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00:17The makers of Campbell's Soups present,
00:20The Campbell Playhouse.
00:22Orson Welles, producer.
00:23♪
00:39Good evening, this is Orson Welles.
00:43For centuries, the heroes of our popular tales have been killers,
00:47outlaws, soldiers, knights in armor, warrior kings.
00:53Only recently, within the memory of most of you who are listening tonight,
00:58has the healer become a hero.
01:00The man who is skillful in making people whole instead of cutting them up.
01:06The man who strives to persevere life rather than to destroy it.
01:12Tonight's story is one of the first of the recent series of books,
01:16plays, and films about men of medicine.
01:20In 1930, its author, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
01:26Eight years ago, Aerosmith was made into a motion picture.
01:30The star of that picture was Miss Helen Hayes.
01:34She is here tonight to play in the Campbell Playhouse the same role that she created on the screen.
01:38It would be an impertinence for me to attempt any sort of an introduction.
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01:52in having her with us tonight.
01:54But just now, I'd like you to hear a word from Ernest Chappell.
01:57♪
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02:57And now for tonight's story.
02:58The Campbell Playhouse presents Aerosmith starring Helen Hayes and Orson Welles.
03:04♪
03:23Dr. Martin Aerosmith, in the name of His Majesty, King Gustav of Sweden,
03:29and on behalf of the honored members of the Nobel Prize Committee,
03:33it is my privilege to welcome you to the eminent fellowship of those who,
03:38in the realms of science, art, and literature,
03:42have rendered distinguished service to the preservation and betterment of humankind.
03:47In recognition, therefore, of your brilliant achievement in the fields of bacteriology
03:52and physical chemistry, and your unswerving devotion to the tenets of pure science,
03:58I have the honor to present to you Martin Aerosmith.
04:02♪
04:11Martin Aerosmith.
04:14That's my name.
04:17On all sides of me sit leading men of science.
04:20Looking down at me, I recognize some of their faces.
04:24That man on the aisle to the right and the one just in back of him, last year's chemistry award.
04:30It is the longest walk I can remember, from my seat in the back of the hall down to this platform.
04:37A 21-year walk.
04:41I started it with two others, with Leora and Dr. Gottlieb.
04:47Now I'm finishing it, alone.
04:51I started it 21 years ago, one September evening, in the chemistry lab at Winnemeck.
04:58I have to address, till I remember, not too close, an assistant holding a guinea pig by its legs.
05:04Dr. Gottlieb dipped his hands in the bichloride solution and shook them a quick shake,
05:10fingers down, like the fingers of a pianist above the keys.
05:15He took a hypodermic needle from the instrument's bat and lifted the test tube.
05:21But I am sure that in the bottom of the tumbler there was cotton to keep the tubes from being broken.
05:28I cannot advise breaking tubes of anthracis germs and afterwards getting the hands into the culture.
05:36You might merely get anthrax spoils or you might die a little young.
05:40I shall now inoculate the second guinea pig and the class will be dismissed.
05:45Dr. Gottlieb.
05:50Dr. Gottlieb.
05:52Well, yes, yes.
05:54Oh, Professor Gottlieb.
05:56My name is Aerosmith, Martin Aerosmith.
05:58I'm a medical freshman, Winnemeck BA.
06:00I'd like awfully to take bacteriology this fall instead of next year.
06:04See, I've had a lot of chemistry.
06:06No, it is not time for you.
06:08Oh, I know I could do it now, Professor.
06:10What did you say your name is?
06:12Aerosmith, sir.
06:15Have you taken physical chemistry?
06:17No, sir, but I did pretty well in organic.
06:19Organic chemistry, poison chemistry, stink chemistry, drugstore chemistry.
06:24Physical chemistry is power.
06:26It is exactness.
06:28It is life.
06:30But organic chemistry, that is a trade for pot washers.
06:32No, you are too young.
06:34Come back in a year, Aerosmith.
06:36That year was a time of waiting.
06:40I took the first year medical courses and passed them.
06:42I learned the proper sugar-coated pills and phrases to comfort patients with
06:46while you estimated how much you could charge them.
06:49Most of the professors at Winnemeck weren't teaching science.
06:52They were simply preparing us for a trade.
06:55And that was all most of the students wanted,
06:58knowledge that they could cash in on.
07:01They didn't talk about saving lives,
07:03but about losing cases,
07:05losing dollars.
07:07My second year, I took Dr. Gottlieb's bacteriology course.
07:11In that winter, I spent more time with guinea pigs, mice, and rats than with people.
07:15I lived in a world of test tubes
07:17filled with watery serum
07:19or deadly bacilli of roaring bunsen flames
07:22and steaming sterilizers.
07:25Hello, Aerosmith.
07:27Oh, hello, Professor Gottlieb.
07:29You are working late tonight.
07:31Let me see your slide.
07:33Sure.
07:35Ah.
07:37Ah.
07:38Aerosmith, you have craftsmanship.
07:40Thank you, sir.
07:41Oh, there is an art in science,
07:43for a few.
07:44I see you already.
07:46And I watched you in the lab before.
07:48Ah, let me see your notes.
07:50Yes, Doctor.
07:52Ah.
07:53Hm.
07:54Perhaps next thing, you would like to try
07:56tripanosomes of sleeping sickness.
07:57Oh, yes, sir. I've been very interested.
07:58They are very, very interesting and very ticklish to handle.
08:01It's quite a nice disease.
08:03In some villages in Africa,
08:0550% of the people have it.
08:07It is invariably fatal.
08:09Notes are not bad,
08:11but they can still be more complete.
08:13Aerosmith,
08:15the most important part of living
08:17is not the living but pondering upon it.
08:19The most important part of experimentation
08:21is not doing the experiment
08:23but making notes.
08:25Very accurate notes.
08:27I'll try to do better with my notes, Professor.
08:29I want to do research like you,
08:31Professor Gottlieb.
08:32You've accomplished so much.
08:34The whole world knows what you've done.
08:36No. No, I have done nothing except be unpleasant
08:38to people that claim too much.
08:40But I have dreams of real discovery
08:42someday, and for that I need help.
08:44You see, Aerosmith,
08:46not five times in five years do I have
08:48a student who understands craftsmanship
08:50and precision and maybe some peak
08:52imagination in hypotheses.
08:54I think perhaps
08:56you may one day be
08:58such a student,
09:00and perhaps we can help each other, you and I.
09:02So,
09:04now it's midnight. I would be pleased
09:06if you should come to my room and have a little sandwich
09:08Aerosmith, and we can talk
09:10some more.
09:12Dr. Gottlieb
09:14appointed me a student laboratory assistant.
09:16I felt very important.
09:18One day, in April,
09:20I went over to the Zenith Hospital for a strain
09:22of bacillus from a patient.
09:24I'm Dr. Gottlieb's assistant. I'm looking for Dr.
09:26Swenson's patient, ward D, number 17.
09:28The second floor, third door to the right.
09:30In the passage, there was a young probationer
09:32on her knees on the floor.
