Lux Radio Theatre - Cavalcade

A high-budget anthology series adapting major films and stage plays for radio, often with the original Hollywood stars. It brought cinematic drama into living rooms weekly.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hollywood, California, Monday, December twenty eighth, The Lux Radio Theater
presents Herbert Marshall and Madeleine Carroll in Cavalcade with Youno O'Connor,
David Niven and Douglas Scott. Lux presents Hollywood Our starves

(00:29):
Herbert Marshall, Madeline Carroll, O'Connor, David Niven, Nelson Buchanan and
Douglas Scott.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Our guest Noel.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cohen, author of Cavalcade, Our producer Cecil b. DeMille, our
conductor Lois Silvers. With this exceptional array of brilliant personalities,
the makers of Lux Toilet Salt welcome you to another
gaily event in the Lux Radio Theater. Don't let cosmetics

(01:00):
in bar your road to romance. The active ladder of
LUTs Toilet Soap removes staled cosmetics and all impurities that
choke the pores, leaving your complexion smooth, soft and lovely. Yes,
nine out of ten Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Stars prefer Lux Toilet Soap.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
But you can use it too every day.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
For this pure white soap costs only.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
A few sets.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Give your skin the care it deserves. Buy a few
cakes tomorrow and now.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Our producer Ladies and Gentlemen. Mister Cecil B.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
DeMille readings from Hollywood Ladies and Gentlemen on times eternal
stage where scenes are marked by passing years, Another curtain
soon will fall with Cavalcade. The lux Radio Theater says
farewell to nineteen thirty six, a play I think that

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not only crowns a year of what we hope were
notable productions, but set the standard we shall strive to
meet through eineteen thirty seven. As we turned to England
for our story, so we turned to England for our stars.
Herbert Marshall Madeline Carroll, both natives of the Mighty Little Island.
Herbert Marshall turned actor by circumstances, for he began his

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career as a bookkeeper. After a year and a half
of debits and credits, he was discharged. Needing a job,
he became assistant manager and then actor in a musical
comedy company. Today he is not only well known on
the screen, but on.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
The legitimate stages of the world.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Madeline Carroll, daughter of an Irish professor and French mother,
became a school teacher to earn money enough to take
her to London and the stage.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oddly, enough.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Madeline's first Hollywood offer was to play in Cavalcade, but
she refused it to remain in England with her husband.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Captain Philip Astley.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
She came here, however, two years ago, lending her distinction,
beauty and ability to the case against missus Ames. The
General died at Dawn.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
And Lloyd's of London.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Tonight she becomes Jane Marriott and mister Marshall Robert Marriott
Euna O'Connor will be heard as Allen, the same role
she played in the film and on the London stage,
David Niven seen currently in Dodsworth and Beloved Enemy is
Edward Marriott, and the part of Edward as a boy
is played by Douglas Scott, who has seen as a

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ratio Nelson in Lloyd's of London. Our play is by
Noel Coward, the third drama from the nimble pen of
this amazing writer, producer and actor to be performed in
Our Theater in less than a year. So on with
a play, De Luxe Radio Theater presents Herbert Marshall and
Madeleine Carroll in Cavalcade. December thirty first, eighteen nine.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Despite the Boer.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
War then raging in South Africa.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Arl England celebrated the most momentous New Year's even modern history,
the turn of the twentieth century, the beginning of a
new era. In a charmingly furnished drawing room of a
house in London, Ellen, the maid is setting the table
for a light supper.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
As she turns to the door, her husband.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
The butler, enters, carrying a bottle of champagne.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Did the master say they'd have champagne? Two bridges?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
It's a celebration, ain't it.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
And it wouldn't be a celebration without champagne, would it.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
There's art punch.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's wiser to be on the safe side, is my way?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Ellen?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
If art punch fills the bill, they ever punch. If
it's champagne, it's here too.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
How was cooked?

Speaker 5 (04:50):
When you come up?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Flighty? Running around the kitchen like a cat on a griddle.
New Year's He's.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Gone to her.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
They didn't know mistake.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
She's been queer all day?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Has she ever been quite right?

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Less than an hour ago? She told me she feels
like it was the end of everything. Oh so do
I for that matter?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh come come now, Ellen, it ain't necessary to stop
that all over again.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, you ain't losing us them.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Oh, you ain't losing me, Ellen.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
A man's marching off to war and staying alone with
his loved ones, is it?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, no, not exactly.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Oh it's horrible, Bridges. I can't bear to think what
it's going to be like when you're born.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Then don't think about it.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
I can't help thinking, Ellen, you ain't no different.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
From the missus Master Robert's going to You know, you're
in the same boat.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
As all the other soldiers.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Wives, but you ain't come out to be a soldier.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Ellen.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, what's going to happen to me? And funny, if
anything happens to.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
You, oh you'll carry off. Oh dear, oh girl, you
married me for better, no worse, didn't you?

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:54):
I did?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
But if it turns out.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
For worse, so much the worst it could be.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
And if it turns out for better, set a lot.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Of comfort, that is. And what's the war for anyhow?

Speaker 1 (06:04):
We've got to have wars every now and then to
prove we're top dog.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
This one don't seem to be proving much.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
How can you tell what our brain boys are suffering
out there in darkest Africa giving their lives bread for
their queen and country.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh if this wasn't New Year's either, I'd lose my temper.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
And that's effect Well, couldn't be the first time. You
better go and get the hot punch. They'll be here
in a minute, holyst near the arenle to all the curtains.
What almost New Years? At least they want to be cheery. Now,
go on, get the hot punch.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You mark my word, Jellen.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
If we didn't give them boys a lesson, they'd be
over here wreaking avocant carnage before you can say, Jack.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Robinson, I'll get along with you.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Bridgie, your club, ma'am, thank you your coat that in
Stier here you are very good sare May I have
the honor to issh you both a very very happy
New Year?

