February 15, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
The DuPont Company of Wlolmington, Delaware, makers of Better Things
for her Living through Chemistry, presents The Cavalcade of America
Tonight's Players, based on one of America's greatest classics, Life
on the Mississippi. Tonight's star Raymond Massey, who, as Mark Twain,
talks of the days long before he became a well
known writer of the days when he was young, Sam clements.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When I was born, there was but one permanent ambition
among my comrades and our village on the Mississippi. That
was to be a steamboatman. And the grandest position of
war was pilot. But it was not long before I
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discovered that to become a licensed pilot was about as
simple as to become a bank president. If I learned it,
before I could ever presume to steer a steamboat, I
would have first to serve a term as an apprentice,
a cub they called it, to an experienced pilot. Also,
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I learned that mister Horace Bixby, if the Paul Jones,
was one of the finest pilots on the river. I
took myself up to the pilot's house, opened the door,
and walked in. That was a long time ago. I
was only nineteen, but I remembered as though it was yesterday, Sir, sir, eh,
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what is it?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Would you like a young man for a cub to
learn piloting?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I would not, nor do I like passengers in my
pilot house, But sir, i'd be your mind.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You shut the door tight on your way out.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
H Yes, sir, Now this was scarcely an auspicious beginning,
but I was stubborn, and I began to lay siege
to mister Bixby. If I couldn't go in the pilot house,
at least I could look in through the windows. And
at last, after three days of my relentless stearing, he
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motioned me in.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yes, look Bixby, please, boy, will you take the evil
eye off me?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I don't want to take a coup. They're more trouble
than their works.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But I wouldn't want much wages, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
For wages, you wouldn't want much wages? Are you out
of your head? Why you got a pay to be
a cob pay?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You mean you didn't know that, No.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Sir, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Why a pilot will consider taking a couple of less
than five hundred dollars cash and the bare five hundred
better go home. Go home first and get yourself a
job and earn some money.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Maybe your father will give it to you. No, my
father's dead, sir, he died ten years ago. Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
What's your name, son, Sam Clemens from Hannimal your mother
in law? Yes, but she couldn't give me the money
I've been sending her.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh no, son, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Sure I could pay you.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
One hundred dollars now and the rest from her ernest after.
I'm a pilot, that is.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If you'd all right.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But sir, I could.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I said, all right, I'll learn your pilot in from
New Orleans to similarly.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
On the term you propose.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
But I don't understand I so sure I do either
just a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Anyway, you're going to be my cop.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So I became a pilot's cub, and I ended up
in the enterprise of learning my trade with the easy
confidence of my time of life. It seemed to me
that all a pilot had to do was to keep
your boat in the river, and it didn't appear to
me to be too much of a trick, the river
being so wide, at least, so I supposed as we
headed up river from New Orleans, mister Bixby at the wheel,
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and I beside him. Now and then he called my
attention to the passing landscape. And for a while I
found it an agreeable my way to pass the time.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This now is six mile point. That's all.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Knows.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
This was pleasant enough information. But after I had seen
nine mile point and twelve mile point and so on,
I began to wish we might talk about history, or
even Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But no, is he the slack water in here? A rest?
This trump of China tree. So we crossed to the
other side.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So we cross seems simping now, But later that night,
on our second watch, I was to hand something of
a disillusionment.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Now, what's the first point about New Orleans?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The first point? Golly, I don't know. You don't know,
and you're a smart one.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What's the name of the next point? Why?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I don't know, sir?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Where this speech anything?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Look here?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
What do you start out from above twelve mile point
to cross over?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I don't know, sir, You don't What do you know?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I I well nothing. I guess for certain, our great
Caesar's ghost.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I believe you you're the stupidest thunderhead I ever saw
or heard of.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
The help me Moses, the idea, the.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Idea of you being a pilot? You why you don't
know enough to pilot a cow down the lane?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh, but his wrath was up.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He shuffled inside of his wheel to the other, as
if the floor was hut. He would boil a wiut
to himself and then overflow and scald me again.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Her Here, what the chapples? I told you?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The name of those points are.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well to to be entertaining.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I thought, such an eruption followed, as I never had heard,
nor ever wish to hear again. But after about twenty
minutes he was finally mt it, and presently he said
to me in the gender's way, my boy.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You must get our little memorandum book, and every time
I tell you a thing, put it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Down right away. Yes, sir, there's only one way to
be a pilot, and that's to get this entire river
by a heart. Why you have to know it just
like your A. B.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
C's Ah. Now, this was a dismal revelation, But I've