09:34Her yellow hair had fallen over her eyes
09:36and her green and white uniform was as grubby
09:38as her pail of scrub water.
09:40Hey.
09:42Hey, would you walk over on this side, please?
09:44I'm still scrubbing over there. Nurse, I want to find ward D.
09:46Do you? I do. I'm sorry to interrupt your work.
09:48It looks awfully important. Well, it isn't.
09:50The superintendent of nurses put me at scrubbing.
09:52We aren't ever supposed to scrub floors,
09:54you know, because you caught me smoking a cigarette.
09:56How do I address you?
09:58She's an old terror.
10:00If she found a child like you wandering around here,
10:02she'd drag you out by the ear.
10:04It's my impression that even probationers learn
10:06that the first duty of a nurse is to stand
10:08when addressing a doctor. I'd like to find ward D
10:10to take a strain of a very dangerous microbe
10:12and if you'll kindly direct me to ward...
10:14Oh, I'm sorry. I've been getting fresh again.
10:16I didn't mean to be rude.
10:18I was just... scrubbing makes me bad-tempered.
10:20I'm sorry I hurt your feelings,
10:22but you do seem so young for a doctor.
10:24I'm not.
10:26I'm a medical student. I was showing off.
10:28So was I.
10:30Ouch, I'm so stiff.
10:32Here, let me help you.
10:34Thanks.
10:36Pretty hard, this training for nursing, I guess.
10:38Not so awful.
10:40But it's about as romantic as being a hired girl.
10:42That's what we call them in Dakota.
10:44You come from Dakota?
10:46I come from the most enterprising town
10:48in the entire state of North Dakota.
10:50It has 362 inhabitants.
10:53Are you in the U Medical School?
10:55Yeah, I'm a junior in Mahallis.
10:57I'll bet you're good.
10:59I don't know. I'm not much of a medic, really.
11:01I like the lab side. I think I'd be a bacteriologist.
11:03I'm not much for the bedside.
11:05I'm glad you're not.
11:07You get it in here plenty.
11:09You ought to hear some of the doctors
11:11that are the sweetest old pussies with their patients.
11:13The way they ball out the nurses.
11:15But, lad, now they seem sort of real,
11:17what I've seen of them.
11:19I don't suppose you can bluff a bacteria.
11:21What do they call you?
11:23Me?
11:25Oh, it's an idiotic name.
11:27Leora Tozer.
11:29What's the matter with Leora? It's fine.
11:31Do you really think so?
11:33Say, when you get away from the hospital for dinner,
11:35would you go out with me, say, tonight?
11:37What?
11:39Please.
11:41All right.
11:43We'll go to the Grand.
11:45Oh, no, that's terribly expensive unless you're awfully rich.
11:47You aren't, are you?
11:49Let's go to the Bijoux.
11:51It's a nice place, and it isn't expensive,
11:53and they've got a funny machine there.
11:55When you drop nickels in it,
11:57it plays brassy kind of tunes like a merry-go-round.
11:59See, I'm glad you're so crazy about your lab work,
12:01because while everybody was perfectly sane
12:03where I came from,
12:05I got awful tired of being crazy all alone.
12:11Here we are after the present,
12:13even with the best of research,
12:15it's been largely a matter of trial and error,
12:17and if you try to establish a general law
12:19so you can predict what'll happen the next time,
12:21the time after that,
12:23and that's where Gottlieb leaves all these
12:25detailed, grubbing, machine-made researchers.
12:27You see what I mean?
12:29Yes, I think I do.
12:31Anyway, I get the way you feel about him.
12:33You don't have to shout so, you know.
12:35I was quite shouting.
12:37I didn't mean to.
12:39Only when I get to thinking about the way
12:41most of these profs don't even know
12:43what Gottlieb's up to,
12:45I hope I'm not boring you.
12:47I'm loving it.
12:49I get so technical and so noisy,
12:51you didn't even stop me and tell me
12:53I ought to have better manners.
12:55I don't see anything wrong with your manners.
12:57Don't you really?
12:59Has someone been trying to bring you up?
13:01Yeah, but not with any success.
13:03Listen, I like having you trust me.
13:05I'm not earnest, and I hadn't any brains, whatever,
13:07but I do love it when my men think
13:09I'm intelligent enough to hear what they really think.
13:11You don't have to tell me about yourself.
13:13I've always known you, Leora.
13:17I'm not going to let you go,
13:19no matter what.
13:22You're going to marry me.
13:26Yes.
13:28I guess I am.
13:36At the end of my medical course,
13:38Leora and I were married
13:40at the City Hall, Zenith.
13:42You're mine now, darling.
13:44I warn you,
13:46it isn't going to be a bit of use
13:48of you ever looking at any other woman again.
13:50I'd tear her eyes out.
13:52Oh, you needn't think so well of yourself.
13:54I don't, Leora.
13:56You'll be happy with me
13:58because you can bully me,
14:00because I'll tag after you the way no one else ever would.
14:02I'm stupid and ordinary.
14:04Oh, no, Leora.
14:06Oh, yes, I am.
14:08But I worship you.
14:10Well, your work's more important than I am.
14:12Maybe more important than you are.
14:14More...
14:16Oh, Martin, I do love you so.
14:20We lived at Zenith Hospital.
14:22Or I did.
14:24She lived out of town.
14:28I saw her as often as I could,
14:30but I didn't go near Dr. Godley.
14:32The old man never said anything,
14:34but I remember the way he shook his head
14:36when he looked over the notes
14:38in the experiment.
14:40And my duties as an intern
14:42kept me too busy to do much regretting.
14:44I saw Godley once more
14:46before I left Zenith.
14:48One night I was off duty.
14:50Leora and I were walking home from the movies
14:52and ahead of us the tall, stooped figure
14:54of a man appeared coming towards us
14:56slowly down the street,
14:58under the streetlamp.
15:00I suddenly saw his face.
15:02Martin! Martin, you...
15:04You'll remember me?
15:06Of course I'll remember you.
15:08How is everything, Martin?
15:10Everything's fine. I mean, I'm getting along, I guess.
15:12Dr. Godley, I want you to meet my wife,
15:14Mrs. Arismith.
15:16Dr. Godley, I'm glad to know you.
15:18Thank you. Your husband, he was a good chaser
15:20of little bugs.
15:22Sometime, Mrs. Arismith,
15:24make him remember.
15:26Yes, doctor, I will.
15:28Good night.
15:30Good night, Dr. Godley.
15:33So that's your Dr. Godley.
15:35Yeah.
15:37Say, Leora, how does he strike you?
15:39I think he's the greatest man
15:41I've ever seen.
15:43I don't know how I know, but he is.
15:45I wish...
15:47I wish we were going to see him again.
15:49He's the first man
15:51I ever laid eyes on that I'd leave you for,
15:53Martin, if you wanted me.
15:55He's...
15:57Oh, he's like a sword.
15:59No, he's like a brain walking.
16:01Oh, and he looked so wretched.
16:03I wanted to cry.