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Thank you Bridgers.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Same to you, Ellen.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
How nice the table though, I'll thank you them. Where
does slaves come from? From? Me?

Speaker 5 (07:00):
And preteous man with our fairy taste wishes? I'm sure?

Speaker 4 (07:03):
And I were sweet of you, Ellen, I'm not a toll.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
That's a pleasure, indeed, but I'll go on a prettiest
with your attention.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
It was sweeter than Robert. I feel I want to cry.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Then by all means, cry hearst. This evening was planned sentimentally.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
To say hail and farewell.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
It doesn't farewell yet, soon, Robert, dreadfully soon. When it comes,
then we'll take it.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
You look so beautiful a dinner, Dane.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
I'm glad you're beautiful.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Now expect it's only that dress, really dresses is gonna
be very deceiving, Dunnie.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Of course, that's perhaps how we were them.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
And that ornament in your hair is, and the fact
that I love you so dearly. You might be hideous
and ill dispositioned.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
And tedious, and I would never know it.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
You're a darling, and I'm going to believe every word
you say, even though I know I shouldn't kiss me, Robert, sweetheart,
and goodbye to the old year. I wonder if the
boys are asleep snoring expert, Oh, no, Robert, not snoring.
They both have perfect consuls, doctor Harrison said, so inherited

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from their mother.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
My dear, Oh Robert, why must you leave me?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
It takes men to fight wars.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
What does it matter about the boars?

Speaker 6 (08:17):
It matters about your brother Jim, doesn't it he's out
there that counts.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yes, give my love to him if you ever see him,
if he's alive.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Of course he's alive. They're all alive. They're bound to
be relieved soon.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Baden powers are fine men. How long will it last?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
The war?

Speaker 4 (08:36):
I mean a few months, God willing. In a few
hours you'll be sailing, you'll be going on board. Perhaps
it'll be all over when you get there. Perhaps I
suppose you'd hate that. Robert bitterly. Edward and Joel want
to see you all.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
No, no, they better be here.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
They're your sons.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
No, they're children. Be here.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's rather horrid even thinking about it, isn't it. Thank
Heaven for one thing, they won't.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Have to fight.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Peace and happiness for them, Oh, please God, Peace and
happiness for them. Always. A new year.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's started, just twelve o'clock.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Happy new year to you, both, bridges.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Open the windows.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Come over here, Ellen, stay and drink with us. What
me fill the four glasses, bitches, champagne, Make a champagne.
We'll be toasting the new year and all it means
to us.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's the new year here we are now. Raise your glasses.
Jame Ellen Bridges nineteen.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Hundred, nineteen hundred, nineteen hundred listeners. What is it the children?

Speaker 5 (10:02):
I thought I heard hid better go up and see Sam?
Did light marked?

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Joe?

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Bring them down here, Jane, bring them both down?

Speaker 6 (10:11):
How very impolite of the twentieth century to awaken the children.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Well, I think I'm better be getting aboard.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yes, we're we're almost read of the sailor, I imagine.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes, it's come at last, hasn't it? Robert?

Speaker 3 (10:42):
This moment you'll be very brave darling, won't you.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
I'll try to be take care of yourself, my dear, I.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Shall probably be seasick, lie downslad on every possible occasion.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
I'll try to remember bridges will look after you.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yep, you'll be lying down flat too, and.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
You mustn't worry about me being unhappy when you've gone.
I'm going to keep myself very busy. I shan't give
myself time to think of anything except that I'm so proud,
so proud.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Of you guarding all right on telegraph whenever it's possible.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Please do well?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Is this horrid, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I really must go, not just for a minute, Jane.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Yes, Robert, I'm going to kiss you once more, and
then I want you to turn away.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Turn away. I'm going right on talking. So you want
to actually see me.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Leave you very well by darling, now Jane, Edward, Joe
what terribly anxious to come, But I'm going I didn't
bring them, really joke it.

Speaker 8 (11:46):
Cover e Sergey so he's had a very bad cold.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Anyhow, it would could have come, I suppose, but they
would have upset Joe. So readily be left alone. Take
care of yourself, my own, dear. You're not here anymore,
so so I can break down a little.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I've felt you.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Go well, I said about Joe beg over excises robbers
rob the first four.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
Months of the New century, four months of fighting and
bloodshed in the beleague city of Mafficking and South Africa.
The British troops type desperately hoping for relief. It's the
morning of maybe eighteen nineteen hundred. All England waits on you.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang. There Edward.
How many boys did I kill that time? Twenty seven?
Set them up again, card leaders. It's one button Lake
not talk. Then he's wounded.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
You've got to put him back in the box.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
I wonder how many boy's father has killed Edward? Oh
hundreds I expect. I wish these were real balls instead
of kin ones.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Bang bang bang, dorty old Kruger.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Bang, shut up, Joe, how dare you fire without horns?
Excuse me, sir, there, that is very much more like it.
Put your army up again?

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Will you cut me this?

Speaker 10 (13:24):
Edward?

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, what is it need? I always be the balls?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (13:28):
Why?

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Because you're only your bill? Watch out?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Bang bang bell.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Teach you, you mean little pig.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
I have a cannon on my own, even though I
am a boy.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Bang bang bang. How do you like that?

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Bang?

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Take the old cattle, try to Joe snack cal of
his soldiers.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's not fair.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Stop walking a loose and nice soldiers, Edith, that was cheating.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
I'm sick of being the balls. I'll never be the
balls again. So long as I live, I won't.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
Be the balls.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
I won't see children while I love you? Making it
an awful noise on Margaret, and I can hear you
right down the hall. It's Edith, mother, what's the matter
with eat it? She doesn't like being the boy's aunt, Margaret,
she's mutinates. I don't blame her. Bang bang bang you
u Kennan, run back, Oh, Joe, you're a naughty, wicked
little boy. You go upstairs this minute.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
I only mean notpstairs, but mother, men's fight.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Why don't see why I can't.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
Come over here, Edith, and stop crying.

