in session.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
There'll be there for months.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The company wouldn't help, but do first rate business there.
What the trouble is there's no fit theater in the town.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Well, I had in mind we.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Might build our own theater in Springfield.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Joseph Jefferson calling Park, Can we can?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We?
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Of course, we can't do nothing to use for money.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Wait a minute, Mary, timber and labor are cheap out
this way. If we took the profit we've made here
in Chicago, we can swing it.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
But Joseph, that's every penny we have in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You'll make a good thing out of it. Mary, you
say nah, And it isn't just the money.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
It's for once owning.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Our own place and being our own masters in nice heaving,
wouldn't it?
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Shall we do it?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Please?
Speaker 9 (05:39):
My legs? Let's why ask me? Your father will do
just to give mine to you. Anyhow, go in build
your theater in Springfield. Why I care if we all starve?
Speaker 8 (05:49):
I knew you'd talk her around. Park.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Your mother's a wonderful woman. Joe, but like all women,
she hates to take chances.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
She said we should go and build it, didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
She I don't think she really meant it.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
We're going to build our theater.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I hope your mother won't mind too much.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I've tried the boards in all the capitals of the
known world, and I have appeared on more stages than
I can count. But never a stage or a theater
has meant to me what that one did in Springfield
those many years ago. You see, I helped build that one.
The entire company did, uh lead, Lad?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
What's the man, mister Featherstory to think?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
But I whom missus Siddon said held the future of
English acting in the palm of me hand.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That they reduced to pounding nails in the forsaken American jungle,
the busy of it that they.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Cheer up, mister Featherstone. We're almost done.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well, if we're done for well, for done quickly, lad, Gosh.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
I think it's going to be beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Flad, I have played covnant gardens.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't expect me to win fuse over this inherted
shoe box.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I did we make a pile of money here. The
whole town's waiting for us to open.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Yes, if we ever do.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What do you mean the town council of this mettropolis
Springfield has so far not seen fit to grant us permission.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
To play you mean pison, not the license yet.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
In a word, precisely.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
But they promised it before we started building.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I don't say they won't give it to him. I
only say they haven't so far, worthy, lad, things.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Will work out.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
There's a diffinity that shapes our ends or a fuel
them home.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We may go.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Tell me what's the matter, mister finished burst my finger?
It's blamed, real burnying it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Who would have thought the old man had so much
blood in him?
Speaker 9 (08:11):
I'll get ma, Ma, Ma, what is the joy?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Mister Featherstone hit his fingers again.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I can't hear me.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Day And unfortunately this is the finger I use in
the last step to point.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
At my betrayer.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I'm afraid my performs will be blue him.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Here.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Let me tie this around it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It is not so deep as a well, nor so
wide as a church door, but tis enough.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Twill serve.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
That's burnning, mister Featherstone.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
I shall go there always exit on a lot.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
He's burning. Where's priet ma Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:49):
I think he's seeing some of the councilmen about the permit.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
We still loved the.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Opening night a rain, yes, and we haven't got our
permit yet, but they promised you. And on top of
everything else, Rosalind has a bad cold. You can't open
without someone to play the Girl's Park.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Or she'll be all right. Oh you're just like your father.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Everything's always going to be all right, Tama.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I wish you wouldn't be mad at park. He feels
real bad about it.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Then why did he come here?
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Because I thought it was this prover.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
I don't hear any here. He is is Jefferson, Pa
are all built just about park.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
We'll be all finished today.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's been time too. We're opening Friday night.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yeah, that did I hear?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Did you get the permit?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Here? It is?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Oh? Look Mark, I see well.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
I better go doctor Rosalind some more. If her throat
don't get better, there won't be any show Friday permit
or no permit.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
I wish mar wouldn't take on soon.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
She's worried, that's all Joe, not about what's going to
happen to herself. But you'll need, Joe, especially about you.
