April 22, 2025 • 29 mins
This anthology series presents dramatized stories from the world of medicine, highlighting the dedication and challenges faced by healthcare professionals. Each episode offers a glimpse into the human side of medical practice.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Shenley Laboratories, producer of penicillin. Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals presents
the Yon Core theaterre Beyond Core Theater play Tonight, White Angel.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Our star is Virginia Brooks.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
To Night.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Shenley Laboratories presents another and a new series of great
dramatic programs.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Some of our.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Stories are fact the struggles and accomplishments of great men
of medicine.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Others are fiction stories.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Of devotion to an ideal individual.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Heroism or courage.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical
science and progress is not cold in personal research or
pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in
living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's
immortals or the everyday record of service rendered by your
own physicians. Now, White Angel, starring Virginia Bruce as Florence Nightingale.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Lawrence, where are you in here in the library? Mother? Lawrence?
You aren't dressed.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
You forget about the land of dinner?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Father? How can you go to dinner parties with all
these terrible problems in the hospitals?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Lawrence?
Speaker 7 (02:02):
You haven't been reading those reports.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I've brought home.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yes, I have father. What's the cause of these appalling conditions?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Well, for one thing, it seems to be impossible to
get enough nurses.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Now, Florence, we all know that there are aspects of
life that we must all regret. Fortunately we don't have
to encounter them. Now, run up and change your dress, dear.
We're going to be terribly late. Mother. There's a tragedy
on every one of those pages. People are dying for
lack of care. An't you any imagination? Doesn't it call
on you for service and help. I'm only thankful, Florence,
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that I lead a well ordered life in pleasant places
and with beautiful association. But Florence, dear, I can't see
why you should let yourself be come upset. I'm sure
that your father will do everything in his power to
improve matters. You'll forget all about this as soon as
you're married to Charles. But I'm not going to marry Charles.
It's out of the question now.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Now, my dear, you are just a little upset. To night,
things will look differently in the morning.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'm never going to marry any one. Charles is a
very desirable husband. He's handsome, well educated, good family. Charles
is much more than that. Mother. Charles is all the
things I used to dream about when I was a
little girl, all the things any woman would want a
man to be. And if I could limit my life
to the confines of one small world, I would marry Charles,
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and I'm I'm sure i'd be very happy. But I can't.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Why not, Florence, Because I want to.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Do something bigger, something really worthwhile. I want to feel,
when I'm ready to die, that I've contributed something to
the world. You could be a wife and a mother.
What more could any woman be? I'm going to be
a nurse. I'm going to Sweden next week to train. Well, miss,
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how do you like scrubbing floors? So I've done things
I like, Feather, I can't make you are coming all
the way to Starkholm to do this. Are there any
training schools for nurses in England? No minna in England.
They don't teach girls to do anything. Oh what a
wonderful country to live in.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Ladies, you're forgetting the rules of the institution. Work must
be done silently. Come my probationists. I'm wanted by my
patient in room twenty.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I want you to come along, Minna. We just sat
down to eat. You can't eat if your patients need you.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Come girls, This is no time for dardling.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Let me make the bed for you. Missus Arnold, certainly not.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
All you've got to do is look on and learn
all you can.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You're not ready yet for practical work, or we're ready
for us chambermaid works, scrubbing and cleaning and everything else
that's disagreeable.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
A very important rule in nursing is not to chatter.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I carry these sheets downstairs? When may we take charge
of patients.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
After you've learned your ABC's A course of dirty work
makes the best nurses.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Do have some of our comforts, lady.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I am no, thank you, mister Herbert.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
As I was saying, I'd deplore all this revolutionary spirit
on the continent. I do hope that Florence will get
home safer from Stockholm.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Missus Nightingale tells me that she's expected back tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
How her mother must be looking forward to her settling down,
settling down.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Hadn't you heard Florence is determined to become a hospital nurse.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
A hospital nurse. Oh, you're not serious.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
I certainly am, and so is France.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
If she were my daughter, I'd give her a good gripping.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Will imagine mixing with women of the lowest order.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
So far as I'm concerned, I shall cease to know
Miss Nightingale from this moment onwards.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm sorry to hear you say that, my dear, because
I shall admire her more than ever. She sets us
all an example by her courage and independence. Any intelligent
doctor will go out of his way to get hold
of her. Particularly with war brewing on the continent, we
need nurses more than ever. Florence, my dear, what are
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you doing here in the law office? Not thinking of
joining the army?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Are you hello, mister Herbert, Yes I am, if i'll
have me. Father is in with the army board now
he took my application.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Don't be too disappointed if they turn you down.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Why should they do me, Domin, they need me.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Sometimes it's a little hard to get men to admit
that they need women.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, father, I'm sorry, Florence.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
What did they say?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
They said that the medical staff at Scutare was quite
satisfied with the male nurses that they had. They said
the females were appeal to the Frenchman, but not to
Englishmen wouldn't even consider the idea of sending you to Scutari, Florence.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Are they're just being obstinate and out of date.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Perhaps it's just as well, Florence. Think of the hardship
you'd have to go through to get to the Crimea.
It's a long way from London.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
They don't need you, Florence, but they thank you for
your generous offer.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Don't need me father? Look at this article in the Times.