Speaker 8 (14:19):
He hit my.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Knee with his kennon. We should got angry because we
killed a soldier.

Speaker 10 (14:24):
Oh stop it, stop it, stop it.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Can't you play any other game of soldiers soldiers?

Speaker 4 (14:28):
So just hurt me, don't killing me. Don't I go
away from me, Go away, Jane, don't run along now,
all of you. I'm sorry, Mom, it's all right. Went upstairs, dear, Yes, Mom, Mom,
cousin medis Mom, Joe. I'm sorry, cousin Edith.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
I didn't mean to hurt you.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Jane, I'm all right. It's just nerves. Listen, soldiers of
the Queen. There's no escape from it anywhere?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Is there? Shall I throw them some money and ask them.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
To go away. I don't I don't care. If it
doesn't them, it'll be somebody else. Oh, Margaret, will these
days ever end? Robert said, It'll be.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
Only a little while and then it'll.

Speaker 10 (15:08):
Be all over.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
That was nearly four months ago.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
News will come soon.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
You must have courage, Jane, I don't believe I shall
ever see Robert again.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Be brave, Dear.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
It's much easier to be braver when there's somebody to
hear something. Deafness, I can go on smiling through long,
dragging weeks. I can't do it, Margaret, You're not in
it alone. Two people I love best in all the world.
Down there suffering, I don't hear a word. It's dreadful.
Madigan is bound to be relieved within the next two days,
and then it's all over all. The papers say so,

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that's what they've said for months. But they're dying down there, dying.
I can better think of it, yet I can't stop thinking.
I can see it at night.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
Come in Pard, Ninam.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
I just thought that some nice art tea lended Ellen.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
Tea does help mon as any news come.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
It's not yet, Ellen, no news none.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
We've been standing outside the War office Rowers.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Then we went to Fleet Street to the newspaper offices.
Will you get a nice cup of tea and that
can make your tea better? Thank you, Ellen.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
And there ain't no cause to worry about the master them.
He's all right. He's got my bridges with him. And
if anything happened to either of them. We'd be bound
to hear.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
From one of them.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
If you know what I mean, you must be fiercely
worried to Ellen. Oh, well, on and off I am,
But I says to myself that no news is good news,
and what must be musty. You'd never believe that that
char is me atmam Helen follow the news is, yes, well.

Speaker 9 (16:41):
It's about marsting.

Speaker 8 (16:42):
Oh Margaret, wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Why wait wait, there's e Lunch's down there. She's speaking
to him Ellen.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
What news are the list of the woods?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
He what is it? Nothing?

Speaker 8 (16:56):
The water in here?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Nothing always the Hey Jane, Yes, you're going to rest rest?
How can I? Then we're both going out out. I'm
going now to be back at a quarter to seven.
Why we're going to dine at the Cafe Royal, Jane,
and then go to the theater. I couldn't, you could,
and you will, Jane. It's sense to sitting at home

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by yourself fretting and wedding doesn't do any good. Robert
wouldn't want you to. What you need is life and music.
I can go you, arguing, suggested, Jane's got to naked,
be ready at a quarter to seven. Now, be here, Margaret.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Wait a gesture for men who are dying.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Keep on God playing, play louder, Soldiers of the queen wound,
isn't dying and suffering for the Queen? Play loud and
lay louder, play.

Speaker 10 (17:48):
Louder, Wait on, I say, can't help.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
I'll last, dreaming directly, Jane Darling, Brace up.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yes, this is a party, isn't this? Of course? Let
your mood fit your gown. You are beautiful, Jane. Robert
said the same thing you hear as eve. He said
he'd be back soon. I slept after left me this
afternoon splendid.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
I dreamed.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Oh it wasn't as if it were a dream.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
It was so real that I Margaret.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yet, Jane, I saw Robert. I was with him, Margaret.
I don't know where it was, but I couldn't tell.
Somehow it was a place I'd never been before, loved, peaceful,
and Robert was there. Come now, drink your while. Robert
spoke to me, task his hat aside and came running
to me. As if you were a boy like Joe
or Edward, he laughed, called as he came running. He

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called me by name, Jane, Oh, Robert, you're saying why.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Of course, Jim, I as right as man can be.
Let me look at you, darning.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Oh it's sweetheart, you look so tired. You haven't been
worrying about me, have you?

Speaker 5 (19:13):
No, not too much?

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Huh. You are never a good liar.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
I'm glad of that, though, not to miss me, not
to care too much. Oh, I've missed you so dear.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
But you're here and you're Robert.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
What's wrong there?

Speaker 4 (19:33):
You're left arm.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's all right, Jane, it's gone. I do nicely about it.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
It was just pooling about with some youngsters.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
We were making believe war.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
One of them became furious when I call her a
boar and threw a canon at me. Not so sporting,
I thought.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
But it wasn't an arm, Robert, it was a knee,
was it? Very?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well?

Speaker 4 (19:56):
What's the difference. We'll stop playing before long, we will
settle down at home.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Brink a toast to the Queen. Robert. I saw Jim
send us low.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Feed back home before long, Robert, wait for me, Robert, I.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Know what that dream means.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Shadow danger, don't absurd man, I'm coming back, Margaret.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
Wars will go on forever, boys will grow and become men.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
And because it man starts to prove with a master
laying what you say. Bridges was right.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
You don't let him the truth.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
We must prove we're topped up. Men must be born
and name die. What is that?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Quiet?

Speaker 10 (20:45):
Quiet?