got a notebook, and by the time we reached the
louis fairly bristle with the names of the town's points
by island bens. But it was all in the notebook
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and not in my head.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Boy, you remember waling that bend?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh yes, sir, watch the shape of it? The shape why.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Why it just bends? Doesn't have any particular shape.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No shape, vercord. The river's got a sheep, and you've
got to know it by hard.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
How else are you gonna steer on a pitch black knight,
a pitch black knight.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Have you ever come home late and gone down the hall.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Without a light?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yes, sir, But I how did you follow your haul
that you couldn't see it, but you knew the shape
of it?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You mean?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You mean?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I've got to know all the millions of variations of
shape in the banks of this interminable river, just as
well as I know the shape of our front.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
All at home work better, much better?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Well, And mister Bixby, if it's all the scene to you,
I'm going to retire from this business. I haven't got
brains to be a pilot, and if I had, I
wouldn't have strength enough to carry him around left on
crutch it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I'll drop that when I say I'll learn a man
in the river. I mean it, and you can depend
on it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'll learn him or I'll kill it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, there was new he was arguing with a person
like this. Slowly I began to learn the fins and
the snags and the bars, and the river's shape day
and night. And I even remembered the depth sound and
the ledsman called out to it from the bow when
we were in shallow water. And with all this knowledge,
I suppose I got full of false confidence and false
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the courage, at least, mister Bixby thought so.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It was on a matchless summer's day, and I was
at the wheel, folding down the bend above island sixty six,
brim full of self conceit, and carrying my nose as
high as a g raft, when mister Bixby said, er,
I'm gone ball.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I suppose you know the next crossing.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This was almost in a front. It was about the
simplest crossing in the whole river, and bottomless beside know it.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I can run it with my shirt, How deep is it?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I couldn't get bottom there With the church people, you were,
thank soul?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Do you The very tone of his question shook my contest.
He left without another word, and I began to imagine
all kinds of things. Presently, the Captain stepped out on
the hurricane deck, next the Chief Meat, appearing in a clerk.
Pretty soon they were twenty people down there under my nose,
muttering to each other and glancing up at me worried. Finally,
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the captain said, Sam, where's mister Bixbon's up?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
He's gone below, Sir Contlon.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
On this crossing, I did it for all at once,
I imagined. I saw shallow water ahead, and remnant of
my confidence in that crossing vanish. I grabbed the bell
rope to signal for the lead, and then I dropped
it machine, and then seized it again and pulled it
se feebly. I could hardly hear the stroke myself, but
the Captain did.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
That's your sheard on air stop board lead, and work
about it.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
They falling off ground.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
This was all the conformation my fears needed. I began
to climb the wheel like a squirrel. Then came the
Leedsbond's suffolk little cry or a twin in a bottomless crossing.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
We were going to grow quickly. I grabbed the bell rope.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And stopped the engine. We would drifted to disaster, and
I did not know what in the world to do.
I could have hung my head on my eyes. They
stuck out so far nine and a half and we
were drawing nine feet. The last desperate effort to save
the ship, I flew to the speaking tube and shouted
down to the engineers, Oh Ben, if.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You love me back? A quick ben, oh baty, you
want a soul out of it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Then I heard the pilot house door close and I turned.
Then there stood mister Dixon, smiled in a bland, sweet smile,
and then from the audience below came a humiliating Sunday
gust of last. I thought, oh, now they've played a
trick on me, and everybody was in on it.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And didn't you know there was no bottom in that crossing?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yes I did.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And you shouldn't have let me, or the captain or
the ledsman or anyone shake your confidence in that knowledge,
I understand.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It was good enough lesson, but pretty hardly learned. And
for months I had to hear a phrase which I
came to conceive a particular dislike for it was oh Ben,
if you love me back. But despite his impatience and
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his constant Badin and his low down, steady tricks. Oh,
perhaps even because of them, but there was no meanness
in the man. I came to have a deep respect
for mister Bixby. Perhaps it was not having a father
of my own. And it was a black day for
me when he left the work on the Missouri for
a spell and we said goodbye.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
On this Saint Louis Landers.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I've arranged for you to go with mister Brown. Not
too easy a man, but a fine pilot. You will
get along, yes, sir, I don't behave his health now?
And uh hey, goodbye, sir.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Please tell me the truth. Will I have a makeup pilot,
a good pilot?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Why come to think a bit boy?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yes, I believe you will.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And he walked away, thinking back now, I think those
were the grandest words, these ears I've ever heard. I
was happy then, thinking the worst was behind me. It
never occurred to me that it was still ahead.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
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through chemistry. Now we return to our Cavalcade story Life
from the Mississippi, starring as Mark Twain, determined to become
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a Mississippi River pilot. Young Sam Clemens has been serving
as a cub to mister Bixby, but with Bixby away
on the Missouri, Sam has been put with another pilot.