Paula says the sufferings of the sick and wounded are indescribable.
There are no dresses and nurses. There are not sufficient surgeons.
There's not even in linen to make bandages for the wounded.
The wounded were led to believe that everything was ready
which could ease their pain, But it was found that
the commonest appliances of a workhouse sick ward were lacking.
How dare they say they don't need me when they
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need everything and everyone that can help.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I don't know how much weight I can swing with
a board, but I'll be glad to talk to them
for you. If you like, Florence, how would you do that?
If they will send you, It'll mean reorganizing the entire
Army medical system. You would be under the Minister of
State and also under Lord Raglan, who was Commander in chief.
You'd have to work in cooperation with his medical officers.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are you sure you'll be willing to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I'm willing to do anything to help you.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Will see what I can do.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Here.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Have you done any nursing by Miss Nightingale?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Lineup over here?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Please? Have you done any nursing? Well, I should think
I have. I've nursed three husbands on their deathbeds, and
I've worked at Saint Thomas's Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital
and charing Cross Hospital. Sorry, you've been in too many
places for me. Next, yes, Miss Nightingale. But nursing have
you done none? But I've worked hard all my life.
I've looked after a husband and several children. Oh. I
know I'm not really experienced, but I can soon learn.
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I'm willing to do anything. You're willing to go to
Scutari Yes, Miss Nightingale, all right, report to the woman
at the next desk. She will give you the necessary forms. Next. Oh,
your sister Columbus, and you got to Saint Vincent, aren't you. Yes,
I've been in charge of you firmate the content. I'm
willing to do anything it's needed. Thank you, sister. We
shall have plenty for you to do it. Will you
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go over to missus Herbert's table. She's enrolling the nurses.
Miss Nightingale, I'm sorry, we're only interviewing women nurses.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
I'm not a nurse. I'm a cook. I'm a Shepherd
of perform Club. My name is Alexis Swyyeik, and I
would like to join your expedition. I know that for
me also, there's work at Scutari.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I accept your offer most thankfully. You shall be in
charge of the hospital kitchen.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
May I speak to you for a moment, Florence.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Of course, mister Hervey, please.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Florence, here is your letter of introduction to Colonel Hunt.
He's the commanding officer at Scutari around the military discipline. Now, Lawrence,
I understand Colonel Hunt has been advised already that you're coming.
I can't tell you whether he's pleased or not.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm sure he isn't.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
Read that communicator, Doctor Scott, did you ever hear of
such impertinence? What the office it's thinking of sending a
woman here to STI.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Time who is this miss Nightingale, Colonel.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Harm who knows some female busybody?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I imagine she's here mainly in an advisory position.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
What you can advise me about I can't imagine, and
I'm not gonna worry about her. I've always hope while
there's the English channel, she's probably won't get further than Boulogne.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, colonel, that her vote
is doing this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What what hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You are signing?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
This Nightingale too? This one? But we have typhoid cases here.
She wants to be a nurse here.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That counts to prove it.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Why don't you assign her to my hospital until this
typhoid epidemic is over?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We can never tell her this kind of infection. You'd
better tell that to miss Nightingale, so you'll go home
and stay home. I think you're treating her outrageously.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
If you're forgetting yourself softer, Scott, I think NASA leave
for the front immediately, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Orderly, please open those windows. We need some air in here.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Don't do that, mister smell for all of the ve's coming.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
When we've cleaned up everywhere, there will be no more
smells or vermin? Are you the storekeeper?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
What can I do for your miss?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
To begin with? I want a dozen mops, a dozen buckets,
and all the soap, sponges and flore cars you've got.
I want five hundred night shirts, and I'll send the
nurses offer for them in five minutes.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Give me your requisition and I'll see that in due
course it reaches the board of directors.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
A board of directors for a hospital store. Can't you
give me these things yourself? The manner in such hideous discomfortate?
They can't wait another minute.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I'm not allowed to issue anything till it's being fast
by the board.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
I can't go beyond my regulation.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I command you to give them to me.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I've got my orders and I'm going to obey them.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I've got my orders too, And when my nurses arrive here,
you'd better give the nurse supplies.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I've come to make a complaint against miss Nightingale.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Sir, what's she's done?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
She's stolen five hundred churchs and a good many other things.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Sir.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
He was broken with a bunch of nurses and took them,
and you let her. I can't fight women, sir, Well,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'm glad you came in, Miss Nightingdale. I wanted to
talk to you.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I wanted to talk to you. You've avoided me since
the moment of my arrival. I hope what I'm going
to say maybe for the good of the common cause
we both serve.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You don't have a stand.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm an army officer, I know, and I'm a nurse.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
But I think it would be for the benefit of
a sick and wounded if we could talk openly to
one another.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What is it you want to say, Colonel Hunt?
Speaker 5 (13:04):
What makes you show this animosity towards me?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It's Nightingale.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I appreciate the frankness of your question.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I not opposed to you as a person, but.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I object to the idea of women nurses to the army.
And why do you object? You make the men soft.
Soldiers don't need to be cuddled by a lot of women.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
We don't cuddle the soldiers. We try to make their
pitiful state easier to bear.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
There's nothing the pity. It's part of a soldier's.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Life, Colonel Hunt. Have you ever been sick or wounded?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And I know what a man can stand.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Is there no possibility of an understanding between us none whatever.