Speaker 9 (20:45):
Please, ladies and gentlemen, we have news from the pronp
Messa King has been released.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Oh clean, God, let it be true.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Our Lux Radio Theater production this evening is a cavalcade,
indeed from Hollywood. The procession is headed by Herbert Marshall
and Madeline Carroll in New York. There joined by the
brilliant author of our play, Noel Coward, famous in London
and on Broadway as an actor, dancer, singer, composer, producer
and playwright, mister Coward outdoes himself this year by offering

(21:36):
and acting in nine one act plays entitled Tonight. At
eight thirty we switch you now from Hollywood to the
stars dressing room at the National Theater in New York City.
We can have our.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Distinguished guests for only a moment.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
His own audience is still applauding his first play, and
he must change his costume for the next.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
But here he is, Ladies and gentlemen, mister Noah, you coward.

Speaker 11 (22:03):
Thank you, mister dmil I am more honored than I
can tell you, not only by your very kind words
of praise, but by your having selected three of my
plays for production in your Lux Radio Theater. All this
tribute is too much, and you are taking an unfair
advantage in delivering.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
It from behind the protection of the rocky mountains.

Speaker 11 (22:23):
Yes, I have been active in the theater for many years,
but this is the first time I have ever played
two theaters all in one brief evening.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
I am enjoying the.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Experience very much.

Speaker 11 (22:33):
I would like you to know how fine I think
the Lux Radio Theater is, and I'm particularly happy that
I can salute my friends Herbert Marshall, Madeleine Carroll and
Euna O'Connor.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
This last a very old friend the Cavalcade.

Speaker 11 (22:47):
She created the part of Ellen in the original production,
and I consider them perfectly cast in the principal roles.
Many people have ascribed all sorts of motives to the
writing of Cavalcade, motives patriotic, political, and financial. Some people
make a career of motive discovery. They search every word
for a clue, like old ladies peering under the bed

(23:08):
for burglars. The real story behind Cavalcade is very different.
All my life I had wanted to do a big
play on a big scale. I had considered all periods
and episodes, and one day I happened to pick up
a back issue of the Illustrated London News. In it
was a picture of a troop ship leaving for.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
The Boer War.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
The whole scheme seemed to take.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
Form in my mind then and there I made some
tentative arrangements, but then I had to go off to
America to play Private Lives. All of a sudden, early
in April, Charles B. Cochran wired me from London. I
had to set an opening date for Cavalcade in order
to get Jurdy Lane Theater. So I took a chance
at the end of September. There I was no play,

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no cast, no costumes or set, just an opening date.
But we finally succeed in opening the show just two
weeks after the original day. Then came the critics. One
of the most amusing remarks was the reference of the
press to Mike Kenney shrewd political sense a strong patriotic
play just two weeks before the general election. The truth

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is that I had been so busy, I had completely
forgotten that there was to be an election at all.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
People have asked me what parts of Cavalcade I like best.

Speaker 11 (24:21):
My own choice is Queen Victoria's funeral scene and the
outbreak of the war in nineteen fourteen. Tonight, we are
all approaching another New Year's Eve. The first scene of Cavalcade,
you remember, was on that same occasion. The last scene
also takes place on New Year's Ease. At the close

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of that scene, a toast is proposed to England. As
you hear it tonight, I should like you to feel
that I am proposing a toast to each of you
and to your country.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Thank you, mister coward.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
We're back in Hollywood now, and Cavalcade goes forward, starring
Herbert Marshall as Robert Marriott, Madeline Carroll as Jane Marriott,
and featuring Eun O'Connor, David Nivin, and Douglas Scott. January,
in the year nineteen one, Mats King has been relieved

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and the soldiers of Queen Victoria start back to England
and homes. Robert Marriott and the Butler Bridges were among
the first to return.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
In the basement kitchen of the Marriott Home.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Bridges enters.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
He waives the newspaper excitedly, helly cook, come here, quick, quick,
And what's the matter, mister Bridges. Look here the newspaper.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Oh, don't yells, Bridges. It can't be anything to concern
a enough.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Can you say that it concerns the old country?

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Look here the queen, it says.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
She's thinking, what the cruel man?

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Now I tell you.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
So let's have a look.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh she's very old, isn't she.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Oh what's that got to do with it?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Well, I've never seen her, have I I have?

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Driving along Birdcage you walk once years ago. England won't
be the same place without the Queen.

Speaker 8 (26:31):
The procession is coming, mother, quiet Edward, stand back a
little from the window.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
They bring us an ellency too.

Speaker 9 (26:37):
Can you see elan?

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh, thank you man, I can see. Oh the Queen,
Oh God bless her.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Easy girl, easy enough, Look mom, there's father, there's father.
The procession.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Be quiet, darling, they're passing.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Now. Stand absolutely still to attention, like your father showed you.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yes, five kings riding behind her.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
None.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
She used to being a stickle lady. The death of
Free Victoria signaled the passing of the old order.

Speaker 9 (27:26):
Times and customs changed, and the twentieth century gathered speed
with the.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Dawn of each new day. But Robert, Robert, are you
sure their stakes?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Save?

Speaker 4 (27:37):
What?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Dunny?

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Those what did you call those automobiles?

Speaker 6 (27:41):
I imagine that's safe enough. Don't worry. I won't buy
one yet for a while.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Call you, bet, Hurry and get dressed. We haven't much time.
I'm almost done. How's my gown, lovely Dunny? And the train?

Speaker 6 (27:53):
If any lady at the court has one more perfect,
I shall throw up my hands. I shall probably throw
them up anyway. I'm not very fond of these former affairs,
my dear.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
They make me nervous.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Oh, Robert, don't be silly. I mean the going was.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
Far less difficult for those fellows in Africa. Really, don't
talk about that, please, No, no, what's the matter.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
I'm happy tonight, Robert. I want to stay happy. War
isn't happiness, all right? Our sons Joe and Edward.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
If war ever came.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Again and took them, I'm going to take them. How
about my tie with you running?