16:05I'd black his shoes, Martin.
16:07Yeah.
16:09So would I, Leora.
16:13But we didn't see
16:15Dr. Godley again before we left Zenith.
16:17Leora's family
16:19wanted us to come to their town in Dakota.
16:21When I finished my training, they offered
16:23to finance me while I started my practice.
16:25So soon after
16:27we arrived, they held a family council
16:29with Mrs. Tozer presiding.
16:31I have such a nice idea, Martin.
16:33Why can't we fix you up an office
16:35out in the barn? It'd be so handy
16:37to the house when we get to meals on time.
16:39You could keep an eye on the house.
16:41The barn? I don't think you understand, Mother Tozer.
16:43Why, yes, the old harness room.
16:45It's partly sealed, and we could put in
16:47some nice tar paper or even... Mother Tozer,
16:49what the dickens do you think I'm planning to do? I'm not a hired
16:51man in a livery stable or a kid looking for a place
16:53to put his bird's eggs. I was thinking of opening an office
16:55as a physician. Yeah, but you aren't much
16:57of a physician yet. You're just getting
16:59your toes in. Darn good
17:01physician, Bert. Now look here, Mars.
17:03As we're putting up the money, I
17:05I don't want to be a tightwad, but after
17:07all, a dollar is a dollar.
17:09If we furnish the dough, we've
17:11got to decide the best way to spend it. Isn't that
17:13so, Pop? Look,
17:15Father, I want you to lend us
17:17$1,000 outright to use as
17:19we see fit. $1,000?
17:21We'll pay you 6%. No, we won't.
17:23We'll pay 5. That's enough. And mortgages
17:25bring in 6, 7, and 8? 5's
17:27enough. And we want our own say, absolute
17:29as to how we use it, to fix up an office
17:31or anything else. Now, Leo... Oh, you're
17:33crazy. I suppose
17:35we'll have to lend you some money, but
17:37you'll blame well come to us for it from time
17:39to time. And you'll blame well take our advice.
17:41Bertie... And the barn's
17:43plenty good enough. Bertie, I know what we'll do.
17:45You seem to have the barn on your brain.
17:47Ah, you move your old bank there and
17:49Martin will take the bank building for his office.
17:51Now, there's no sense to you two showing off
17:53and trying to be smart. Either you do
17:55what I say, just exactly what I say,
17:57or Martin and I take the first train back
17:59to Zenith, and I mean it.
18:01Plenty of places open from there with a big salary,
18:03so we won't have to be dependent on anybody.
18:05Well, now, Ori,
18:07don't take it that way.
18:09Well,
18:11do we get our $1,000 or do we go back to Zenith?
18:15We are a one-off. I got my office.
18:17It was in a rickety building near the station.
18:19We nailed a new sign on the door.
18:21On it were gold letters.
18:23Martin Arasmith,
18:25M.D.
18:27Gee, Martin, it looks grand.
18:29And it's fun
18:31having a place all your own, isn't it?
18:33Yeah.
18:35I wish the patients would start coming in, though.
18:37I kind of expected a few of them today.
18:39Ah, you don't know this town.
18:41The farmers will watch that sign until the shine's all off,
18:43and then one of them will maybe
18:45have the courage to try the new doctor.
18:47What am I going to do, just sit here and wait?
18:49Come over here, Martin.
18:51I'll show you what you're going to do.
18:53See this old box?
18:55Well, here's an auger I swiped from home.
18:57You're going to bore holes in that box
18:59just big enough to hold test tubes,
19:01and I'm rigging up an oven contraption
19:03for a sterilizer.
19:05You figured all that out for me?
19:07No.
19:09Not for you.
19:11For an old man who believes in you.
19:13My first patient
19:15had an ulcerated tooth.
19:17The patient had run a fishhook in his finger.
19:19I cauterized the wound.
19:21Both patients lived.
19:23I expected a stream of patients
19:25from then on. I even made a first installment
19:27on a Ford car.
19:29Then I was awakened one morning at three o'clock.
19:31Martin, Martin, wake up.
19:33This is the telephone.
19:35All right, just a second.
19:37Hello? Hello?
19:39Yes, this is the doctor speaking.
19:41Henry Novak?
19:43Leopolis Road.
19:45Yeah.
19:47Let's see.
19:49Since last night?
19:51All right, I'll drive right over.
20:07Mr. Novak.
20:09Doctor, come in.
20:12That's right. This way, doctor.
20:14The little one is breathing badly.
20:16Yeah, baby.
20:18Baby, open your mouth.
20:20That's a good girl. Give me your hand.
20:22Here's water, doctor.
20:24How is she?
20:26Come over here, Novak.
20:28Child's pretty sick.
20:32Looks like diphtheria. Brought some antitoxin
20:34and we'll inject it. It's our only chance.
20:36Yes, doctor. Is she very sick?
20:38I'm afraid so. I gave her some hot clothes, towels,
20:40napkins, anything. This room ought to be moist to
20:42keep water boiling in that stove.
20:44All right, doctor. I'll do everything you say, just so you save her.
20:46There now. We'll inject.
20:48Towel. Towel. Here's some towels, doctor.
20:50Wrap her up. Lift that side, Novak.
20:52This way. Doctor!
20:54Yeah? Yes, what?
20:56Doctor! What's wrong?
20:58Doctor, she's so still suddenly.
21:02Doctor!
21:10Leora.
21:12Leora, it was my fault. Martin, don't.
21:14I should have operated.
21:16I should have operated. She'll be all right now.
21:18I operated.
21:20I did the wrong thing. You did all you could, Martin.
21:22Probably all anyone could do.
21:24They called you too late that time.
21:26I'll never practice medicine again. I'll never practice.
21:28Stop saying those things. It'll be different in the morning.
21:30No, it's no use. I'm through. I'm no good.
21:32I can't save people in this town when they know about it.
21:34Martin. I'm through. Martin, listen to me.
21:36Do you really think
21:38you're the only doctor that ever lost a patient?
21:40You did your best.
21:44Now get some sleep, Martin.
21:48Well, I did get over it.
21:52In a couple of years, I built up a pretty fair practice
21:54at Wheatsylvania.
21:58I became a director of Bert Tozer's bank.
22:02It was a good life, in a way.
22:04In the summer, Leora and I
22:06drove over to Pony River
22:08for picnic suppers and for swimming.
22:10In autumn, there was
22:12duck hunting,
22:14the winter sleigh rides
22:16and socials.
22:18Then one day, my fourth year
22:20there, Sundalius,
22:22the great scientist and plague fighter,
22:24came to Minneapolis to lecture
22:26and I made a 60-mile trip to hear him.
22:28After the lecture, I waited to talk to him.
22:30There were things I wanted to ask him.
22:32He invited me to a beer garden.
22:34How did he like my lecture?
22:36Well, he liked it fine, Dr. Sundalius.
22:38Oh, it's so hot tonight.
22:40I've been lecturing nine times a week.
22:42Des Moines, Fort George, La Crosse, Elgin and...