Speaker 11 (13:40):
I warn you that if you show any further insubordination,
I shall have you court martials.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Colonel Hunt, I'm here to work simply and solely for
the benefit of the soldiers. I shall continue to do
so in any way that it is necessary.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
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Speaker 10 (15:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The second act of White Angel, starring Virginia Bruce as
Florence Nightingale.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
During the weeks that followed, she became a legend. The
soldiers that she nursed idolized her, and so did people
all over the world who read and.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Heard of her work.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
In America, a man named Longfellow wrote her poems and
in the writing gave her a title that would live forever,
The Lady with the Lamb. She became a goddess of
life and healing. To Officer Infantryman, Drummer boy.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
A snighting Chale, here I am, Tommy. I'll sit by
your better moment, shall I? Oh my? What's the matter, Tommy?
You're usually in much better spirits.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
The doctor told him that he won't live until tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Miss I shan't find dying it here with me? Tommy?
Have you got a mother and a father?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I have?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Then you think about them and how much they'll all
want to see you again. I'll tell you what we'll
do tomorrow. You and I will write them a letter
tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Good morning, mis Nightingale.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
He's still sleeping.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
You been here all night?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yes? No, because Feaver's gone down. He's much better. I
don't understand. He didn't think he could live until morning.
He's going to live. He's going to be all right.
Her little care goes a long way, yes, and a
little love goes a long way further. I'm glad he's better.
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I wouldn't like to leave for the Crimea as long
as anyone still needed me here.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well s Nightingale, Welcome to the Crimea.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Oh doctor Scott, I'm so glad to see you. I
need your help. The officials here won't supply my staff
with any food. Who gave him such an idiotic order?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I did you who? Those were Colonel Hans's instructions. I
had no choice but to obey them.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Colonel Hunt is going out of his way to be vindictive.
You can't be expected to obey him.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
I don't dare fall follow him again. I was sent
here because I told him what I thought of him.
For putting you in the typhoid ward. If I disobeyed
Hi now, it would mean a court martial. I comfished
that I.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Should think not. Indeed, it doesn't matter about me. I
can always get along with a cup of tea. But
I must do something about my nurses that they're famished it,
Miss Nightingale. Yes, what is it? We've been refused admittance
to the hospital. What we are certainly not ordered here?
Did you give that order to doctor Scott?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You don't understand.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I'm part of this miserable system.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Your system may starve me, but it will never succeed
in keeping me for my sick I shall go to
the hospital at once and demand admittance once, Nightingale, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Sorry, Miss, I can't pass you into the hospital.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Why not orders?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I hope you'll go quietly back.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Miss.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
If you try to come in here, I should be
obliged to restrain you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Orders are orders.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Then I shall wait out here till they're canceled.
Speaker 13 (18:59):
In the snow, Miss in the snow, Doctor Scott, Lord Ragland,
I've been informed that Miss Nightingale has been refused admission
to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Was this done by an official order? Yes? Where is
that order, Doctor Scott. Pick it up. Yes, now, tear
it up. That's sir.
Speaker 14 (19:29):
I am Commander in Chief of the British Army. I
said to tear it up, Yes, sir, Miss Nightingale, Yes, sir,
I am Lord Ragland, Commander in Chief of the British Armies,
my arm Madam. I will escort you personally into our hospital.
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Gentlemen of the medical staff. I am deeply ashamed that
such a thing could have happened in the Army to
a lady of our country. Colonel Hunt is to be
relieved of his post at Scutari, and I want the
entire army to know that I have said most emphatically
that there must be no more of these petty jealousies.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Thank you, gentlemen. That will be all.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I beg your pardon, sir, Yes, Doctor Scott, what is it?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's Miss Nightingale, sir. She's ill, she has the cholera.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
How do you feel today, Miss Nightingale?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Better, Lord Raglon, be.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Not too soon. I wanted you to know that letters
had been pouring in from all parts of the world
concerned for your well being, and this morning we had
a letter from her Majesty the Queen sending her good
wishes for your recovery.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 14 (21:12):
You're going home for a visit as soon as you're
well enough. Her Majesty wishes to meet you. In her
own words, she wishes to have the honor of meeting you. Crying,
Miss Nightingale. That's not very soldierly of you, I know, Oh,
but how very lovely it is to see that someone
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so much a soldier can also be so.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Much a woman.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Thank please, Miss Smith, anything to declare?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Shall I open my suitcase ahead?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Did you see what it says here in the Times
of Water.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yesterday Miss Nightingale.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
Returned as Miss Smith to her home at Embley, without
anyone being aware that she'd even landed in England. Miss
Nightingale wishes it to be known that she desires no
reception celebrations in her honor. She would prefer that the
money for such a purpose should be the nucleus of
a fund for building training schools for nurses in England.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
A fine woman, God bless him.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
For Florence. I could just cry. I spent weeks planning
a gown for you to wear to see the Queen.
I'm sorry, mother, isn't that I don't appreciate it. But
I'm going as I am in that old uniform. I'm
going to meet her as a nurse, wearing the uniform
that symbolizes my work. It's my work in executive at Lantis. Now,
I'm sure the Queen mon't hear your views on nursing.