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (28:30):
I'm sorry, Robert, right well, am I dressed up to
please you? You're perfect, except where's your Victoria Cross?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Oh, here we are.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Wait, I'll put it on for you. Some men are
brave enough to win the VC, but I've yet to
meet one who knows how to wear it. There. Oh,
I'm so proud of you, Robert, I mean, sir Robert.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
We've come a long way, Lady Jane, a very.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Long way, and in such a few years. It frightens
me sometimes. Yeah, I mean, everything's so different, Robert. You're happy,
aren't you, of course, darling? And yet oh haven't you
ever ate right down inside for well, for the other
days before the war if you want.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yes, I think I have.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Things are different, things have changed, but it doesn't only us,
it's the whole world. It's all England. There's a new
spirit of things, a new thought, a new philosophy of existence.
I don't know exactly what it is. I don't even
know that.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
I care for it, but it's there.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Well. I sometimes wonder if we weren't just as happy
then in a small house with just Ellen and Bridges.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Oh, good old bridges.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
I missed them, Robert, I miss Ellen.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
You must run down and see them. Sometimes they opened.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
A pub, you know, after they left us a pub.
You mean a bar, of course, didn't I tell you?
You just wrote me all about it. That's bad. They've
changed too.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Not Bridges, He couldn't.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
He'll be the same Bridges of the day he dies.
I hope.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
She does his beautifully and okay, thank you Bridges and
me has been giving her lessons now for two years.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Very talented to ask me, thank you, sir? Come here, Yes, sir,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Suppose you remember me. You were just a baby when
I knew you.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Yes, sir, Mamma's tell me how we used to live
at your house me.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
And asked, that's enough. Now going to damn fanny.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yes, mother, are you a master?

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Rabbert's a doctor?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Sit college me, lady. He is mad about it too.
He must come and see you sometimes, and he's don't
on vacationer.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
Oh thank you mom. Hello Ellen, Oh hello George, missus
with me.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Oh, I didn't know your agg company. Oh please, they
don't go on our account.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
Have come in flow. We just got by Ellen. We
didn't know you had that. This is mister and missus
George Snapper, my lady, Sir Robert and Lady Marriott.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Sit down, sit down, George.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Well, thanks a nice day out, Sir Robert.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yes, yes, it's well a spring now, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
By the way aalen n I'm sorry to help Bridges
all ridges. You what's wrong with him?

Speaker 6 (31:31):
Ellen?

Speaker 5 (31:32):
Well, before you and Flow come, George, I was explaining
to her ladyship and Sir Robert about Pool Bridges bed laying.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
He's so sorry to hear about his leg.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
Ellen explained that he's been in horrible.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Agony ever since Sunday.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Where is he he?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Stop kicking down my sides?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Where is he?

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Ellen?

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Upstairs?

Speaker 3 (31:49):
In bed?

Speaker 10 (31:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Pop up and see you sleep now?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Well, my wal you wouldn't tell us how he came
to have the accident. Well he was cycling, Sir Robert.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
He was circling and he's still off.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Didn't know your dicycle?

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yes, and getny more doing house, Sali. We will not
seen him, yes, Sir Ralpert, I'll do that. Goodbye, Elin, Oh, it.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Was so kind of you, and I'm to come all
the way down here to see us and to bring
Sandy that lovely doll and everything I wanted to see you.
Goodbye is a snapper happy to make you.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I'm sure. Goodbye, sir, goodbye Alin.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Goodbye Elin again, don't.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
Fail to remember me.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
The Bridges.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
We miss you both.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
It seems as if it were only yesterday that you
were with us.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
We miss you too.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Time changes many things, but it can't change your friends. Gannet.
Oh no, no, there's something that yeah, yeah, what's going
on here?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh my lord, my eye Bridges, I thought you was
in bed, said anything about bed?

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Oh you better go back, Bridges. Oh remember your leg dear,
Ain't nothing wrong with my legs? Oh, Bridges?

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Oh so yore.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
While she was trying to get me out of the way,
he pleased to meet you against Sir Robert.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Welcome to our arbor.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
Ha ha.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Jim.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh, so that's how it stands.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
I see crowd and haughty are we? Please stop? Ellen,
I'm so sorry and I quite understand. Please don't be
upsetate and let me come and see you again. Come along, dear,
came along? Who does he think he is?

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
You drunken brother?

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Shut your mask?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
You mind yours?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Now mind mine?

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Look at it, old man, you better come up and
have a lie down. Take your pour off my arm.
A lot of snobs, that's what a.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Lot of bloody snobs.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
I'm not good enough to be home.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
When the quality comes, I'll see who's good enough. Oh
give Fanny that doll and noble ladyship.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I'll look after the truck quality brings to my home.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
I'll look after my will.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
I'll ended right back. I don't fetch him, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
He's a bit woozy, that's all.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
He's gone down three if might go up to the round,
don't stop him.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Go making gas bridges.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Come back here. You're blin your own business.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Come back out of the street.

Speaker 9 (34:16):
There's a fuss making work you.

Speaker 10 (34:17):
I'm not good enough.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Treame court time.

Speaker 10 (34:20):
Look, I'll show movies.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
He's benitch.

Speaker 9 (34:40):
The twentieth century swings into its second decade March nineteen twelve.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
I said, try there, Yes, that will. Sorry, you're going
to sit up all night. I hope not you, No,
sir Well, and you're just sitting up waiting for Joe,
aren't you?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Edward?

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 3 (35:06):
So am I Where is he? I don't know, sir. Sure.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
He said he was going out tonight, so that's all
I know. And he said he'd be back early three o'clock.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
That's early enough.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
I suppose you're going to play the goods Merton.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Again, God, going up to bed my father, I hadn't you've.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Done it before quite a few times? Or did you
think I didn't know?

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Father, don't be rapid, and Joe's just a kid. He
doesn't know what it's all about.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
He's all right, of course he is.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
That's why I want to speak to him. By the way,
how's he did? Oh?

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Very well?