She thinks the world of your son.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Yes, Simon, No, but I wish you'd be happy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Again, just as soon as that hard silver starts rolling
in the box office every day. Right, your mother will
be happy as a lark again, you'll see.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
I know her doesn't get very soon, huh.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It won't be so good, son. We've got to have her.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Couldn't we get somebody in spring of place?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Wonderful if we could, but I doubt it. They grow
lots of things around here, but not actors. Well, let's
get on with our building, Joe.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Can you know what mister Featherstone did part.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Get hammering the What are you saying about, mister Featherstone?
Speaker 8 (10:25):
It was funny party ounce.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
What's the matter?
Speaker 8 (10:28):
I hit my thumb? Tell me so.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
There we were in Springfield, but the first time in
our lives we owned the roof over our heads. It
was a wonderful feeling. But I kept worrying about rosalind
Ah as you know, would she be well in time
for the opening night?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
How she throwed Roslin pretty good. I think you'll be
all right by Friday, I hope. So you shouldn't use
your voice and don't keep asking me question, mister Featherstone.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yes, lad most.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Girls like to act, don't they?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All women fancy themselves actresses. Land that holds true, from
the Thames to the banks of the Congo.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
What about Springfield?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Pi? Ma worried about Rosin's voice. I was wondering if
I could find some girl here who can maybe take
her place.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Put up a black heart in the public square Land
tomorrow you'll have young ladies at the stage door in Blows.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
I'll do it, mister Featherstone. We don't tell Parma. I
want to surprise him.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
So I made a sign and put it up in
town where it can be viewed by all. And sure enough,
several young ladies did appear at the theater the next
That is, some were young and some weren't, and some
were ladies and some I wasn't exactly sure about. The
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One thing I know is that none of them were any.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Great shakes of a present.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Even mister Featherstone was discovered.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
They are told ill fated, Ruth him hollow. Now Py
Corps help very be.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
I fear I'm alone. Ratherlin for me her funeral girl,
shall me blendid?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Miss blended.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Why isn't he your well?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yes, unfortunately, my jo I think you make our leading
lady jealous.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
But thank you just the same.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
My father and mother would never let me go on
the stage anyway.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
You have wise parents, My dear mall man.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Is there anyone here who hasn't yet pavored us with
the demonstration of her Espian gifts?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Gee, I haven't.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
My name's Betsy jikes, and I'm the best reciter in
our school.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
The teacher says, So something, Betsy, something brief.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Yes, sir, come in, little stranger, I said, as she
tossed at my half open door. While the blanket pulled
over her head just reached to the basket.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
She bore.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
A look full of innocence fell from her modest.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
And pretty blue eye as she said, I have matches
to sell, and I hope you.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Are willing to buy. Set your neighbors to girl tis married.
Speaker 11 (13:32):
She said, Mary dow and carelessly tossed off a curl
that played on her delicate brow.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Father thoughts on the deep.
Speaker 11 (13:38):
The ship never got to the shore, and mother is
fadim a week to hear the wind blowncy rore. She
thought I was stickly said she paid all their money
for wood, and so I thought matches were bad care.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Of a bird.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
Will never forget her for sake, the children are tuching
his word.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
And now that I'm not going to hit.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
It, I think I could do very well. I wished
we dreged the peg. Why, how little bird that I
thought for?
Speaker 11 (13:58):
I hope I'll dread your nest for I hook all
the after she brought Mary.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
They tell you the rest. I know a lot of
other pieces.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Too, enough, white enough, But you.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
Haven't heard the dying drummer boy.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Go EXI please, you mean.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
You don't want to hear me recite anymore?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
My dear young lady, there should be a law against well, that's.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
The way you feel. Maybe there ought to be a
law against you. Pray asters. My father's on the Springfield
Town Council.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
He'll fix you.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
He'll fix us. How he'll see that you won't get
a permit. My PA's already gotten. Then my pall take
it away from him. You'll see if he don't. You
just say, oh, do you think your father could take
out room to will mister feathers storm Ah, No, we'd
be ruined if they did.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, this won't happen, at least I hope it won't.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Oh you mean we could lose a permit.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Labs In the theatrical profession, anything can happen and you
visuallye gone. If you're listening to the Cavalcade of America
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presented by the Depart Company, makers of Better Things for
better Living through Chemistry, tonight, our star is Walter Hamden
and we feature Ivan Curry in Footlights on the Frontier,
an original radio player about the boyhood of Joseph Jefferson,
one of the most beloved and captivating actors ever seen
on the American stage. Now we continue our story.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Well, that day long as old drag gone and on,
and nothing happened, Why mister Featherstone once said it might.
