Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen of America. Tonight's sears, Roebuck.
Speaker 2: And Company celebrates the Fistius Anniversary by presenting the first
Speaker 2: of a new series of programs dedicated to you, the
Speaker 2: people of America, Then.
Speaker 3: And Now, a Santa Rama of American destiny, a review
Speaker 3: of the past fifty years for which the Robuck Company
Speaker 3: has probably grown up with America. Each week, Sennah Now
Speaker 3: will recreate for you, in music, in drama, in song,
Speaker 3: the unforgettable events of the past half tensury. Each week's
Speaker 3: famous Mogonti discards, composers, singers, the world's greatest talent will
Speaker 3: be brought into your home by Sirs.
Speaker 1: Robuck and Company. The store We're all America's Jock.
Speaker 3: Here's Roebuck and Company has called to present on Tonight's
Speaker 3: premiere broadcast.
Speaker 1: Mister Robert Montgomery, Let's put all the mayors a.
Speaker 2: Miss Constant Bennett of twentieth Century Fox, Mister Fredstone beloves
Speaker 2: either of Broadway, Miss Pollastone, Hollywood, Hugh Start, Mister Walter Hampton,
Speaker 2: Dean of the American Theater, and Tonight, for the first
Speaker 2: time on the air, a gramorization from the novel which
Speaker 2: is thrilling one hundreds of thousands of Americans gone with
Speaker 2: the winds. Eighteen eighty six, America's got two miracles that year.
Speaker 1: One was the.
Speaker 3: Statue of Liberty with French senters for our hundredth birthday.
Speaker 3: The other was the electric light, a young inventor by
Speaker 3: the name of Edison, installed in the uplicted hand of.
Speaker 1: The Goddess of Liberty.
Speaker 2: Let us look back into the life of this man
Speaker 2: of destiny, to whom America and the world oh so much.
Speaker 1: Mister Walter Hampton plays all of Thomas Elder.
Speaker 3: Edison in his dimmit laboratory, sends the genius Thomas Edison.
Speaker 3: He's in Derby thirty permanently death as a result of
Speaker 3: beating the stage.
Speaker 1: One a small boy. It's a distant John Croty.
Speaker 2: And there's the laboratory Edison busily thinkers with a curious
Speaker 2: looking machine.
Speaker 1: What is it you are working on now, mister Edison?
Speaker 2: Just a minute, John, m hm, you know it's boil
Speaker 2: up plantified room you heart with dire fran he let
Speaker 2: curious looking is?
Speaker 1: I think I got it? So it's time?
Speaker 2: What in Heaven's name is it, mister Edison? I can't
Speaker 2: hear you. I'm not looking at st. John, But if
Speaker 2: you want to know what it is, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: It's something I've been working on in secrets for a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: It's the small prison.
Speaker 2: That's right for locking up the human voice and preserving
Speaker 2: it for posterity.
Speaker 1: I don't get you that, Ron.
Speaker 2: Tell me this is impractical too. This is a little
Speaker 2: device that's going to talk. What cut Your thing is
Speaker 2: not blank because a table that can't talk. There are
Speaker 2: lots of things you don't believe possible.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 2: You know, for instance, that in mischair here there's enough
Speaker 2: energy to run a whole factory.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what makes the little animal called
Speaker 1: man go around? Then? What's the secret of life? Who
Speaker 1: knows it? Priving? You mean, no one. That's why it's
Speaker 1: so fascinating.
Speaker 2: You will realize what it will mean to the world
Speaker 2: if you can capture the human voice and keep it
Speaker 2: in a little box and had it talk whenever we
Speaker 2: wanted to do you realize.
Speaker 1: What that will mean.
Speaker 2: Don't think anything is impossible for I think now, just
Speaker 2: one more tightening this little boat. I read a young.
Speaker 1: Watch me. I turned this little shaft here and I talked.
Speaker 2: Mary had a little lamb. It bleeped while white as slow,
Speaker 2: and ever where that Mary went, that lamb was sure
Speaker 2: to go. Now, let's see whether all my effort is wrong.
Speaker 2: For not, I turned the shaft backward to the starting point,
Speaker 2: IDUs the cube, and once more turn the handle.
Speaker 1: That cost you never.
Speaker 2: I don't care anything, So it doesn't work. I guess
Speaker 2: you're right, Friday, it's impractical. I guess it can't harness sound.