22:44Oh, I forget. Was it all right, really?
22:46Oh, honestly, I've...
22:48I've never enjoyed anything so much in my life.
22:50Aerosmith, they hated my lecture,
22:52but you make me feel like a prophet.
22:54Come, have another drink. All right.
22:56As a hygienist, I warn on alcohol.
22:58In excessive quantities, it's almost as bad as ice cream soda.
23:00But as one who's fond of talking,
23:02I find a nice long glass of lager
23:04a great solvent for human idiocy.
23:06Now then, my friend, what do you wish to know?
23:08I'll tell you, doctor.
23:10I'd like you to tell me, do they have city health bureaus in Europe?
23:12They do.
23:14They are only less ineffectual than our own.
23:16See that girl at the table over there?
23:18Yes. What about her?
23:20What ankles, what shoulders.
23:22This is good beer, Aerosmith. Des Moines.
23:24Lecturing. Such nonsense.
23:26I would give it up.
23:28Dr. Do you know Dr. Gottlieb?
23:30Gottlieb? I should say I know him.
23:32He is now at the Institute of McGurk.
23:34Gottlieb has done some great experiments.
23:36Great.
23:38Gottlieb would not sit here bawling like me, no.
23:40Gottlieb sits home and works.
23:42Makes me look like a circus clown.
23:44He shows me what a fool I am.
23:46He is the spirit of science.
23:48He is the leader in our fight
23:50to push diseases off the earth.
23:52You wanted me to work with him once.
23:54I guess that is what I should have done.
23:58Not just tinkered a lot of worn out bodies.
24:00Someday, my dear young fellow,
24:02instead of peddling pills,
24:04maybe you will follow me or Gottlieb.
24:06It is one and the same.
24:08We scientists, we must work together
24:10to make a new world.
24:12A good world for men to live in.
24:14Hey, waiter. Bring another beer.
24:16A good world for men to live in.
24:18Hey, waiter. Bring another beer.
24:24That winter, I did some experiments
24:26on the relation of the mollison production
24:28to the age of culture.
24:30My findings were published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases
24:32and then things began to change for me in Witzelvania.
24:34An epidemic of blackleg broke out
24:36among the cattle in Crenston County
24:38and the state veterinarian had been called
24:40but the disease was spreading.
24:42With Leora's help, I made a new vaccine
24:44and in my homemade lab,
24:46I injected cattle without charge
24:48and the disease stopped.
24:50The veterinary sent in a complaint
24:52to the State Board of Health
24:54reporting my interference
24:56and then I discovered that a farmer's wife
24:58was a typhoid carrier
25:00in a section where the disease was prevalent.
25:02I demanded that she be quarantined
25:04and the community rose up in arms about it.
25:06A meeting was held demanding my removal
25:08but the quarantine was enforced
25:10and the typhoid, of course, disappeared.
25:13It finished me in Witzelvania.
25:15Two farmer's children fell ill.
25:17I diagnosed their cases as smallpox
25:19and demanded several vaccinations
25:21throughout the county.
25:23Cases turned out to be chickenpox.
25:25After that,
25:27life became impossible.
25:29In August,
25:31Leora and I went to County Fair, I remember.
25:33On the fairgrounds,
25:35I seemed to cause more interest among the farmers
25:37than any of the exhibits.
25:39Hey, Doc! Come on over and see my melons!
25:41They grow faster than your smallpox!
25:43Hello, Mr. Jarrah-Smith.
25:45How are you today?
25:47I've got a pimple on my chin, Doc.
25:49What is it, smallpox?
25:51Yeah! I expect he's not playing enough.
25:53He's had more smallpox cases lately,
25:55have you, Doc?
25:57Yeah, what's the latest figures
25:59on that smallpox epidemic you're discovering, huh?
26:01Here, Mr. Jarrah-Smith, Sam Broderick works.
26:03Well, you sure go in for fancy diseases, Doc.
26:05You ain't found any cold, have you?
26:07Looks like I'm licked, Leora.
26:09Might as well get out.
26:11There's nothing more I can do here.
26:13Take years before they trust me again.
26:15I'm glad, Martin.
26:17You're too good for them here.
26:19I've learned a little something here,
26:21even if I've failed.
26:23I guess I don't know how to handle people,
26:25that's all.
26:27I could stick it on, I would.
26:29Except that life's short,
26:31and I think I'm a good-for-nothing,
26:33and I don't know what to do.
26:35Except that life's short,
26:37and I think I'm a good worker,
26:39in some ways.
26:41Maybe I'll still get a chance.
26:43Where do we go, Martin?
26:45I have the slightest idea
26:47of where I can be useful.
26:49Gee, it's fierce being married.
26:51Here I expected to be a pillar
26:53of the community.
26:55Now I'll have to follow you out on the road
26:57and be a hobo.
26:59Well, I'm too lazy to look up a new husband.
27:05Martin.
27:07Yeah?
27:09Remember that oath Dr. Gottlieb gave you?
27:11The first night we were together,
27:13you told it to me.
27:15Say it again, Martin.
27:17Now.
27:19All right, I'll try.
27:21I don't know if I can remember it.
27:23Tina.
27:25God give me
27:27unclouded eyes
27:31and freedom from hate
27:33God give me
27:35quiet and relentless
27:37anger against all
27:39pretense and all
27:41pretentious work
27:43and all work
27:45left slack and unfinished
27:49God give me a restlessness
27:51whereby I may neither sleep
27:53nor accept praise
27:55till my observed
27:57results equal my calculated
27:59results
28:01or in pious
28:03glee I discover
28:05and assault my error
28:09God give me strength
28:11not to trust
28:13God
28:31You are listening
28:33to the Campbell Playhouse
28:35presentation of Arrowsmith
28:37starring Helen Hayes
28:39and Orson Welles.
28:41This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
29:01This is Ernest Chappell welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.
29:03In a moment or two we will resume our presentation
29:05of Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
29:07starring Helen Hayes
29:09and Orson Welles.
29:11This is a play about doctors
29:13and the doctor is one servant of humanity
29:15we all know and respect
29:17and in our varying ways
29:19appreciate.
29:21This is a play about doctors
29:23and the doctor is one servant of humanity
29:25we all know and respect
29:27and in our varying ways
29:29appreciate.
29:31Of course Dr. Arrowsmith
29:33is a research man
29:35and the doctor you and I know best is a general
29:37practitioner, a family doctor.
29:39But both of them work for the greater
29:41health and happiness of humanity
29:43one in his laboratory, the other right
29:45here in our homes.
29:47The family doctor keeps a vigilant eye
29:49on the welfare of our children, advises us
29:51on their sleep and exercise
29:53and their diet. Most doctors
29:55for instance agree that every
29:57boy or girl should have at least a quart of milk
29:59each day.
30:01In this connection I'd like to tell you of a
30:03pleasant and practical way to give your children
30:05more milk. Have
30:07cream soup frequently.
30:09Nearly every youngster is fond
30:11of soup, especially such favorites
30:13as Campbell's tomato
30:15or pea or celery or asparagus.