Now Mark Twain continues his story.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Shortly, I went aboard the steam of Pennsylvania, finding news ship.
In the pilot house, I met the gentleman I was
to serve under. He was quite a come down after
mister Bixby his name was miss Brown, and he was
a middle a long, slim, bony, smooth shaven horse face, ignorant, stingy, milicious, snarling,
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fort hunting, won't magnify and tyrant.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Or stakes fish coup.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What's your name?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Sam Clemenser, sam Clemens, Eh, sam Clemenson?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Eh?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Where if I'm Sam Clemens Hannibal Eh?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Turnshake berty? Stayed there where?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
You don't stand there all day? I've had no order, sir,
You've had no orders. Man?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What a fine bird we are?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well here they get ice figure down, fell her up sake?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Wait about it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So I did that it dead run and the moment
I got back, what are you.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Doing down there? All this time?
Speaker 9 (16:37):
There? Flit up?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The show go go down?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Next shovel turned this numb skull leversoult So it went
watch after watch for months. No matter what I did,
it was.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sitting to be wrong, and mister Brown would spit out
his venom on me. My only consolation aboard the Pennsylvania
was having my younger brother, Henry along. I'd got him
on as third clerk. Henry was a handsome, bright, gentle.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Well like boy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I would proud to be his brother. And the night
when I was off duty. We'd sit out on deck
under the sties and listen to the songs of the river. Sam.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Huh, I've been meaning to ask you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You giving up.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Your idea of being a writer.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You know I liked those little squibs and sketches you
used to write.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Truly, it is quiet, thanks, Henry. But no, I'm going
to be a pilot.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
But maybe you got a talent, Sam, Maybe it's wrong
to waste.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, you ership here all night.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Damn go watchet underhead.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Oh no, someday, Henry, something's going to happen between mister
Brown and me.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yes, sir, something's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Something did happen. About three trips later, I was alongside
mister Brown in the pilot house and Henry came out
on a hurricane dack just below us.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Mister Brown, sir, the captain wants.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You to stop a pierc's landing.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now. Mister Brown gave no intimation that he heard, but
that was his way. He was little deaf, and maybe
he hadn't or maybe he had. Anyway, I kept stilling. Presently,
we was sailing past his landing, and the captain hurried
out on.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Deck let her come around, sir, Let her come around.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Henry tell you to land here? Oh sure he didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You didn't, Sam, Did you hear him?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yes, sir, I did judge.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Your mouth never heard anything of the kind.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I closed my mouth for instructions, and then our lady
Henry came into the pilot house unaware of what had happened.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Here you, why don't you kill me? We've got the
land I did tell you, mister Brown, You lie yourself.
He did tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
For a long moment, mister Brown was speechless, and his
face got red as fire, and every muscle in it
was working.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Drinker, you have a minute, and then get out of
my pilot house. Get out.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Henry obeyed and started out when Brown, with a sudden
excess of fury, picked up the five pound lump of
coal and started after him. Before I could think, I
was between him, my fist flying here.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
No, did you did get away with me? Why did
hand drump cuban asking for it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Mister Brown?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
For it?
Speaker 8 (19:45):
My golly, you gonna have a you got it?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You're notsy down?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Let me hands just coming?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh my gosh, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Capt know?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I want this boy for a shore minute?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We crushed orange. But I'll never turn a wheel again
on this book.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Did you hear?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Follow me?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I followed without a word. He led the way to
his parlor. We went in. He shut the door, sat down.
I stood before.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Him, Sam, this is a very serious matter.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Are you aware that this boat was plowing down river
with no one at the wheel?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, sir, you strike him first.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Did you knock him down?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
He fell? Sir?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Did you do anything further?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I pounded him, sir, M.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Did you pound him much? That is severely?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
One might call it that, sir. I'm choosing to glad
of it. Huh.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Now, mind you don't ever do it again on this boat.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But lay for him, ashore, give him a good sound
thrash dear.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, sir, Now you think you're ready to stand watched
by yourself? If you are, Brown can leave.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
The ship well, sir, I no, I don't think I
am ready, not yet.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'm sorry you'll have to leave us then from New Orleans.