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She'll likely be pleasant. One or two anecdotes about the war, perhaps,
but no opinions.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Herbert is waiting for you in the carriage, Florence.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I'm coming far from Florence. At least do one thing
for me. Please let the Queen speak first.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
This is Her Majesty's audience chamber in here, Florence. I'll
take you in and I'll wait for you downstairs.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I think I'm a little scared.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
If you don't need to be, I think you'll find
you and the Queen see eye too. I have about
a good many things.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
Miss Nightingale.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I presume, yes, I know, mister Bullock, Laura is may
I present mister Bullock, the Permanent Undersecretary to.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The War Office.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Indeed, well, this is an unexpected pleasure the Bullock. It
is always interesting to meet and add the same. You
are one of the men who has been fighting me
for two years, aren't you.
Speaker 15 (24:06):
I'm afraid you're mistaken on only one point. I'm still
fighting you. Why because you are a dangerously progressive woman.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Then, mister Bulleck, you are not fighting me but the
ideals for which I stand.
Speaker 15 (24:19):
Ideals but will inevitably undermine the system I represent if
they are ever allowed openly to be put into practice.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
We cannot afford.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Experiments, and we cannot afford to wait.
Speaker 15 (24:32):
Whether you wait or not will depend largely upon the
decisions of a Majesty the Queen. It seems only fair
to tell you that I have already spoken to her
regarding the war of his his attitude.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
In this matter.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I am sorry to hear that, Bullick. It seems to
me that it will be only common curtesy to allow
Miss Nakingale to see her first.
Speaker 15 (24:48):
Miss Nightingale has chosen to enter a man's world. She
need not therefore expect any quarter, because she's a woman.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I don't expect any quarter, nor shall I give any
I have been fighting a long time now, mister Bullock,
and I know how to fight.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 15 (25:06):
Well, Miss adding Gil, it's been most interesting to meet
you and to have this opportunity of talking with you.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Good day, good day.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
It's almost time for your appointment. I'll leave you hearing
her Majesty's audience chamber. She'll be in in a moment.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
That's a fine portrait of her. I think i'll practice
my speech. I won't get stage fight in front of
a portrait flow.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I wait for you downstairs.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Good luck, Thank you, Uh, your Majesty. I expect that
Colonel Hunt has told you about the defects in my
work at Scutari, and no one knows them better than I.
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But the difficulty is that my loyal nurses had to
face were at times almost insurmountable. Whatever else I may
have done during the war, I have shown beyond doubt
that nursing is woman's highest vocation. It is for the
future of nursing that I am pleading all over the
civilized world. The development of every branch of science as
being furthered, except the science of nursing. Nothing is being
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done for that. To be unprepared when the hour strikes
is a crime. To be ready is the secret of life.
I want to establish training schools for nurses for the
big army of women that is coming out of a future,
Ready and willing to take my vow, I solemnly pledge
myself before God to pass my life in purity and
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to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever
is deleterious and mischievous, will not take or knowingly administer
any harmful drug. I will do all in my power
to elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold
in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and
all family affairs coming to my knowledge. In the practice
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of my profession with law well, I endeavor to aid
the physician in his work and devote myself to the
welfare of those committed to my care. Oh, Miss Nightingale,
Oh yeah, from majesty, I'm so sorry I didn't hear
you come in. I'm glad you didn't.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
It was a fine speech, and I want you to
know that not only do I appreciate the fine work
you've done, but I shall do everything in my power
to see that it continues. Thank you, your majesty, Miss Nightingale.
It is with great pleasure that I present to you
this brooch, the form and emblem of which commemorate your
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great and blessed work Saint George's cross, and underneath are
these words Blessed are the merciful.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
May I pin it on your uniform.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Your Majesty England is most proud.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Wislating In a moment, we'll bring our star, Virginia Bruce
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back to this microphone, but first, may we leave this
thought with you. Unlike most of us, a doctor can
never forget business completely.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Even when your.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Physician is enjoying an evening away from home, he is
previously left word as to where he may be reached
in case of emergency. Yes, doctors are on call any
hour of the day or night, and they're noted for
responding to that call. Always. Schenley Laboratory salutes in this
series of programs the spirit of constant service to mankind
which characterizes the medical profession. Now Here is the star
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of tonight's play, Virginia Bruce.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Women of America today, the need for nurses is desperate.
If you were a high school graduate between the ages
of seventeen and thirty five in good health, apply at
the hospital nearest your home. Remember, nursing is one of
the highest vocations a woman can follow. Won't you apply now?
And may We invite you to listen again next week
at the same time when Shenley Laboratories presents Now Voyager
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with Loretta Young, a great star and a great story.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
White Angel was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence and
was presented through the courtesy of Warner Brothers, who this
year is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Sound Pictures.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It was a Gene Holloway adaptation.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories, producer of penicillin, Shenleigh.