30:17Simply make them
30:19extra nourishing by adding
30:21good wholesome milk instead of water.
30:23I'm sure it'll do your heart good
30:25to see how children go for any of them
30:27because you know they are getting the good
30:29food value of soup
30:31and the high nutritional benefits of milk.
30:33Let me repeat the soups I mentioned
30:35before. Campbell's tomato soup,
30:37Campbell's pea soup, Campbell's
30:39celery soup, Campbell's asparagus soup.
30:41I wish I had
30:43the time to describe each of them to you
30:45but I urge you to serve them
30:47and find out for yourself how good they are.
30:49And remember, when combined
30:51with milk, each of them becomes
30:53still more nourishing.
30:55And now we resume our Campbell
30:57Playhouse presentation of Arrowsmith
30:59starring Helen Hayes and Orson
31:01Wells.
31:08Through Dr. Gottlieb
31:12I got a position at the
31:14McGurk Institute in New York.
31:18My laboratory there was the finest I'd
31:20ever seen. I had a trained assistant. I had
31:23all the apparatus known to research.
31:25And in the midst of all this
31:27white tile scientific
31:29splendor,
31:31Dr. Gottlieb was waiting for me.
31:33Martin! Oh, Dr. Gottlieb!
31:35Oh, Martin, this is very good.
31:37You are near to me. My laboratory
31:39is just three doors down the hall. You tell him how grateful
31:41I am to you, Dr. Gottlieb. Oh, gratitude, pa.
31:43Um, how is that girl
31:45you married? She's fine, doctor.
31:47I have an idea she's good for you,
31:49that little girl. Yeah, she'll make you work.
31:51Look here, Dr. Gottlieb.
31:53Do you really think I know enough
31:55to work here? I want terribly
31:57to succeed. Uh,
31:59succeed? I've heard that
32:01word. Um, it
32:03is English? Oh, yeah.
32:05It is a word that little school
32:07boys use at the University of, uh,
32:09Winnemeck. It means
32:11passing examinations.
32:13But, Martin, let us be clear.
32:15You know something
32:17of laboratory technique.
32:19You have heard about these, Bacilli.
32:21You are not a good chemist
32:23and mathematics, poorly most terrible.
32:25But, uh,
32:27you have curiosity and you are stubborn.
32:29Therefore, I think
32:31you will either make a very good scientist
32:33or a very bad one.
32:35Uh, this is your chance
32:37to find out, Aerosmith.
32:39I went to work that year
32:41trying to produce a more effective
32:43antitoxin for treatment of tropical
32:45diseases.
32:47I fumbled
32:49at first. I made vast experiments
32:51with no results. I tried again.
32:53Day after day,
32:55week after week,
32:57once
32:59for a few hours
33:01after another,
33:03for a few days
33:05after another,
33:07for a few hours
33:09I thought I had found something.
33:11Martin, you're home early.
33:13Yeah, I guess I am.
33:15I'm just up already, but I'll make it right away.
33:17You probably want to get back in a hurry, huh?
33:19No, I'm not going back to lab.
33:21Not tonight, Leora.
33:23Tell you what, let's go out to dinner
33:25and the movies or something, huh?
33:27Martin, what's the matter?
33:29Do you suddenly feel that you had to entertain me?
33:31I didn't want to go back to lab.
33:33I don't know if I ever want to go back.
33:35But Martin, your experiment...
33:37Today I thought I'd made some progress. I took my notes
33:39to Dr. Gottlieb. He showed me my mistake.
33:41Leora, I'm tired out.
33:43In eight months here
33:45at McGurk, I've done nothing. I haven't been worth my keep.
33:47Has the director said anything to you? No.
33:49Has Dr. Gottlieb... No, they're all kind and patient,
33:51but Leora, they
33:53expect me to accomplish something.
33:55But you have, Martin. You're antitoxin.
33:57You've almost got it. Yes, almost,
33:59but you can't inoculate people with
34:01a serum that's almost right. I
34:03can't just go on forever experimenting
34:05and failing every time. I'm beginning to think
34:07I've got the habit of failing. Martin,
34:09listen to me.
34:11You put that coat back on.
34:13What? I'm not
34:15cooking supper tonight, and I'm not going out to eat with you.
34:17You'll go right back to that lab
34:19and keep trailing after those little bugs.
34:21And you're going to forget about me like you usually do.
34:23And when you come home at midnight,
34:25there'll be a plate of sandwiches on the table here.
34:27And then if you've been real good,
34:29you can go to bed.
34:31Now go on. Put on your coat.
34:35It was that night I noticed a curious thing.
34:37Almost under my eyes, a flask of cloudy bacteria
34:39suddenly cleared some unknown organism
34:41and destroyed the germs in my culture.
34:43So I spent five days and five nights in the lab,
34:45and Leora slipped in with sandwiches and coffee,
34:47and then slipped out again unnoticed.
34:49And on the evening of the fifth day, I isolated the germ killers.
34:51I called it the X principle.
34:53I went out, got drunk,
34:55and I slept for two days.
34:57The third day, I went back to the McGurk Institute.
34:59There was a message from Dr. Gottlieb to go and see him.
35:01Well, Martin,
35:03I have something I must say to you.
35:05Mr. McGurk
35:07has talked to me.
35:09He has heard of this discovery of yours,
35:11this X principle.
35:13He's very happy.
35:15He wishes to establish you here,
35:17for you a new department of pathology
35:19with you as head.
35:21What shall I do, Dr. Gottlieb?
35:23Shall I accept?
35:25No, Martin, I don't think you will.
35:27Why not?
35:29Shouldn't I?
35:31Something sort of bad,
35:33well, perhaps not altogether bad,
35:35has happened.
35:37Bad? Well, what is it?
35:39Oh, in a way, it is a pity, Martin,
35:41what I have to tell you.
35:43You are not the discoverer of the X principle.
35:45What?
35:47Someone else has done it.
35:49They have not.
35:51I've searched all literature,
35:53and except for Bernstein, not one person has even...
35:56Good Lord, Dr. Gottlieb,
35:58mean that all I've done
36:00all these months has just been wasted.
36:02And I'm a fool.
36:04Well, anyway, Dubois
36:06of the Pasteur Institute has just now
36:08published in the Comte Rondeau this report.
36:10It is your X principle
36:12absolute.
36:14Only he calls it bacteriophage.
36:18Lord, maybe I ought to care, but...
36:20Of course, you could claim to be
36:22co-discoverer and spend the rest
36:24of your life fighting to get recognized,
36:26or you could forget it
36:28and write a nice letter
36:30congratulating Dubois
36:32and go back to work.
36:34I'll go back to work.
36:36Nothing else to do.
36:38I guess McGurk will chuck the new department now.
36:40Oh, yeah, there's no doubt.
36:42I'll have time to finish
36:44my research. Maybe I'll get some points
36:46that Dubois hasn't hit on,
36:48and I'll publish it to corroborate him.
36:50Give me the report,
36:52doctor, I suppose.