But I'll arrange passage to Saint Louis and I'll see
that you get another pilot.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
To work under. Thank you, sir. I'll clear out with you.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Not a word of this to anybody.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You've been killed a great crime.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're welcome, but remember now lay for a mashore. Well
left the Pennsylvania New Orleans. Henry was staying aboard, So
while the cotton heavers loaded the cargo, we sat on
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a freight pile at the waterfront and said goodbye.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I'm truly sorry Sam that.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You lost your poles call.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
But maybe it's for the best.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Maybe you'll go back here writing now now drop that,
will you?
Speaker 11 (22:20):
But you've got a talent, Sam, Why even mister Bigsby
says so Bixby?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Bixby said, when.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
There was a fellow on the boat just down from
the Missouri. And what, Sam, didn't you say that Vixby
wants something like I haven't got brains to be a pilot,
and if I had, I wouldn't have strength enough to
carry him around except on crutches, didn't you Sam?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Where I Fixby remembered that this fellow heard.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
It from Bixby.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Seems like Visby is always kind of breaking about you
and the way you have to putting things and all
you do.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Sam, And you ought to now drop that. I said, Henry,
I'm gonna I'll be a pirate, and that's that.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, you say, Sam.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
As you say.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Henry boarded the Pennsylvania and she started north the next morning.
The day after, I boarded another ship for Saint Louis.
A couple of days out we touched at Greenville, Mississippi.
Somebody on shore was shouting, you.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Haven't used the Pennsylvania for work at Chief.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Art under the desk alive flaw.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That was all I knew, except that the survivors had
been taking the Memphis and there. Two days later I
arrived and found my brother Henry in the hospital. His
hurts passed held, and soon while I set beside him,
he died. Henry claimed, aged nineteen, he who never had
harmed the living soul. In due course I got my license.
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I was a pilot, now full fledged. I was a
satisfactory pilot, I think. But by and by the Civil
War came along, and overnight my occupation was gone. Soon
I became a silver miner in Nevada, and then followed
an entire procession of occupation.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Now I am.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
A scribbler of books, and it is twenty years since
our last looked from the windows of pilot house. But
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often now I steal away in my mind and return
to my beloved river. It is nice, with only a
sprinkling of stars to light our way. I stand at
the wheel guide in the vessel, mindful of the passengers
who lie asleep below, like trusting children. Sometimes in my memory,
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my brother stands at my side. Oh, Henry, how I
mischief all these years under me? The engine mumbles softly
behind me, The paddles are endlessly dipping into the muddy water,
and then faintly comes the lonely whistle of a steamboat
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by upstream. It is thus, in these busy, hectic days,
that I return in memory to the life I love,
to the life that never more will be, to life
on the Mississippi.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Our Thanks for Raymond Massey and mcavalcape players for tonight's
true story, and now Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company.
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Speaker 2 (27:47):
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Speaker 2 (28:23):
Delights.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Dupon Cavalcade was written by Warner Law and was adapted
from the story Life on the Mississippi by the late
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Klain, published by Harper and Brothers.
Original music was composed by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Bories.
The program was directed by John Zeller, with our star
Raymond Masseure heard Jeffrey Bryant as young Sam Clemens and
Charles Stingle at fixby miss Issi Harris reminding you to
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be with us next week whether the DuPont Cavalcade will
present Star and Shield, a delightful story of a New
Jersey policeman and a little five year old girl who
won his heart our star Roderick Crawford and featuring a
five year old actress Aileen Merry. Be sure to listen
the Department.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Avocative America came from the Glasgow Theater in New York
City and is sponsored by the depart Company of Summington, Delaware,
makers of Better Things for better living through chemistry.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Tonight just for laughs.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Listen to Red Skelton on NBC.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Laughs.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Listen to Red Skelton on NBC
The DuPont Company of Wlolmington, Delaware, makers of Better Things
for her Living through Chemistry, presents The Cavalcade of America
Tonight's Players, based on one of America's greatest classics, Life
on the Mississippi. Tonight's star Raymond Massey, who, as Mark Twain,
talks of the days long before he became a well
known writer of the days when he was young, Sam clements.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When I was born, there was but one permanent ambition
among my comrades and our village on the Mississippi. That
was to be a steamboatman. And the grandest position of
war was pilot. But it was not long before I
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discovered that to become a licensed pilot was about as
simple as to become a bank president. If I learned it,
before I could ever presume to steer a steamboat, I
would have first to serve a term as an apprentice,
a cub they called it, to an experienced pilot. Also,
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I learned that mister Horace Bixby, if the Paul Jones,
was one of the finest pilots on the river. I
took myself up to the pilot's house, opened the door,
and walked in. That was a long time ago. I
was only nineteen, but I remembered as though it was yesterday, Sir, sir, eh,
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what is it?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Would you like a young man for a cub to
learn piloting?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I would not, nor do I like passengers in my
pilot house, But sir, i'd be your mind.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You shut the door tight on your way out.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
H Yes, sir, Now this was scarcely an auspicious beginning,
but I was stubborn, and I began to lay siege
to mister Bixby. If I couldn't go in the pilot house,
at least I could look in through the windows. And
at last, after three days of my relentless stearing, he
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motioned me in.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yes, look Bixby, please, boy, will you take the evil
eye off me?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I don't want to take a coup. They're more trouble
than their works.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But I wouldn't want much wages, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
For wages, you wouldn't want much wages? Are you out
of your head? Why you got a pay to be
a cob pay?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You mean you didn't know that, No.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Sir, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Why a pilot will consider taking a couple of less
than five hundred dollars cash and the bare five hundred
better go home. Go home first and get yourself a
job and earn some money.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Maybe your father will give it to you. No, my
father's dead, sir, he died ten years ago. Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
What's your name, son, Sam Clemens from Hannimal your mother
in law? Yes, but she couldn't give me the money
I've been sending her.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh no, son, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Sure I could pay you.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
One hundred dollars now and the rest from her ernest after.