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Huh separdate yet, yes, it's the seventh good. He's a
splendid girl.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
He did.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
He's staying into America on your honeymoon.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Hey, and I beat it once to.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
About Joe. Father. Oh that must be Joe now, I imagine, so.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
He won't stay with you. Oh no, sir, that is
not unless you thinks that would?

Speaker 4 (35:58):
I say, Edward, see everything clear, it's quite clear.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Joe come in.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Oh oh, I say, father, I didn't know that you
were downstairs. It's all right. How are you, Joe? I? Oh,
I'm quite well. Thanks, but I think i'll say good night.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
Yas good night women, So down Joe have a good
time tonight. Mm hm, yes, sir, splendid.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
I was out of under lads. We did the town
a bit, you know how it is, of course.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Of course, I used to go up with the lads myself.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Oh, we had some gay old times. You used to
stay up till all hours.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Really, yes, once in a while.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Oh, you fellows go a good deal faster.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Than we did.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Of course, things will speed it up.

Speaker 6 (36:47):
So only the other night, your mother and I went
to a restaurant after the theater, first time i'd been
for years. There were a lot of young people there.
I was quite surprised surprise the way they were carrying on.
Oh I wasn't shocked or anything like that, but it
was so different, so utterly different from anything i'd have unknown.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
It was.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
Unhealthier somehow. There was a young fellow off in the
corner with a party fellow about your age, Joe. He
had a girl with him, very pretty girl too, but
they had both been drinking quite a lot. Wasn't a
very pleasant sight. Luckily your mother had her back to them,

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but I didn't want to take any chances. I took
her out of the place.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
On the way home.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I got to thinking, I thought, I'm glad that boy
wasn't Joe. If it had been Joe, it would have
hurt horribly.

Speaker 12 (37:54):
What restaurant was It's a Cafey Royal, I see ever
been there, Joe? Yes, sir, you say that you took
mother out. That's right, she didn't see No.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Well, good night, Joe, Good night, sir. See you in
the morning.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yes, sir and father, well, thank you for taking mother out.

Speaker 9 (38:29):
April fourteenth, nineteen twelve, on the high seas off Newfoundland.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
It is yes, Edward, Darling, stand here close to the rail.
Oh glorious. But it's too big. The Atlantic, isn't It's.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Far too big, too deep, much much too deep.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I don't care a bit? Do you not described the awful?
If a magician came to us and said, unless you
count accurately every single fish in the Atlantic, you'll die.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Tonight, and we should die tonight.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
How much would you mind dying? I mean, I don't know,
really a good deal like sex. I don't believe I
should mind so very much. Now you see, we could never,
in our whole lives be happier than.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
We are now, could we. But Darling, there are different
sorts of happiness. This is the best sort, o, sweetheart,
don't darty.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
We don't want any more of the Stewards to know
where on our honeymoon. Why not most of them forgot
what honeymoon's like. Did you ever think from your children
going to the pantomime and going to the zoom playing soldiers.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
But we should ever be married?

Speaker 4 (39:42):
That?

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Of course I didn't.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Was I a nice child?

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Horrible? So were you? So was Joe vile?

Speaker 4 (39:48):
You will used to take sides against me, and yet
we all liked one another.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Really, I think I.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Liked Joe better than you when he was younger and
easier to manage. He was always funny at the wedding
was if he has no reverence, I'm afraid, absolutely none.
He's passing gallantly through the chorus girl's face, now, isn't
he gallantly?

Speaker 3 (40:07):
But not quickly?

Speaker 4 (40:10):
You had several love affairs before you married me, didn't you?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Light of my life? Please? Shut up?

Speaker 4 (40:16):
You'd be awfully cross if I'd had, wouldn't you?

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (40:20):
I rather wish I had? Really, Perhaps I should have
learned some tricks to hold you with when you begin
to get tired of me.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
I never shell, darling.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Oh yes you will windy. The loveliness we feel now
will fade, and the guilt were off the gingerbread.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Tell me have you ever seen gingerbread with guilt on it.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Never then that's settled anyway. Look at father and mother.
They're perfectly happy. They had a better chance. At the beginning.
Things weren't changing so swiftly.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
Life wasn't a rest.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
How long you give us, I don't know, I don't care.
This is our moment, Edward, complete and heavenly, this is
our own forever.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Wireless message Boicer, Oh thank you, sir. I'll take it here,
A wireless message for.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Us, nobody else, Danny, look here, mister and.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Missus Edward Marryott on board the steamship Titanic.

Speaker 9 (41:43):
The new century speeds on on to a climax of
love and hate, of fire and blood, of steel against steel.
August the fourth, nineteen fourteen.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Robert, help me off with these does sheets.

Speaker 8 (42:00):
We'll get a woman in.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Tomorrow and clean up all right here. I shall never
go on a holiday again. Ever, it's horrid when you're there,
and it's much worse when you come back.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
Still, it is better to be here in London, Jane.
If anything's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
It's going to happen, all right. I'm afraid there's no
doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Now.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Oh it's so hot.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
I can't breathe.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Robert, Hello, mother, Oh Joe darling, it's grand to see
you back.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
How are you? Father? Fine? Thanks? Cigarettes? Oh? No sun?

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Now a pretty exciting all the things that are happening,
aren't they? Yes?

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Rather like Germans? Don't you? Enormously? This is a war?

Speaker 4 (42:39):
How long do you think it will last?

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Three months? Of the outside? I suppose we should wine,
can't we?

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Robert?

Speaker 3 (42:45):
What's wrong deal?

Speaker 4 (42:47):
I'm going upstairs for a minute. I shan't be long,
all right, Donny, I say the war might last a
six month?

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Don't you think? Oh impossible?

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Have you any idea, Joe what a war costs in
actual money?

Speaker 12 (42:59):
I suppose quite a lot.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Yes, and the German is going to follow even less
than weekend.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
Are you glad you left the army or sorry?