36:54I suppose now you're glad
36:56that I'm saved from being a success.
36:58Well, I ought to be.
37:00It is a sin against my religion that I am not.
37:02But I am
37:04getting old, and you are my friend.
37:06I am sorry
37:08that you are not to have the fun of being
37:10pretentious and successful
37:12for a while.
37:14Martin,
37:16it is nice that you will cooperate Dubois.
37:18That is science.
37:20To work and not to care
37:22too much
37:24if somebody else gets the credit.
37:26So
37:28now I threw myself into the task of
37:30making a serum to combat all kinds of
37:32diseases. I immunized rabbits against
37:34pneumonia and found that the immunity spread to
37:36other rabbits. Then I injected rats with
37:38deadly bubonic germs and
37:40produced an immunity to the plague.
37:42My lab became known as the Pest House.
37:44I practically lived in it.
37:46Then one day a visitor came to
37:48the institute.
37:50How are you, my boy?
37:52That night we drank so much lager.
37:54I remember.
37:56I had to carry you to the hotel.
37:58Well, Doctor, I had a notion it was the other way around.
38:00No matter. We help each other.
38:02Well, what did I tell you, Alice?
38:04You belong in such a place as this.
38:06Chasing diseases off the earth.
38:08They tell me you've made a fine serum.
38:10I'm still making it.
38:12How would you like me to help you, Martin?
38:14Oh, no, no. Not here in the laboratory.
38:16The world. The place where we fight
38:18the plagues like bubonic.
38:20It's now on the island of St. Hubert.
38:22Soon it may spread through the West Indies.
38:24From there, who knows?
38:26Thanks, Sundar. I have to finish my experiment.
38:28I'm still not sure of my serum.
38:30Maybe later. Oh, Martin, listen to me.
38:32You can be sure of your serum only
38:34one way, by testing it. I know, but...
38:36Not on guinea pigs, on human beings.
38:38My boy.
38:40Come with Sundar to St. Hubert.
38:42I couldn't promise. I have to speak to Dr. Gottlieb.
38:44I've spoken to them already.
38:46Yes, we've been plotting against you.
38:48My boat leaves day after tomorrow.
38:50Martin, we'll have such good fun.
38:52And maybe we wipe out
38:54old devil bubonic. Huh?
38:59I'm going with you, Martin.
39:01No, Leora, you're not going with me.
39:03Well, I am.
39:05It's not safe, Leora. Really, of course it is.
39:07You can shoot your old serum into me.
39:09Then I'll be absolutely all right.
39:11Oh, I have a husband who cures things I have.
39:13I'm going to blow in a lot of money on thin dresses.
39:15Though I bet St. Hubert isn't one bit
39:17hotter than Dakota on an awkward day.
39:19Listen, Leora, darling, listen. I do think the serum
39:21will immunize against the plague.
39:23You bet I'll be mighty well injected with it myself.
39:25But I don't know.
39:27Even if it were practically perfect,
39:29there'd always be some people who wouldn't protect her.
39:32You simply can't go, sweet.
39:34Martin, don't you know
39:36I haven't any life outside of you?
39:38I might have had, but honestly,
39:40I've been glad to let you absorb me.
39:42I'm lazy and useless
39:44and ignorant, except as maybe I can keep you
39:46comfortable.
39:48If you were off there, and I didn't know
39:50you were all right, or if you
39:52died and somebody else
39:54cared for your body that I've loved so,
39:56I'd go mad.
39:58I mean it. Can't you see I mean it?
40:00I'd go mad.
40:02It's just, I'm you.
40:04And I've got to be with you.
40:06And I will help you make your serum and everything.
40:08You know how often I've helped you.
40:10Maybe you wouldn't find anybody that could help you,
40:12even my little bit.
40:14Darling, don't make it harder for me.
40:16It's going to be hard enough in any case.
40:18Martin, don't you dare use those old
40:20stuck-up expressions that husbands have been
40:22drooling out to wives forever and ever.
40:24I'm not a wife, any more than you're a husband.
40:26Oh, you're a rotten husband.
40:28You neglect me, absolutely.
40:30The only time you know what I've got on
40:32is when some button slips
40:34and then you bawl me out.
40:36But I don't care. I'd rather have you
40:39than a good husband.
40:43Besides, I'm going.
40:49Dr. Gottlieb.
40:51Yeah, yeah. Who is it?
40:53It's me, Dr. Gottlieb.
40:55I've come to say goodbye.
40:57Goodbye?
40:59Yeah.
41:01Oh, that has such a final sound.
41:03But perhaps you're right.
41:05Perhaps we don't see each other again.
41:07Aerosmith, I am growing old
41:09and I have my worries.
41:11You are a man
41:13and you are a genuine worker now.
41:15But
41:17don't mind if I give you some advice.
41:19Dr. Gottlieb, no, I don't.
41:21Be sure
41:23you don't let anything,
41:25not even your own kind heart,
41:27spoil your experiment
41:29at St. Hubert.
41:31Remember to use the serum with only half
41:33your patients and keep the others as
41:35controls under normal hygienic conditions
41:37but without the serum.
41:39Pay no attention to what
41:41Sandelius says.
41:43He is a great man, but he is not a
41:45scientist.
41:47So many men, Martin, are kind and
41:49neighborly. So
41:51few have added to knowledge.
41:53You have the chance.
41:55You may be the man that ends
41:57all plague.
41:59You must have pity
42:01but not for those you see
42:03dying.
42:05You must have pity for generation
42:07after generation yet to come.
42:09That is your work, Martin.
42:11And
42:13whatever God there is,
42:15may he bless you.
42:17I promise to do what you say, doctor.
42:19Well, maybe old Gottlieb will have
42:21help too, maybe.
42:29Leon and I
42:31sailed the next day from Hoboken.
42:35Very late one night,
42:37ten days later,
42:39our ship dropped anchor in the harbor of St. Hubert.
42:41The island
42:43was quarantined, so no one
42:45was taken on board. Sandelius,
42:47Leora, and I stood alone
42:49on the deck.
42:51On shore, we spied a few lights.
42:53One appeared to be moving toward us, but
42:55most of the town was dark.
42:57Dark and still.
42:59Hey there!
43:01How are you?
43:02North of the Gulf Commission?
43:03Yeah.
43:04Good.
43:05Ready to take you ashore. I'll come over to your hand.
43:07Thanks.
43:11You're the port doctor?
43:12No, not exactly.
43:14I'm Dr. Stokes of St. Swithin Parish.
43:16For all of us, almost
43:18everything nowadays.
43:20The port doctor died a couple days ago.
43:22How many bubonic cases you got
43:24now? Lord knows.
43:26Maybe a thousand.
43:28Ten million rats.
43:30So sleepy.
43:32Well,
43:34better be going ashore.
43:36Here, I'll help you with your bag.
43:38Listen, Leora.
43:40You'd better stay on the ship.
43:42You'd better not come, see? Please don't.
43:44Not come?