I'm a pilot, that is.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
If you'd all right.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But sir, I could.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I said, all right, I'll learn your pilot in from
New Orleans to similarly.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
On the term you propose.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
But I don't understand I so sure I do either
just a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Anyway, you're going to be my cop.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So I became a pilot's cub, and I ended up
in the enterprise of learning my trade with the easy
confidence of my time of life. It seemed to me
that all a pilot had to do was to keep
your boat in the river, and it didn't appear to
me to be too much of a trick, the river
being so wide, at least, so I supposed as we
headed up river from New Orleans, mister Bixby at the wheel,
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and I beside him. Now and then he called my
attention to the passing landscape. And for a while I
found it an agreeable my way to pass the time.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This now is six mile point. That's all.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Knows.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
This was pleasant enough information. But after I had seen
nine mile point and twelve mile point and so on,
I began to wish we might talk about history, or
even Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But no, is he the slack water in here? A rest?
This trump of China tree. So we crossed to the
other side.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So we cross seems simping now, But later that night,
on our second watch, I was to hand something of
a disillusionment.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Now, what's the first point about New Orleans?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The first point? Golly, I don't know. You don't know,
and you're a smart one.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What's the name of the next point? Why?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I don't know, sir?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Where this speech anything?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Look here?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
What do you start out from above twelve mile point
to cross over?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I don't know, sir, You don't What do you know?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I I well nothing. I guess for certain, our great
Caesar's ghost.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I believe you you're the stupidest thunderhead I ever saw
or heard of.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
The help me Moses, the idea, the.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Idea of you being a pilot? You why you don't
know enough to pilot a cow down the lane?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh, but his wrath was up.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He shuffled inside of his wheel to the other, as
if the floor was hut. He would boil a wiut
to himself and then overflow and scald me again.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Her Here, what the chapples? I told you?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The name of those points are.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well to to be entertaining.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I thought, such an eruption followed, as I never had heard,
nor ever wish to hear again. But after about twenty
minutes he was finally mt it, and presently he said
to me in the gender's way, my boy.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You must get our little memorandum book, and every time
I tell you a thing, put it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Down right away. Yes, sir, there's only one way to
be a pilot, and that's to get this entire river
by a heart. Why you have to know it just
like your A. B.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
C's Ah. Now, this was a dismal revelation, But I've
got a notebook, and by the time we reached the
louis fairly bristle with the names of the town's points
by island bens. But it was all in the notebook
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and not in my head.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Boy, you remember waling that bend?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh yes, sir, watch the shape of it? The shape why.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Why it just bends? Doesn't have any particular shape.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No shape, vercord. The river's got a sheep, and you've
got to know it by hard.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
How else are you gonna steer on a pitch black knight,
a pitch black knight.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Have you ever come home late and gone down the hall.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Without a light?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yes, sir, But I how did you follow your haul
that you couldn't see it, but you knew the shape
of it?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You mean?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You mean?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I've got to know all the millions of variations of
shape in the banks of this interminable river, just as
well as I know the shape of our front.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
All at home work better, much better?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Well, And mister Bixby, if it's all the scene to you,
I'm going to retire from this business. I haven't got
brains to be a pilot, and if I had, I
wouldn't have strength enough to carry him around left on
crutch it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I'll drop that when I say I'll learn a man
in the river. I mean it, and you can depend
on it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I'll learn him or I'll kill it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, there was new he was arguing with a person
like this. Slowly I began to learn the fins and
the snags and the bars, and the river's shape day
and night. And I even remembered the depth sound and
the ledsman called out to it from the bow when
we were in shallow water. And with all this knowledge,
I suppose I got full of false confidence and false
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the courage, at least, mister Bixby thought so.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It was on a matchless summer's day, and I was
at the wheel, folding down the bend above island sixty six,
brim full of self conceit, and carrying my nose as
high as a g raft, when mister Bixby said, er,
I'm gone ball.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I suppose you know the next crossing.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This was almost in a front. It was about the
simplest crossing in the whole river, and bottomless beside know it.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I can run it with my shirt, How deep is it?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I couldn't get bottom there With the church people, you were,
thank soul?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Do you The very tone of his question shook my contest.