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
Shenley Laboratories, producer of penicillin. Shenley and Shenley Pharmaceuticals presents
the Yon Core theaterre Beyond Core Theater play Tonight, White Angel.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Our star is Virginia Brooks.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
To Night.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Shenley Laboratories presents another and a new series of great
dramatic programs.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Some of our.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Stories are fact the struggles and accomplishments of great men
of medicine.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Others are fiction stories.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Of devotion to an ideal individual.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Heroism or courage.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
By these programs, Shenley Laboratories would remind you that medical
science and progress is not cold in personal research or
pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in
living terms, whether it's the life of one of medicine's
immortals or the everyday record of service rendered by your
own physicians. Now, White Angel, starring Virginia Bruce as Florence Nightingale.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Lawrence, where are you in here in the library? Mother? Lawrence?
You aren't dressed.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
You forget about the land of dinner?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Father? How can you go to dinner parties with all
these terrible problems in the hospitals?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Lawrence?
Speaker 7 (02:02):
You haven't been reading those reports.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I've brought home.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yes, I have father. What's the cause of these appalling conditions?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Well, for one thing, it seems to be impossible to
get enough nurses.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Now, Florence, we all know that there are aspects of
life that we must all regret. Fortunately we don't have
to encounter them. Now, run up and change your dress, dear.
We're going to be terribly late. Mother. There's a tragedy
on every one of those pages. People are dying for
lack of care. An't you any imagination? Doesn't it call
on you for service and help. I'm only thankful, Florence,
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that I lead a well ordered life in pleasant places
and with beautiful association. But Florence, dear, I can't see
why you should let yourself be come upset. I'm sure
that your father will do everything in his power to
improve matters. You'll forget all about this as soon as
you're married to Charles. But I'm not going to marry Charles.
It's out of the question now.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Now, my dear, you are just a little upset. To night,
things will look differently in the morning.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'm never going to marry any one. Charles is a
very desirable husband. He's handsome, well educated, good family. Charles
is much more than that. Mother. Charles is all the
things I used to dream about when I was a
little girl, all the things any woman would want a
man to be. And if I could limit my life
to the confines of one small world, I would marry Charles,
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and I'm I'm sure i'd be very happy. But I can't.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Why not, Florence, Because I want to.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Do something bigger, something really worthwhile. I want to feel,
when I'm ready to die, that I've contributed something to
the world. You could be a wife and a mother.
What more could any woman be? I'm going to be
a nurse. I'm going to Sweden next week to train. Well, miss,
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how do you like scrubbing floors? So I've done things
I like, Feather, I can't make you are coming all
the way to Starkholm to do this. Are there any
training schools for nurses in England? No minna in England.
They don't teach girls to do anything. Oh what a
wonderful country to live in.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
Ladies, you're forgetting the rules of the institution. Work must
be done silently. Come my probationists. I'm wanted by my
patient in room twenty.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I want you to come along, Minna. We just sat
down to eat. You can't eat if your patients need you.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Come girls, This is no time for dardling.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Let me make the bed for you. Missus Arnold, certainly not.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
All you've got to do is look on and learn
all you can.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You're not ready yet for practical work, or we're ready
for us chambermaid works, scrubbing and cleaning and everything else
that's disagreeable.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
A very important rule in nursing is not to chatter.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I carry these sheets downstairs? When may we take charge
of patients.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
After you've learned your ABC's A course of dirty work
makes the best nurses.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Do have some of our comforts, lady.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I am no, thank you, mister Herbert.
Speaker 9 (05:25):
As I was saying, I'd deplore all this revolutionary spirit
on the continent. I do hope that Florence will get
home safer from Stockholm.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Missus Nightingale tells me that she's expected back tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
How her mother must be looking forward to her settling down,
settling down.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Hadn't you heard Florence is determined to become a hospital nurse.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
A hospital nurse. Oh, you're not serious.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
I certainly am, and so is France.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
If she were my daughter, I'd give her a good gripping.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Will imagine mixing with women of the lowest order.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
So far as I'm concerned, I shall cease to know
Miss Nightingale from this moment onwards.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm sorry to hear you say that, my dear, because
I shall admire her more than ever. She sets us
all an example by her courage and independence. Any intelligent
doctor will go out of his way to get hold
of her. Particularly with war brewing on the continent, we
need nurses more than ever. Florence, my dear, what are
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you doing here in the law office? Not thinking of
joining the army?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Are you hello, mister Herbert, Yes I am, if i'll
have me. Father is in with the army board now
he took my application.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Don't be too disappointed if they turn you down.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Why should they do me, Domin, they need me.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Sometimes it's a little hard to get men to admit
that they need women.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, father, I'm sorry, Florence.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
What did they say?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
They said that the medical staff at Scutare was quite
satisfied with the male nurses that they had. They said
the females were appeal to the Frenchman, but not to
Englishmen wouldn't even consider the idea of sending you to Scutari, Florence.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Are they're just being obstinate and out of date.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Perhaps it's just as well, Florence. Think of the hardship
you'd have to go through to get to the Crimea.
It's a long way from London.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
They don't need you, Florence, but they thank you for
your generous offer.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Don't need me father? Look at this article in the Times.
Paula says the sufferings of the sick and wounded are indescribable.
There are no dresses and nurses. There are not sufficient surgeons.
There's not even in linen to make bandages for the wounded.
The wounded were led to believe that everything was ready
which could ease their pain, But it was found that
the commonest appliances of a workhouse sick ward were lacking.
How dare they say they don't need me when they
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need everything and everyone that can help.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I don't know how much weight I can swing with
a board, but I'll be glad to talk to them
for you. If you like, Florence, how would you do that?