43:46And me, the secretary and technical assistant
43:48of the McGirt Commission?
43:50Oh, Martin.
43:52Yes, Doc?
43:54Gosh,
43:56I'm scared blue.
44:01The next morning, we awoke in a bungalow
44:03at the edge of the town.
44:05The port doctor had lived there, but he went out one morning
44:07and never came back.
44:09After breakfast,
44:11we walked down a silent street.
44:13House shutters were closed.
44:15There was a crying
44:17woman and a bewildered child.
44:19I remember following an open
44:21wagon on which were heaped a dozen stiff
44:23bodies.
44:25That afternoon, I started to inject, as
44:27Gottlieb had instructed me,
44:29every other man.
44:31Sondalia strapped his wrists,
44:33put on high boots, and made ready
44:35for his rat crusade.
44:37Today, my friends, I'm Sondalia's captain
44:39general of rat killers.
44:41If there were no rats, there'd be no bugs carrying bubonic.
44:43But I fix them.
44:45I walk into a place and the rats say,
44:47here's that old Uncle Gustav.
44:49Well, what's the use? And they turn up their toes
44:51and die.
44:53Well, goodbye.
44:55Hey, Gustav. Yeah, what is it?
44:57You're not going out, Gustav, until you've had an injection of germ.
44:59Come on over here. No, Martin.
45:01Not until you give up your experiment
45:03and promise to inject all of these people.
45:05Every one of them.
45:07I know what Gottlieb told you.
45:09Refuse to inoculate part of the people, use them for
45:11controls, for guinea pigs.
45:13Pay no attention to that wild man, Sondalias.
45:15He's no scientist.
45:17I say to Gottlieb, humanity is more important
45:19than science. Science is for humanity,
45:22not just these people here.
45:24Please, Sondalias, do as Martin says.
45:26No, Leora.
45:28I'll do anything for you, but not that.
45:30Well, goodbye, children.
45:32I now go out to fight the rats.
45:34I shall break all the laws of poverty.
45:36I shall set fire to warehouses.
45:38I shall even burn villages.
45:40I shall drive out the rats from their hiding places.
45:42Then, I shall have my fun.
45:44I shall slaughter rats with clubs.
45:46I'll shoot them with guns, poison them with gas,
45:48and then when I come back, we drink and we celebrate.
45:52A week later, we found Sondalias.
45:56He was lying on the ground.
45:58His eyes was bloodshot.
46:00Yeah.
46:02We had a fine time with the rats here, Gottlieb.
46:06Yeah, I like my new village.
46:08Gustav, what's the trouble?
46:10Your eyes.
46:12You have a fever.
46:16I think it's got me.
46:18Some flea got me.
46:20Flea from one of those rats.
46:22I was just thinking I'll go and quarantine myself.
46:26Yeah, I feel all right.
46:28Lord, Martin, I am so weak.
46:30Not scared, no.
46:32I'm going to take you home, Gustav.
46:34I'll nurse you.
46:36No, I have isolated too many.
46:38It is my turn.
46:40Martin, Gottlieb is right about these jests of the gods.
46:44The best one is the tropics.
46:46Gods plan them so beautifully.
46:48They made the flowers and sea and mountains.
46:50They made the fruit to grow so well
46:52that man did not work and then
46:54they left and stuck in volcanoes and snakes
46:56and damp heat and the plague.
47:00The nastiest trick they ever played on men
47:02was inventing the flea.
47:04You better save your strength, Gustav.
47:06I'm going to pull you through.
47:08I'm going to give you a serum right now.
47:10This time you can't stop me.
47:12Martin, do not try to fool me.
47:14It's too late for serum, too late for anything.
47:16Once more I'd like to fish Stockholm
47:18and Fifth Avenue and the Bay
47:20of the first snowfalls
47:22and a whole week at Seville
47:24and one good last drunk.
47:28I'm very peaceful, Martin.
47:30It hurts some, but
47:32life was a good game.
47:36Martin.
47:38Give these poor people a serum.
47:42Save all of them.
47:44Come on, Martin.
47:46Do as I say.
47:48St. Delius became delirious.
47:50Early next morning he died.
47:54From that day I injected everybody
47:56who wanted my serum. I threw away my notes.
47:58I injected as fast as I could
48:00day and night. The plague gradually diminished
48:02and the first boat was scheduled
48:04to clear quarantine in a few days.
48:06My work was almost over.
48:08We watched the ship dock
48:10from the porch of our bungalow.
48:12Martin, Dr. Stokes was here today.
48:14Was he?
48:16Yes, there are some new cases at St. Swithin's.
48:18He believes it's spreading up there.
48:20I'll leave my supply of serum before we go.
48:22Go? When are we going?
48:24We've done all we couldn't since Hubert.
48:26Yes, we've done everything but
48:28what we came down here to do.
48:30Oh, please, dear, don't bring that up again.
48:32You know I couldn't after. You know why.
48:34And what are you going to tell Dr. Gottlieb?
48:36That you failed him?
48:38That's true, isn't it?
48:40The fact that the plague diminished as soon as
48:42I began injecting serum proves...
48:44Proves nothing, Martin. You know that.
48:46Perhaps the epidemic stopped
48:48of its own accord. You don't know.
48:50And you'll never know until you go through with the experiment.
48:52And your last chance at St. Swithin's.
48:54Darling, let me go with you.
48:56Let me help with the injection
48:58and keeping your notes.
49:00Please, Martin.
49:02Let's finish our job.
49:04I have this place ready for you, doctor.
49:06All right.
49:08The trees will keep the sun off you.
49:10There's a line of natives a quarter of a mile long.
49:12All right, Stokes, let's begin.
49:14Leora, soap and alcohol. Right arms.
49:16Yes, Martin.
49:18Stokes, get your troops in a circle around the grove.
49:20We may need them. Keep two lit.
49:22One that I inject, one that I don't.
49:24Right, doctor. Sergeants, you write the names down
49:26as I call them out.
49:28Yes, sir. I'm ready.
49:30Come on. Move up one at a time.
49:32Every other one here.
49:34Every other one on that side.
49:36You're right on there. Now the doctor...
49:38That's it. No, still.
49:40Oh!
49:42May I have my stick?
49:44Maybe. Hope so. Move on.
49:46John Clements. Take it down, sergeant.
49:48John Clements. Hold back. Don't crowd.
49:50No changing faces.
49:52Just a drive.
49:54Get your way, Dr. Stokes. Stay on us.
49:56Back there.
49:58I'll shoot the first man who gets out of line.
50:00Now move up one at a time.
50:06All right.
50:08That's all for now. Come back in an hour
50:10after lunch.
50:12Leora.
50:14Leora, what's the matter?
50:16Nothing, darling.
50:18Just a little tired, I guess.
50:20No wonder, you poor kid.
50:22I'm gonna take you home, put you to bed.
50:24You'll do no such thing.
50:26You're going to finish your experiment.
50:29One more day and you'll work safe.
50:31Nothing's going to stop you now.
50:33Well, I'll have Stokes take you down to the bungalow.