He left without another word, and I began to imagine
all kinds of things. Presently, the Captain stepped out on
the hurricane deck, next the Chief Meat, appearing in a clerk.
Pretty soon they were twenty people down there under my nose,
muttering to each other and glancing up at me worried. Finally,
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the captain said, Sam, where's mister Bixbon's up?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
He's gone below, Sir Contlon.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
On this crossing, I did it for all at once,
I imagined. I saw shallow water ahead, and remnant of
my confidence in that crossing vanish. I grabbed the bell
rope to signal for the lead, and then I dropped
it machine, and then seized it again and pulled it
se feebly. I could hardly hear the stroke myself, but
the Captain did.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
That's your sheard on air stop board lead, and work
about it.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
They falling off ground.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
This was all the conformation my fears needed. I began
to climb the wheel like a squirrel. Then came the
Leedsbond's suffolk little cry or a twin in a bottomless crossing.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
We were going to grow quickly. I grabbed the bell rope.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And stopped the engine. We would drifted to disaster, and
I did not know what in the world to do.
I could have hung my head on my eyes. They
stuck out so far nine and a half and we
were drawing nine feet. The last desperate effort to save
the ship, I flew to the speaking tube and shouted
down to the engineers, Oh Ben, if.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You love me back? A quick ben, oh baty, you
want a soul out of it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Then I heard the pilot house door close and I turned.
Then there stood mister Dixon, smiled in a bland, sweet smile,
and then from the audience below came a humiliating Sunday
gust of last. I thought, oh, now they've played a
trick on me, and everybody was in on it.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And didn't you know there was no bottom in that crossing?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yes I did.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And you shouldn't have let me, or the captain or
the ledsman or anyone shake your confidence in that knowledge,
I understand.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It was good enough lesson, but pretty hardly learned. And
for months I had to hear a phrase which I
came to conceive a particular dislike for it was oh Ben,
if you love me back. But despite his impatience and
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his constant Badin and his low down, steady tricks. Oh,
perhaps even because of them, but there was no meanness
in the man. I came to have a deep respect
for mister Bixby. Perhaps it was not having a father
of my own. And it was a black day for
me when he left the work on the Missouri for
a spell and we said goodbye.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
On this Saint Louis Landers.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I've arranged for you to go with mister Brown. Not
too easy a man, but a fine pilot. You will
get along, yes, sir, I don't behave his health now?
And uh hey, goodbye, sir.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Please tell me the truth. Will I have a makeup pilot,
a good pilot?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Why come to think a bit boy?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yes, I believe you will.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And he walked away, thinking back now, I think those
were the grandest words, these ears I've ever heard. I
was happy then, thinking the worst was behind me. It
never occurred to me that it was still ahead.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
You are listening to the Dupump Capalcade of America starring
Raymond Massey, oh Bill Hamilton, speaking for the DuPont Company.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Selecting a career is always a big decision for a
high school graduate. There are many things he wants to
know and should know about any career he is considering.
For high school students who ask, shall I study chemistry?
The American Chemical Society has published a helpful booklet. It
tells what chemists do what.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
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Speaker 1 (14:25):
If you would like a free copy, right to DuPont Cavalcade, Wilmington, Delaware.
Ask for the booklet, Shall I study Chemistry? In answer
to this question, DuPont hopes an increasing number of students
will answer yes. DuPont depends upon today's chemistry students to
help in bringing you tomorrow's better things for better living
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through chemistry. Now we return to our Cavalcade story Life
from the Mississippi, starring as Mark Twain, determined to become
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a Mississippi River pilot. Young Sam Clemens has been serving
as a cub to mister Bixby, but with Bixby away
on the Missouri, Sam has been put with another pilot.
Now Mark Twain continues his story.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Shortly, I went aboard the steam of Pennsylvania, finding news ship.