If they will send you, It'll mean reorganizing the entire
Army medical system. You would be under the Minister of
State and also under Lord Raglan, who was Commander in chief.
You'd have to work in cooperation with his medical officers.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are you sure you'll be willing to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I'm willing to do anything to help you.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Will see what I can do.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Here.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Have you done any nursing by Miss Nightingale?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Lineup over here?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Please? Have you done any nursing? Well, I should think
I have. I've nursed three husbands on their deathbeds, and
I've worked at Saint Thomas's Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital
and charing Cross Hospital. Sorry, you've been in too many
places for me. Next, yes, Miss Nightingale. But nursing have
you done none? But I've worked hard all my life.
I've looked after a husband and several children. Oh. I
know I'm not really experienced, but I can soon learn.
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I'm willing to do anything. You're willing to go to
Scutari Yes, Miss Nightingale, all right, report to the woman
at the next desk. She will give you the necessary forms. Next. Oh,
your sister Columbus, and you got to Saint Vincent, aren't you. Yes,
I've been in charge of you firmate the content. I'm
willing to do anything it's needed. Thank you, sister. We
shall have plenty for you to do it. Will you
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go over to missus Herbert's table. She's enrolling the nurses.
Miss Nightingale, I'm sorry, we're only interviewing women nurses.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
I'm not a nurse. I'm a cook. I'm a Shepherd
of perform Club. My name is Alexis Swyyeik, and I
would like to join your expedition. I know that for
me also, there's work at Scutari.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I accept your offer most thankfully. You shall be in
charge of the hospital kitchen.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
May I speak to you for a moment, Florence.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Of course, mister Hervey, please.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Florence, here is your letter of introduction to Colonel Hunt.
He's the commanding officer at Scutari around the military discipline. Now, Lawrence,
I understand Colonel Hunt has been advised already that you're coming.
I can't tell you whether he's pleased or not.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm sure he isn't.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
Read that communicator, Doctor Scott, did you ever hear of
such impertinence? What the office it's thinking of sending a
woman here to STI.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Time who is this miss Nightingale, Colonel.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Harm who knows some female busybody?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I imagine she's here mainly in an advisory position.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
What you can advise me about I can't imagine, and
I'm not gonna worry about her. I've always hope while
there's the English channel, she's probably won't get further than Boulogne.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, colonel, that her vote
is doing this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What what hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You are signing?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
This Nightingale too? This one? But we have typhoid cases here.
She wants to be a nurse here.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That counts to prove it.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Why don't you assign her to my hospital until this
typhoid epidemic is over?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We can never tell her this kind of infection. You'd
better tell that to miss Nightingale, so you'll go home
and stay home. I think you're treating her outrageously.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
If you're forgetting yourself softer, Scott, I think NASA leave
for the front immediately, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Orderly, please open those windows. We need some air in here.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Don't do that, mister smell for all of the ve's coming.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
When we've cleaned up everywhere, there will be no more
smells or vermin? Are you the storekeeper?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
What can I do for your miss?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
To begin with? I want a dozen mops, a dozen buckets,
and all the soap, sponges and flore cars you've got.
I want five hundred night shirts, and I'll send the
nurses offer for them in five minutes.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Give me your requisition and I'll see that in due
course it reaches the board of directors.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
A board of directors for a hospital store. Can't you
give me these things yourself? The manner in such hideous discomfortate?
They can't wait another minute.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I'm not allowed to issue anything till it's being fast
by the board.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
I can't go beyond my regulation.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I command you to give them to me.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I've got my orders and I'm going to obey them.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I've got my orders too, And when my nurses arrive here,
you'd better give the nurse supplies.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I've come to make a complaint against miss Nightingale.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Sir, what's she's done?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
She's stolen five hundred churchs and a good many other things.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Sir.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
He was broken with a bunch of nurses and took them,
and you let her. I can't fight women, sir, Well,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'm glad you came in, Miss Nightingdale. I wanted to
talk to you.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I wanted to talk to you. You've avoided me since
the moment of my arrival. I hope what I'm going
to say maybe for the good of the common cause
we both serve.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You don't have a stand.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm an army officer, I know, and I'm a nurse.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
But I think it would be for the benefit of
a sick and wounded if we could talk openly to
one another.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
What is it you want to say, Colonel Hunt?
Speaker 5 (13:04):
What makes you show this animosity towards me?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It's Nightingale.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I appreciate the frankness of your question.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I not opposed to you as a person, but.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I object to the idea of women nurses to the army.
And why do you object? You make the men soft.
Soldiers don't need to be cuddled by a lot of women.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
We don't cuddle the soldiers. We try to make their
pitiful state easier to bear.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
There's nothing the pity. It's part of a soldier's.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Life, Colonel Hunt. Have you ever been sick or wounded?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And I know what a man can stand.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Is there no possibility of an understanding between us none whatever.