By the next morning, I was beginning to think that
Miss Betsy Jikes had been talking hot air as the saying.
When then I heard Pa calling me Jesiph. I knew
something was wrong. He was calling me Joseph.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And a gentleman on the town council by the name
of mister Jikes informs me that you enticed several young
ladies of Springfield into our theater and ask them to
recite for you.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Is that frue.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I didn't Entyle, I just put a sign up.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
By what right do you take it upon yourself to
manage the affairs of my company?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
I only did it to help. I thought i'd.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
Surprise you did, Joseph. Thanks to you, we've lost our permit.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Oh gee, honest? Yes, oh Dad, I'm sorry, Josh. I
didn't need it. Is there anything I can do?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Son, you can go out and take down the playbills
announcing the opening of the.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
New Jefferson Fifth and Springfield.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I you turrible about pa.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I suppose I feel I've got to tell your mother.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Like all men, I've had my share of difficult days,
but I can't ever remember one as bad as that.
Every time I pulled one of our playbuildings or a
barn wall, it was like taking a piece off my hide. Finally,
when I was off where I thought nobody'd see me,
I really let go and cried enough tears to work
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the rain effect in Romulus the Shepherd King.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
What's the trouble Boy?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I looked up to see the tallest, skinniest, ugliest man
I ever saw my whole life. But here's the funny part.
I never saw a face I liked better. Something eating you?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Boy?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
I'm sorry? Boy?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Like this, well, everybody's got to cry some everybody don't tear,
Stay in and you're insides rust I never trust a
man who can't cry or a man who can't laugh.
You can cry, all right?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
I can laugh too, can you not? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Are you with the play actors opening up here Friday night?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Yep? Oh we ain't opening.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
You ain't And it's all my fault.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You suppose you tell me about it? Boy?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
So between my sobs, I got the whole story out.
Then the stranger asked me a lot of questions who
I was?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Did I like play acting?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And why?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
And a lot of things like that.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
None of them seem to have anything to do with
getting our permit back.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Either, Joe, What do you need to get your permit back?
Is a good lawyer?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Where can we find with?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Right here? I'd be my pleased to take your case.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
A campaign A liar, mister, Don't you worry about that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All I want is to see you get a fair deal.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Gee, thanks, mister.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Only one thing I want you to do for me, Joe?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well? Seeing we're going in this case together, I wanna
be sure you're the kind of fella I can trust.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Eh.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Let me hear you laugh, Joe, Come on, come on,
that's it uh at the night, Laugh Joe, if you do.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
So.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Then the tall man that I went up to where
the town council was meeting, they seem to know him,
and they all seemed to like him, except Betsy Jakes's father,
That is, he looked like the kind of fellow we
didn't like anything. Right away, he was mad because the
lawyer brought me there.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I don't see any call for you to put in.
What are you here for?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Iahow I told him at the Jacks, I'm with the Jefferson's.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Lawyer, and I don't see mister Jefferson, I.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Mean, young mister Jefferson here, sail old old how do
you do it? And now Joe feels mighty bad cause
you gentlemen, of taking the permit away from.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
His paw and his pie. Gonna get it back? He said,
we don't want no play actors in this.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Town, you know, with the Jakes the gentleman of the consul,
I am reminded of a dog a friend of mine
had who lived on buttermilk. That dog wouldn't so much
as touch a bone but she laughed up buttermilk by
the churnful, nice, peaceful, friendly dog too, except for one thing.
Just let her see some other dog nowing on a
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bone and she'd go plumb crazy. She didn't like moon.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
She wasn't gonna let her a dog tam.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
If you ask me, I think we ought to have
a little more sense than that old dog. Now there
was another thing.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, the stranger went on talking, and I never heard
his equal anywhere.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
It wasn't that he.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Talked louder or softer, or used bigger words than other folks.