In the pilot house, I met the gentleman I was
to serve under. He was quite a come down after
mister Bixby his name was miss Brown, and he was
a middle a long, slim, bony, smooth shaven horse face, ignorant, stingy, milicious, snarling,
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fort hunting, won't magnify and tyrant.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Or stakes fish coup.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What's your name?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Sam Clemenser, sam Clemens, Eh, sam Clemenson?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Eh?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Where if I'm Sam Clemens Hannibal Eh?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Turnshake berty? Stayed there where?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
You don't stand there all day? I've had no order, sir,
You've had no orders. Man?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
What a fine bird we are?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well here they get ice figure down, fell her up sake?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Wait about it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So I did that it dead run and the moment
I got back, what are you.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Doing down there? All this time?
Speaker 9 (16:37):
There? Flit up?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The show go go down?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Next shovel turned this numb skull leversoult So it went
watch after watch for months. No matter what I did,
it was.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sitting to be wrong, and mister Brown would spit out
his venom on me. My only consolation aboard the Pennsylvania
was having my younger brother, Henry along. I'd got him
on as third clerk. Henry was a handsome, bright, gentle.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Well like boy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I would proud to be his brother. And the night
when I was off duty. We'd sit out on deck
under the sties and listen to the songs of the river. Sam.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Huh, I've been meaning to ask you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You giving up.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Your idea of being a writer.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You know I liked those little squibs and sketches you
used to write.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Truly, it is quiet, thanks, Henry. But no, I'm going
to be a pilot.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
But maybe you got a talent, Sam, Maybe it's wrong
to waste.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, you ership here all night.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Damn go watchet underhead.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Oh no, someday, Henry, something's going to happen between mister
Brown and me.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yes, sir, something's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Something did happen. About three trips later, I was alongside
mister Brown in the pilot house and Henry came out
on a hurricane dack just below us.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Mister Brown, sir, the captain wants.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You to stop a pierc's landing.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now. Mister Brown gave no intimation that he heard, but
that was his way. He was little deaf, and maybe
he hadn't or maybe he had. Anyway, I kept stilling. Presently,
we was sailing past his landing, and the captain hurried
out on.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Deck let her come around, sir, Let her come around.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Henry tell you to land here? Oh sure he didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You didn't, Sam, Did you hear him?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yes, sir, I did judge.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Your mouth never heard anything of the kind.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I closed my mouth for instructions, and then our lady
Henry came into the pilot house unaware of what had happened.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Here you, why don't you kill me? We've got the
land I did tell you, mister Brown, You lie yourself.
He did tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
For a long moment, mister Brown was speechless, and his
face got red as fire, and every muscle in it
was working.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Drinker, you have a minute, and then get out of
my pilot house. Get out.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Henry obeyed and started out when Brown, with a sudden
excess of fury, picked up the five pound lump of
coal and started after him. Before I could think, I
was between him, my fist flying here.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
No, did you did get away with me? Why did
hand drump cuban asking for it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Mister Brown?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
For it?
Speaker 8 (19:45):
My golly, you gonna have a you got it?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You're notsy down?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Let me hands just coming?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh my gosh, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Capt know?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I want this boy for a shore minute?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We crushed orange. But I'll never turn a wheel again
on this book.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Did you hear?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Follow me?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I followed without a word. He led the way to
his parlor. We went in. He shut the door, sat down.
I stood before.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Him, Sam, this is a very serious matter.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Are you aware that this boat was plowing down river
with no one at the wheel?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, sir, you strike him first.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Did you knock him down?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
He fell? Sir?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Did you do anything further?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I pounded him, sir, M.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Did you pound him much? That is severely?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
One might call it that, sir. I'm choosing to glad
of it. Huh.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Now, mind you don't ever do it again on this boat.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But lay for him, ashore, give him a good sound
thrash dear.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, sir, Now you think you're ready to stand watched
by yourself? If you are, Brown can leave.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
The ship well, sir, I no, I don't think I
am ready, not yet.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'm sorry you'll have to leave us then from New Orleans.
But I'll arrange passage to Saint Louis and I'll see
that you get another pilot.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
To work under. Thank you, sir. I'll clear out with you.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Not a word of this to anybody.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You've been killed a great crime.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're welcome, but remember now lay for a mashore. Well
left the Pennsylvania New Orleans. Henry was staying aboard, So
while the cotton heavers loaded the cargo, we sat on
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a freight pile at the waterfront and said goodbye.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I'm truly sorry Sam that.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You lost your poles call.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
But maybe it's for the best.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Maybe you'll go back here writing now now drop that,
will you?