Speaker 11 (13:40):
I warn you that if you show any further insubordination,
I shall have you court martials.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Colonel Hunt, I'm here to work simply and solely for
the benefit of the soldiers. I shall continue to do
so in any way that it is necessary.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Most of us are familiar with the miraculous result from
the use of penicillin and serious infection. But did you
know that penicillin is now used in preventive medicine as
well in cases of minor surgery. For instance, your doctor
may administer penicillum in any one of several forms to
prevent secondary infections. Naturally, increased uses to penicillin compose a
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its part in meeting at demand. In addition to penicillum
in its original form, Chaneley has now developed such pharmaceuticals
as penicillin cablets and proties for administration by mouth, as
well as penicillin ointment and of fom appointment. As one
of the world's largest uses of the search on mold
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Chenry Laboratories has dedicated itself to a continuing program of
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that this research program resulted the production of new and
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Speaker 10 (15:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The second act of White Angel, starring Virginia Bruce as
Florence Nightingale.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
During the weeks that followed, she became a legend. The
soldiers that she nursed idolized her, and so did people
all over the world who read and.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Heard of her work.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
In America, a man named Longfellow wrote her poems and
in the writing gave her a title that would live forever,
The Lady with the Lamb. She became a goddess of
life and healing. To Officer Infantryman, Drummer boy.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
A snighting Chale, here I am, Tommy. I'll sit by
your better moment, shall I? Oh my? What's the matter, Tommy?
You're usually in much better spirits.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
The doctor told him that he won't live until tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Miss I shan't find dying it here with me? Tommy?
Have you got a mother and a father?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I have?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Then you think about them and how much they'll all
want to see you again. I'll tell you what we'll
do tomorrow. You and I will write them a letter
tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Good morning, mis Nightingale.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
He's still sleeping.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
You been here all night?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Yes? No, because Feaver's gone down. He's much better. I
don't understand. He didn't think he could live until morning.
He's going to live. He's going to be all right.
Her little care goes a long way, yes, and a
little love goes a long way further. I'm glad he's better.
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I wouldn't like to leave for the Crimea as long
as anyone still needed me here.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well s Nightingale, Welcome to the Crimea.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Oh doctor Scott, I'm so glad to see you. I
need your help. The officials here won't supply my staff
with any food. Who gave him such an idiotic order?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I did you who? Those were Colonel Hans's instructions. I
had no choice but to obey them.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Colonel Hunt is going out of his way to be vindictive.
You can't be expected to obey him.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
I don't dare fall follow him again. I was sent
here because I told him what I thought of him.
For putting you in the typhoid ward. If I disobeyed
Hi now, it would mean a court martial. I comfished
that I.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Should think not. Indeed, it doesn't matter about me. I
can always get along with a cup of tea. But
I must do something about my nurses that they're famished it,
Miss Nightingale. Yes, what is it? We've been refused admittance
to the hospital. What we are certainly not ordered here?
Did you give that order to doctor Scott?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You don't understand.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I'm part of this miserable system.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Your system may starve me, but it will never succeed
in keeping me for my sick I shall go to
the hospital at once and demand admittance once, Nightingale, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Sorry, Miss, I can't pass you into the hospital.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Why not orders?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I hope you'll go quietly back.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Miss.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
If you try to come in here, I should be
obliged to restrain you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Orders are orders.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Then I shall wait out here till they're canceled.
Speaker 13 (18:59):
In the snow, Miss in the snow, Doctor Scott, Lord Ragland,
I've been informed that Miss Nightingale has been refused admission
to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Was this done by an official order? Yes? Where is
that order, Doctor Scott. Pick it up. Yes, now, tear
it up. That's sir.
Speaker 14 (19:29):
I am Commander in Chief of the British Army. I
said to tear it up, Yes, sir, Miss Nightingale, Yes, sir,
I am Lord Ragland, Commander in Chief of the British Armies,
my arm Madam. I will escort you personally into our hospital.
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Gentlemen of the medical staff. I am deeply ashamed that
such a thing could have happened in the Army to
a lady of our country. Colonel Hunt is to be
relieved of his post at Scutari, and I want the
entire army to know that I have said most emphatically
that there must be no more of these petty jealousies.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Thank you, gentlemen. That will be all.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I beg your pardon, sir, Yes, Doctor Scott, what is it?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's Miss Nightingale, sir. She's ill, she has the cholera.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
How do you feel today, Miss Nightingale?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Better, Lord Raglon, be.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Not too soon. I wanted you to know that letters
had been pouring in from all parts of the world
concerned for your well being, and this morning we had
a letter from her Majesty the Queen sending her good
wishes for your recovery.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 14 (21:12):
You're going home for a visit as soon as you're
well enough. Her Majesty wishes to meet you. In her
own words, she wishes to have the honor of meeting you. Crying,
Miss Nightingale. That's not very soldierly of you, I know, Oh,
but how very lovely it is to see that someone
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so much a soldier can also be so.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Much a woman.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Thank please, Miss Smith, anything to declare?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Shall I open my suitcase ahead?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Did you see what it says here in the Times
of Water.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yesterday Miss Nightingale.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
Returned as Miss Smith to her home at Embley, without
anyone being aware that she'd even landed in England. Miss
Nightingale wishes it to be known that she desires no
reception celebrations in her honor. She would prefer that the
money for such a purpose should be the nucleus of
a fund for building training schools for nurses in England.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
A fine woman, God bless him.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
For Florence. I could just cry. I spent weeks planning
a gown for you to wear to see the Queen.