It was that he he somehow made everything he said
seem truer than anybody else could make it. He could
have said the moon was made of pie crust and
we'd all have believed it.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
But he didn't talk about the moon.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
He talked about me first, and how I caused all
the trouble because I wanted to help my par Then
he told how we all came that hard way out
to Illinois doing our plays for folks, how we'd play
any place there was. He got them interested, then he
got them smiling, And when he got around telling about
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the time we did Hamlet in the Bond with the
pig pen underneath. They all got laughing right out in
the louds.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
So instead of hammers following at their crime swear from
beneath the stage, those fogs went quick. They were more
severe speptics of the drama, and Melita to jail.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Evil and the stranger got there talking about plays under
the how they first happened to directed why he knew
more about it than pay. He told about the Greeks,
about how the actors messed up like gods and spoke
words even gods would be proud to speak. And he
(22:59):
told how in the Ages people were ignorant, and the
priests to teach them came before their altars and acted
out the stories of the birth and the death and
the rising up again of Lord Jesus. And he told
of Shakespeare, who wasn't only the sweetest writer of them all,
(23:20):
but a play actor too, just like par Me. Somehow
it made me proud the way.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
He said it.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Then all of a sudden he stopped talking and turned
to me.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
When I could talk to you about why we should
allow these play actors in Springfield, pill had dropped, and
I couldn't say it as well as Joel here says
me a while back, Joel, I want you to repeat
for these gentlemen what you said to me about why
you loved acting.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Do you mean about the audience, I mean about the audience. Well,
if the praise good. They always looked so happy, if
somebody had given him a wonderful present or something. And
it's a nice feeling to be able to do that
for people, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
We rest our case.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Well, the council voted, and after a few days we
got a permit, and what an opening night we had.
And that night before mar sang her big solo, she
stepped down to the footlights and made an announcement.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Ladies and gentlemen, with your kind permission, I shallall gratefully
dedicate the singing of my song to that young lawyer,
without whom we could not be playing here in Springfield tonight,
mister a Lincoln.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Loser to be.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
That was a long time of ago, but I can
still hear the.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Voices which didn't.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
If I hadn't Joe, I wouldn't have been able to
see the play tonight. I'm like you, I love good
Little I'd love to go to.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
See to our star Walter Hamden, to Avan Curry, and
(26:06):
the Cavalcade players are thanks for tonight's play footllights on
the frontier. On this occasion, may we extend our special
congratulations to mister Hamden, whose birthday is being celebrated.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
This month, and whose distinguished.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Career in the Ammerican theater to serve as an inspiration
to those young players who hope.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
To follow the the acting profession.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
As president of the Players Club in New York City,
mister Hamden.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Succeeded the Pilot Three as actors.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Of another day and age, and may we express the
hope that for many years to come he could continue
the tradition of Edwin Booth, John Drulu and Joseph je Jefferson.
Now be Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Now here's a reminder for Dad about that car, new
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Speaker 7 (27:40):
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They are efficient and trustworthy. They are DuPont Better Things
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Speaker 5 (28:12):
To Night's cavalcade play Footlights.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
On the Frontier was written by Frank Gabrielson, appearing with
mister Hampden and Master Curry, where Agnes Young, his mother,
Stop Scottsworth, his father, John Griggs his featherstone.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
And Bill Adams at Abe Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
The music for the DuPont Cavalcades composed by Hard and Cornwell,
conducted by Donald Gorrie.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
This is Ed Pearson speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Next week, Cavalcade will present the popular Broadway and the
Hollywood star Ralph Bellamy, our story Riding Shotgun. It's an
exciting drama of suspense and romance on the Western Frontier.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Be sure to join us next.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Week for Cavalcade and our Star Ralph Bellamy.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Cavalcade of America's, directed by John Zeller, comes to you
each week the stage of the long Acre Theater on
Broadway in.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
New York and is presented by.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
The DuPont Company of Woman's in Delaware.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Presented by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware, h
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