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Absolutely delighted? Will you go back again?

Speaker 4 (43:09):
I expect so I'll go too. You want to terribly?

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Why? I don't know. I just want to. I wish
Edward was still here.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
We could have started off together. Now, don't be too impulsive, Joe.
Think of your mother, think of me.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
You're all we have left?

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Now?

Speaker 2 (43:30):
What a fire of nice Germany?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Do you hear?

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Where?

Speaker 8 (43:36):
Robert?

Speaker 3 (43:37):
What he is Ingland. Isn't war, My dear, warm.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Warm, It's hard to me. Don't look so sad. Mum
won't last line, I say, father, we won't have some wine.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
We must drink to this. We have only hot.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
We'll have to drink to the dawnfall.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Of Germany in her own waye her her.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
Edward, miss this. I'm glad, Jane. He died when he
was happy, before the world broke over his head. Say that, Jane,
We've had wars before without the world breaking.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Drink to war then if you want.

Speaker 9 (44:15):
I'm not going to.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
I can't rule Britannia.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Send us victorious, happy and glorious drink.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Joey, you're on your baby silver. You're holding up the
war drink like the Germans are drinking the victory and
the breach. Will You've been tragic sorrow, Believe me out
of it. A da This is a Columbia Dashing Sister.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Herbert Marshall, Madeline.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Carroll and our all star Cash will be back in
the Lux Radio Theater presentation of Cavalcade. Shortly for the moment,
let's drop in at Universal Studios.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
It's after closing time for Sally be secretary to a
famous producer.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
But Sally won't go home.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
She's still hoping for that invitation out. On New Year's Eve,
the telephone rings. She picks up the receiver, hopefully Hello. Yes,
oh hello, Alice thought it might be somebody else New
Year's Eve.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
I guess I'll go to bed. What. Oh, no, I
have something to wear. Just remade my old blue velvet.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Oh, I can't dance alone.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Can I?

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Oh, I'm sorry. It does seem everybody's going out but me. Oh,
I'm not bitter. You be set up too. What are
you driving at? Oh, don't be silly, Alice. You have
something to say. Say it complexion, about it.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
And now on the other end of the wire, Alice
is telling Sally, and truthfully so that a girl is
out of the picture where men are concerned, unless her
complexion is lovely important to guard against cosmetic skin. Its dullness,
tiny blemishes and larging pores spoil good looks, ruin your
chances for romance.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Begin the new year right.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Use for your complexion. The care screen stars use Luck's
toilet soap. Its active lather removes dust and dirt, stale
rouge and powder thoroughly prevents the poor choking that causes
cosmetic skin. You can use powder and rouge as much
as you like, but before you put on fresh make up,
always before you go to bed, remove your stale makeup.
The Luck's toilet soap way. This year, Luck toilet soap

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is kept many thousands of complexions lovely. Next year, let
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Speaker 11 (46:51):
Once again, Mister de Mille.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Cavalcade continues, starring Herbert Marshall, Madeleine Carroll, with Uner O'Connor,
David Nevin and Douglas Scott. Time swings in a tarbit.
Men battle, Men die, The whole world roars in chaos.

Speaker 9 (47:16):
Once more.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
We're in the Marriott drawing room. It's the morning of
November eleventh, nineteen eighteen. Helen has just entered. Jane goes
to her with outstretched hands.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Ellen, Oh, I am glad to see you. I couldn't
believe my eyes when you first walked in and sit down.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
I just thought i'd call madam.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
I'm glad you did so glad. These the lonely days,
aren't they, Eleen?

Speaker 5 (47:39):
My calls rather important as a matter.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Of fact, how Fanny, Oh, very well, I'm never going
to forget how she danced the last time we saw.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
She's dancing and over the moon, now you know.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
Yes, I went the other night. She was splendid. I
felt very proud to Noah, it's about her.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
I've come to see you.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
Is anything wrong?

Speaker 5 (48:00):
Well no, not exactly.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
What is it about her and Joe?

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Joe?

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yes, I don't understand Elan.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Well, they've been, they've been what.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
You might call in love. Yes, my Joe, Yes, you're Joe.
His last two leaves, he.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
Spends a lot of time with Denny.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Oh, I see, I wouldn't come to see about it
at all.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Only well, now that the war's over, are almost over,
that is, and he becoming home.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
I thought that, What did you think? Well, I thought
they ought to get married. Does Fanny want to marry him?

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (48:39):
I haven't talked to her about it. She doesn't know.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
I know.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
And how do you know?

Speaker 4 (48:43):
I found a letter he wrote and you read it.
Of course I brought it with me.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
I knew you'd want to see it. I do not
wish to read it. Oh, I see, I think we
better let the whole thing stand until.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Joe comes home, when he and Fanny can decide what
they wish to do.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
I doesn't wish to wish to upset you.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
I'm not in the least upset.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
It's been on my mind.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
But you didn't tell Fanny before you came here. I
think I know why. In any case, I never interfere
with my son's affairs.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Well, Char, I'm very sorry.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
That's all. Goodbye, Alin.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
I suppose you imagine that my daughter isn't good enough.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
To marry your son.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
Well, if that's the case, I can assure you that
you're very much mistaken. Sanny's received everywhere, she knows all
the best people.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
How nice for her.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
I wish I did.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
Oh, things aren't what they used to be, you know.
Oh no, it's all changing.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yes, I see it is.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
Sanny's at the top of the tree now while she's
having the most wonderful office.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Oh, Ellen, what is it? I'm so sorry, so sorry,
don't know what you mean. Oh yes, you do. Inside
you must understand, Ellen. Something seems to have gone out
of all of us. Goodbye, Alin, your problem, lady? Yeah,
what is it? Belden?

Speaker 3 (50:01):
A telegram?

Speaker 8 (50:03):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (50:04):
It's all over, Milady. The war's over. Is eleven o'clock,
milady that there's no answer, Belden, no answer, lady?