50:35Nonsense. You'll meet him here.
50:37I know my way.
50:39What better to be afraid of?
50:41Darling, you're not afraid of anything.
50:43Yes, one thing, Martin.
50:45I'd be afraid if anything happened to this experiment.
50:47It's so near.
50:49And it's our big chance, darling.
50:51It's everything we've been working towards.
50:53It's our whole lives.
50:55Huh?
50:57Well, I'll be going now.
50:59I'll come down to the house as soon as I finish.
51:01Oh.
51:03Oh, just one thing, Martin.
51:05I forgot my second shot of serum yesterday.
51:07Get out your needle, doctor.
51:11Darling, give me your arm.
51:15I love your arm.
51:17There.
51:19I love you, Martin.
51:21And thanks for bringing me here.
51:23Thanks for...
51:25Well, for everything.
51:27You're thanking me.
51:29Oh, darling.
51:31But you don't know what it means for someone like me
51:33who doesn't amount to so much
51:35getting a chance to be with somebody who does.
51:37Oh, Martin,
51:39I'm so proud of you
51:41and what you've done.
51:43Darling, if there's anything we've accomplished here
51:45or anywhere,
51:47it's not mine or yours.
51:49It's ours together.
51:51Say, why are we talking this way to each other?
51:55Leora,
51:57is something wrong?
51:59Of course not.
52:01It was silly talk, wasn't it?
52:03But I wouldn't have missed it.
52:07I wouldn't have missed anything, Martin.
52:09Not anything
52:11in our whole life.
52:21That night
52:23I injected the last native,
52:27collected my notes,
52:29and Stokes drove me back to the bungalow.
52:33On the bed across the folds
52:35of torn mosquito netting,
52:37I found
52:39Leora's body.
52:41Very frail
52:43and very still.
52:47I talked to her.
52:51I told her everything.
52:55I...
52:57I don't know what I said.
53:01And that evening I dug a deep pit
53:03in the garden and carried her there.
53:07A high and windy garden looking toward the sea.
53:13I don't remember how I left the island,
53:15how I got back to New York,
53:17how my notes got published,
53:19how I started working again.
53:21I don't remember.
53:24And now
53:26I'm standing in this great hall
53:30and I have a scroll of parchment in my hand.
53:34I know that the world has just
53:36honored my work
53:40and that this is the
53:44loneliest day of my life.
53:49The End
53:57You have just been listening to the
53:59Campbell Playhouse production of
54:01Arrowsmith, starring Helen Hayes
54:03and Orson Welles.
54:05And here he is,
54:07Orson Welles.
54:09Ladies and gentlemen, The Road.
54:11The Road, which is what actors
54:13call the theater outside of New York,
54:15has had its ups and downs, as you know.
54:17The last two years,
54:19during which Miss Hayes has brought her
54:21wonderful performances, Victoria
54:23and Victoria Regina, to 45 cities
54:25all over the nation,
54:27must definitely be called an up.
54:29Miss Hayes
54:31concluded her engagement in Victoria only last
54:33Saturday, after making Theatrical History.
54:35Thank you, Orson.
54:37Very great honor
54:39to have her with us tonight and
54:41I'd like you to meet her.
54:43And Helen, I'm sure that everyone in the theater
54:45who goes to the theater is curious about your plans
54:47for the future.
54:49What are you going to do next?
54:51I'm going to take a darn good rest.
54:53With your permission, Miss Hayes,
54:55I'll tell our audience what a rest
54:57means to you. It means, ladies and gentlemen,
54:59going back to being Mrs. Charles
55:01MacArthur, taking care of
55:03two children and a house overlooking the Hudson
55:05River at Nyack, New York, and of course
55:07overseeing the family
55:09farm in the hills a few miles away.
55:11Miss Hayes, am I
55:13correctly informed that the MacArthur family
55:15even goes so far as to grow
55:17its own milk? Mm-hmm, we do have
55:19four jerseys. And we hope
55:21that by economy and careful management, we
55:23can eventually get the cost of our milk down to a
55:25dollar a quart. I hope you do, Mrs. MacArthur.
55:27And I hope even more
55:29that Helen Hayes will very soon be back
55:31with another play as fine as Victoria Regina.
55:33And
55:35on behalf of my sponsors,
55:37the makers of Campbell Soups, and all of us
55:39in the Campbell Playhouse, I want to thank you for coming here
55:41tonight.
55:43And now, here's Ernest Chappell.
55:49In a moment or two, Orson Welles
55:51will bring us news of next week's story.
55:53A little while ago,
55:55I spoke of the excellent flavor of Campbell's
55:57tomato soup. It is this flavor
55:59that has made tomato soup the most
56:01popular soup in all the world,
56:03more often served and eaten than any other.
56:05It is this flavor, too, that accounts
56:07for the fact that tomato soup is seldom
56:09made at home. You see,
56:11the delicious taste of Campbell's tomato
56:13soup is so widely known, so well
56:15liked, that women have come to feel
56:17that making tomato soup at home
56:19is a task that they can dispense
56:21with. Indeed, women everywhere
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56:27soup. So whether you make
56:29soup at home or not, here's one
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56:33Your family will like Campbell's
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56:38they'll like to have it often.
56:40They'll delight in the sunny, glowing red
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56:50Why don't you and your family enjoy this great
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56:56tomato soup.
57:05In tonight's presentation in the
57:07Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles and our guest
57:09Helen Hayes was heard in the roles
57:11of Martin Aerosmith and Leora.
57:13Professor Gottlieb was played by Ray
57:15Collins, Thundalus was played by
57:17Frank Reddick, Mr. Tozer by
57:19Everett Sloan, Al Swenson
57:21played Henry Novak, Effie Palmer
57:23played Mrs. Tozer, and Carl Frank
57:25was Dr. Stokes. Music for the
57:27Campbell Playhouse was arranged and conducted
57:29by Bernard Herman.
57:31And now, Orson Welles, will you tell us about
57:33next week's show? Well, next week
57:35our story is the classic shocker.
57:37The saga of an airplane that
57:39crashed into the private mountains
57:41of a well-mannered Rajah
57:43whose wickedest word was
57:45law somewhere
57:47east of the sun and west of the moon.
57:49The Green Goddess
57:51starring Madeleine Carroll
57:53who will be saved from my clutches
57:55in the nick of time. Until that
57:57fateful hour on this same
57:59station, my sponsor
58:01makers of Campbell soups
58:03and all of us in the Campbell Playhouse
58:05remain
58:07obediently yours.
58:11The makers of Campbell soups
58:13join Orson Welles in inviting you to be with us
58:15at the Campbell Playhouse next Friday evening
58:17to hear the Green Goddess starring
58:19Madeleine Carroll. Meanwhile, if you've
58:21enjoyed tonight's Campbell Playhouse presentation
58:23won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow
58:25when you order Campbell tomato soup?
58:27This is Ernest Chappell saying
58:29thank you and good night.
58:31This is the Columbia
58:33Broadcasting System.