I'm sorry, mother, isn't that I don't appreciate it. But
I'm going as I am in that old uniform. I'm
going to meet her as a nurse, wearing the uniform
that symbolizes my work. It's my work in executive at Lantis. Now,
I'm sure the Queen mon't hear your views on nursing.
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She'll likely be pleasant. One or two anecdotes about the war, perhaps,
but no opinions.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Herbert is waiting for you in the carriage, Florence.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I'm coming far from Florence. At least do one thing
for me. Please let the Queen speak first.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
This is Her Majesty's audience chamber in here, Florence. I'll
take you in and I'll wait for you downstairs.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I think I'm a little scared.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
If you don't need to be, I think you'll find
you and the Queen see eye too. I have about
a good many things.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
Miss Nightingale.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I presume, yes, I know, mister Bullock, Laura is may
I present mister Bullock, the Permanent Undersecretary to.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The War Office.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Indeed, well, this is an unexpected pleasure the Bullock. It
is always interesting to meet and add the same. You
are one of the men who has been fighting me
for two years, aren't you.
Speaker 15 (24:06):
I'm afraid you're mistaken on only one point. I'm still
fighting you. Why because you are a dangerously progressive woman.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Then, mister Bulleck, you are not fighting me but the
ideals for which I stand.
Speaker 15 (24:19):
Ideals but will inevitably undermine the system I represent if
they are ever allowed openly to be put into practice.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
We cannot afford.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Experiments, and we cannot afford to wait.
Speaker 15 (24:32):
Whether you wait or not will depend largely upon the
decisions of a Majesty the Queen. It seems only fair
to tell you that I have already spoken to her
regarding the war of his his attitude.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
In this matter.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I am sorry to hear that, Bullick. It seems to
me that it will be only common curtesy to allow
Miss Nakingale to see her first.
Speaker 15 (24:48):
Miss Nightingale has chosen to enter a man's world. She
need not therefore expect any quarter, because she's a woman.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I don't expect any quarter, nor shall I give any
I have been fighting a long time now, mister Bullock,
and I know how to fight.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 15 (25:06):
Well, Miss adding Gil, it's been most interesting to meet
you and to have this opportunity of talking with you.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Good day, good day.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
It's almost time for your appointment. I'll leave you hearing
her Majesty's audience chamber. She'll be in in a moment.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
That's a fine portrait of her. I think i'll practice
my speech. I won't get stage fight in front of
a portrait flow.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I wait for you downstairs.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Good luck, Thank you, Uh, your Majesty. I expect that
Colonel Hunt has told you about the defects in my
work at Scutari, and no one knows them better than I.
(25:56):
But the difficulty is that my loyal nurses had to
face were at times almost insurmountable. Whatever else I may
have done during the war, I have shown beyond doubt
that nursing is woman's highest vocation. It is for the
future of nursing that I am pleading all over the
civilized world. The development of every branch of science as
being furthered, except the science of nursing. Nothing is being
(26:17):
done for that. To be unprepared when the hour strikes
is a crime. To be ready is the secret of life.
I want to establish training schools for nurses for the
big army of women that is coming out of a future,
Ready and willing to take my vow, I solemnly pledge
myself before God to pass my life in purity and
(26:38):
to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever
is deleterious and mischievous, will not take or knowingly administer
any harmful drug. I will do all in my power
to elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold
in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and
all family affairs coming to my knowledge. In the practice
(26:58):
of my profession with law well, I endeavor to aid
the physician in his work and devote myself to the
welfare of those committed to my care. Oh, Miss Nightingale,
Oh yeah, from majesty, I'm so sorry I didn't hear
you come in. I'm glad you didn't.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
It was a fine speech, and I want you to
know that not only do I appreciate the fine work
you've done, but I shall do everything in my power
to see that it continues. Thank you, your majesty, Miss Nightingale.
It is with great pleasure that I present to you
this brooch, the form and emblem of which commemorate your
(27:40):
great and blessed work Saint George's cross, and underneath are
these words Blessed are the merciful.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
May I pin it on your uniform.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Your Majesty England is most proud.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Wislating In a moment, we'll bring our star, Virginia Bruce
(28:22):
back to this microphone, but first, may we leave this
thought with you. Unlike most of us, a doctor can
never forget business completely.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Even when your.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Physician is enjoying an evening away from home, he is
previously left word as to where he may be reached
in case of emergency. Yes, doctors are on call any
hour of the day or night, and they're noted for
responding to that call. Always. Schenley Laboratory salutes in this
series of programs the spirit of constant service to mankind
which characterizes the medical profession. Now Here is the star
(28:53):
of tonight's play, Virginia Bruce.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Women of America today, the need for nurses is desperate.
If you were a high school graduate between the ages
of seventeen and thirty five in good health, apply at
the hospital nearest your home. Remember, nursing is one of
the highest vocations a woman can follow. Won't you apply now?
And may We invite you to listen again next week
at the same time when Shenley Laboratories presents Now Voyager
(29:20):
with Loretta Young, a great star and a great story.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
White Angel was produced and directed by Bill Lawrence and
was presented through the courtesy of Warner Brothers, who this
year is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Sound Pictures.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It was a Gene Holloway adaptation.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
This is Frank Graham speaking for Shenley Laboratories, producer of penicillin, Shenleigh.
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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