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Is anything wrong?

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Oh ma'am? Oh quick, what's happened?

Speaker 4 (50:21):
What is't that telegram? You needn't worry about Fanny and
Joe Ellen. He won't be able to come back any
more because he did? Did? Oh good?

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Oh dear God, why.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
Eighteen more years?

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Roll by?

Speaker 2 (50:51):
December the thirty first, nineteen thirty six, eight.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
In dea.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Oh yes, Robert, wait will sleep? No, dear, I was
just sitting here thinking and watching the crowd go by
in the stream.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Did Franklin bring the champagne up?

Speaker 4 (51:14):
There? It is by the table? Good well, Robert, here
we go again.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
I believe you will laugh at me inside for my
annual sentimental outbirth.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
No, dear, I don't laugh at you.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
One more year behind.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Us, one more year.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Before us, do you mind?

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Oh? No, Everything passes even time.

Speaker 6 (51:38):
It seems incredible, isn't it. Here we are in the
same room.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Yes, I've hated it for years.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Do you want to move?

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Of course not.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
We might have some new curtains we.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Have, dear, and I never noticed They've only been up
a week.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
They look very nice.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Robert, what host of you in mind the night? Something
gay and original, I.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Hope, just our old friend.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
The future, the future of England. Quick keep starting as
Sam pain, hurry, I can't get the thing open. Let
me try. There it is.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Here, Jane.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
First of all, my dear, I drink to you, loyal
and loving always, God bless you. Jay.

Speaker 6 (52:32):
Now let us a couple the future of England with
the past of England.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
The glorism, victorism, triumphs.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
That are over, and the sorrows that.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Are over too.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
Let's drink to our sons who made part of the pattern,
and to our hearts that died with them.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry that made a
strange heaven out of unbelievable hell. And let's drink to
the hope that one day this country of ours, which
we love so much, we'll find dignity and greatness and
peace again.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Herbert Marshall and Madeline Carroll have a word for us
in a few moments. But now a curtain slowly falls.
The cavalcade is gone, gone to the home of straight
ascending smoke, of distant melodies, of white sails that vanish
on a red horizon. Gone to the home of all
brave things that flourish, fade, and disappear to live again

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in memories. To England, I give thanks thanks for showing
the world how to muddle through. Thanks for her patriots
and poets, for roast beef and plum pudding, for trafalgar
and tobacco, for kippers and kipling, for bowler hats and
bowling on the green, And for performers like Madeline, Carol
and Herbert Marshall who now rejoin us. Miss Carroll, mister Marshall.

Speaker 4 (54:24):
Many thanks, mister de Mills.

Speaker 8 (54:26):
And to paraphrase the words of Gilbert and Sullivan's mister Gilbert,
I might have been a Rusian, of Frenchman, Turk or Prusian,
or perhaps I tally Anne, But in spite of all
temptations to belong.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
To other nations, I remain an Englishman.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Then perhaps you or Bart can tell me why it
is that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in
the noonday sun.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
I refer to you, mister Marshall.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
I'm putting me nice down the spot. I can't answer
that was the bill, but I can tell you what
happened when a mad dog bit an Englishman.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
That's hardly news bart, but good ed. It's a tale
related by.

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Another English poet, Oliver ghost Little run something like this.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
The dog and man at first were friends, but when
a peak began, the dog, to gain some private ends,
went mad and bit the man. The wound that seemed
both sore and said to every Christian eye. And while
they swore the dog was mad, they swore the.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Man would die.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
But soon a wonder came to light that showed the
rogues they lied. The man recovered of.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
The bite the dog it was that died, proving perhaps
that all Englishmen should be muzzled. But before that happens to.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Me, I want to add just a word of appreciation
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Speaker 8 (55:43):
In England too, actresses turned to Lux.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
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Speaker 6 (55:57):
I want to take two tombs to the mill for
the opportun This is to play Robert Marriott and what
I think is one of the greatest grammars of our generation.
Plays like this are characteristic of the lux radio theater
and bring to the air a dignity and prestige equaling
the highest traditions of a legitimate stage. Cavalcade is a
play for the new year. Perhaps it's neither my place

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nor my talent to stand here.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
And deliver a message.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Cavalcai can do it so much better.

Speaker 6 (56:24):
Yet, how splendid a thing is love of fellow men,
of country and of peace. A few days more, and
in Hollywood, in Times Square, in London, and in all
their counterparts the world over, there will be a sound
of bells and celebration. Let's hope that when erring again
in another twelve months, they'll echo through a world a

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little closer to understanding itself, a little more tolerant, a
little nearer to the truth. But it is a good
old world, and they serve their country best who serve
the cause of peace.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Good Night, good night, mister Demill, good night, and thanks
to you both, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
This is your announcer, Melville Ruick. Mister Marshall appeared through
courtesy of Urchyo Studios and Columbia Pictures, Miss Carroll through
Walter Winger Productions. I refer you now to mister Demill
your season ticket and the Lux Radio Theater is renewed
next Monday Night, when we salute nineteen thirty seven by
starring Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
And Francis Farmer.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Our play is one which met with tremendous enthusiasm on
both stage and screen the Pulletzer Prize play Men and White.
We shall hear mister Tracy in the role of doctor
George Ferguson, in turn, Miss Farmer as Barbara Dennon and
Miss Bruce as Lara Hudson, the girl whose love stands
between Ferguson and his profession, and this gripping story of

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clashing loyalties.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
As mantrs, the makers of Lux Toilet's.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
Hope, join me in inviting you to be with us
again next Monday Night, when the Lux Radio Theater presents
Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, and Francis Palmer in Man in
White High over Asia. The sun is racing westward, emblazoning
the final days of a departing year, but a new
sun shall rise with the new year and may it

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make a brighter world for you.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
This is Central b the.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Mill, wishing you a glorious new Year from Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.