Speaker 11 (22:20):
But you've got a talent, Sam, Why even mister Bigsby
says so Bixby?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Bixby said, when.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
There was a fellow on the boat just down from
the Missouri. And what, Sam, didn't you say that Vixby
wants something like I haven't got brains to be a pilot,
and if I had, I wouldn't have strength enough to
carry him around except on crutches, didn't you Sam?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Where I Fixby remembered that this fellow heard.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
It from Bixby.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Seems like Visby is always kind of breaking about you
and the way you have to putting things and all
you do.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Sam, And you ought to now drop that. I said, Henry,
I'm gonna I'll be a pirate, and that's that.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, you say, Sam.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
As you say.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Henry boarded the Pennsylvania and she started north the next morning.
The day after, I boarded another ship for Saint Louis.
A couple of days out we touched at Greenville, Mississippi.
Somebody on shore was shouting, you.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Haven't used the Pennsylvania for work at Chief.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Art under the desk alive flaw.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That was all I knew, except that the survivors had
been taking the Memphis and there. Two days later I
arrived and found my brother Henry in the hospital. His
hurts passed held, and soon while I set beside him,
he died. Henry claimed, aged nineteen, he who never had
harmed the living soul. In due course I got my license.
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I was a pilot, now full fledged. I was a
satisfactory pilot, I think. But by and by the Civil
War came along, and overnight my occupation was gone. Soon
I became a silver miner in Nevada, and then followed
an entire procession of occupation.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Now I am.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
A scribbler of books, and it is twenty years since
our last looked from the windows of pilot house. But
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often now I steal away in my mind and return
to my beloved river. It is nice, with only a
sprinkling of stars to light our way. I stand at
the wheel guide in the vessel, mindful of the passengers
who lie asleep below, like trusting children. Sometimes in my memory,
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my brother stands at my side. Oh, Henry, how I
mischief all these years under me? The engine mumbles softly
behind me, The paddles are endlessly dipping into the muddy water,
and then faintly comes the lonely whistle of a steamboat
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by upstream. It is thus, in these busy, hectic days,
that I return in memory to the life I love,
to the life that never more will be, to life
on the Mississippi.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Our Thanks for Raymond Massey and mcavalcape players for tonight's
true story, and now Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Americans love to travel. Each year, million of us take
to the road to see more of this wonderful country
of ours. We keep thousands of service stations, tourist homes,
and restaurants and business as we go from place to place.
And we like to travel in comfort. That's why when
a new item of comfort is invented, we usually find
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a way to make it portable. It's happened to heaters
and radios, for instance, and now it's happening to air conditioning.
At automobile shows. This year, five leading car manufacturers are
offering air conditioning as optional equipment on their latest models.
You'll see quite a few of them this summer. Rolling
along on the hottest day with the windows tightly closed,
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the cars won't look different except for the closed windows.
But if you get close enough, chances are the people
inside will look a lot more comfortable. They'll enjoy temperatures
of their own choosing regardless of how hot it is outside.
They won't have that blown to pieces look that comes
from open windows.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
In these new automobile.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Air conditioning systems, new air is brought constantly inside, filtered
and cooled. The cooling agent is a DuPont Freon fluorinated
hydrocarbon refrigerant, one of the same safe refrigerants used in
modern home refrigerators and freezers. Free On refrigerants are also
used for air conditioning of all types, such as homes,
(27:46):
office buildings, ships.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Buses, and theaters.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Now, the automotive industry has taken steps to make hot
weather driving more comfortable for many years, DuPont has worked
closely with the automotive industry, making special finishes, petroleum chemicals,
anti Free's solutions, plastics fibers, rubber chemicals, and other important products.
The use of free on retrigerates in automobile air conditioning
(28:12):
is one more step in the continuing job of bringing
you to Pont's better things for better living through chemistry.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Delights.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Dupon Cavalcade was written by Warner Law and was adapted
from the story Life on the Mississippi by the late
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Klain, published by Harper and Brothers.
Original music was composed by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Bories.
The program was directed by John Zeller, with our star
Raymond Masseure heard Jeffrey Bryant as young Sam Clemens and
Charles Stingle at fixby miss Issi Harris reminding you to
(28:44):
be with us next week whether the DuPont Cavalcade will
present Star and Shield, a delightful story of a New
Jersey policeman and a little five year old girl who
won his heart our star Roderick Crawford and featuring a
five year old actress Aileen Merry. Be sure to listen
the Department.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Avocative America came from the Glasgow Theater in New York
City and is sponsored by the depart Company of Summington, Delaware,
makers of Better Things for better living through chemistry.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Tonight just for laughs.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Listen to Red Skelton on NBC.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Laughs.
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