Speaker 1: But mister Everson, it does work. I heard it just
Speaker 1: what you said it to it, the same word, the
Speaker 1: same thing. It's not you. You are not lying to
Speaker 1: me because I heard not. Oh no, mister Edison, I
Speaker 1: was never like to you. You really heard it the
Speaker 1: same world as are the same word? Or do I sound? John?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wonderful? That machine is a success.
Speaker 5: The most amazing, the most fonderful things that the type
Speaker 5: of being created.
Speaker 2: No idea more amazing and wonderful is the thing God created.
Speaker 6: Man immortal parmacetis the death man.
Speaker 3: Who made a machine park, the genius who gave the
Speaker 3: world life, the wizard who performed incredible miracles, Pharmacetism, whose
Speaker 3: dreams have profoundly affected the destiny.
Speaker 1: Of the world. The nineties.
Speaker 3: The can nineties when five they go through a belt FORDO.
Speaker 3: There were no movies in those days, but there were
Speaker 3: mental hides.
Speaker 2: This late evening in the spring of eighteen ninety six,
Speaker 2: speaking along a dirt road in Louisiana, the red.
Speaker 3: And gold wagons of the mcentireon heath Mentrol that nation
Speaker 3: is the little village of Old Town just over the
Speaker 3: next ride a top the lead wagons that Joe Hayden,
Speaker 3: a member of the company, did our mets, conductor of
Speaker 3: the Mentro.
Speaker 2: Band, and Jim McIntire. Well, boys, we're coming in the
Speaker 2: old und zoon. I wish you boys that song ready
Speaker 2: so we could introduced to as tomorrow night's opening it ready.
Speaker 2: You're right mate, don't.
Speaker 1: You worry about that? It's said tatoo. That's worrying. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll call it the song with all the title if necessary?
Speaker 1: Pretty much? Hey, look down there in Neveda is a fire.
Speaker 1: Why did the town on fire? Well? Well, there are
Speaker 1: half time and old uns to night? All right? What's it?
Speaker 1: Have you born? Crazy? Title?
Speaker 6: Given us the title what time in.
Speaker 4: The Old Town to night?
Speaker 1: When you the monocot meaning all going.
Speaker 2: Wrong and bringing you must sing and when the wool
Speaker 2: and all going in the way of time, your.
Speaker 1: Pal here it again. An obscure little town in.
Speaker 3: Louisiana was the first to throb to the Ketyan poobul
Speaker 3: out of Hot.
Speaker 1: Prime in the Old Town.
Speaker 3: For two years, the minstrels toured the country singing it,
Speaker 3: popularizing it wherever they went. But it needed a sudden
Speaker 3: shock of a tragic event to lift the song to
Speaker 3: its place in the pattern of America's destiny.
Speaker 2: US naval based reporting, the United States battleship Maine was
Speaker 2: blown up in Havana Harbor last night. The circumstances of
Speaker 2: the explosion are extremely mysterious, and the government has ordered
Speaker 2: an immediately.
Speaker 3: The blue ster that volunteers have ninety eight marched off
Speaker 3: the Cuba to the town of hop Prime in the
Speaker 3: Old Town.
Speaker 1: They whistled it in a jungle camp. They sang it
Speaker 1: as a god dumptown on hill. They needed the song
Speaker 1: of the Spanish American War nineteen four, they America turned
Speaker 1: for the same news expedition. In celebration of the hundreds.
Speaker 3: Anniversary of the Louisiana Persons, thousands of thousands of people
Speaker 3: panned the way into the paradels that hot cover, eager
Speaker 3: to see how far America has come.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Before you is the famous written a
Speaker 2: lot of mobile older of the world's long distance records
Speaker 2: of over one thousand miles. Yes mean practical one moment,
Speaker 2: old timer. This card drove all the way from New
Speaker 2: York just to come to the.
Speaker 1: Exposition that the heart that tired po in spite of
Speaker 1: the derision which greeted the automobile in nineteen four it
Speaker 1: is indeed here to stay and it's coming.
Speaker 3: Developed an industry which was to be digetic even among
Speaker 3: the colossal industrial combinations of those early nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2: This was an age of leisurely living and a cold
Speaker 2: bottles and the birds. The picture had some harvel skirts.
Speaker 1: When the holding walls is of the castle house.
Speaker 3: Orchestra gave way to the toe tickling rhythms of frank time.
Speaker 3: The campl quicking life was James Cafay the world Das
Speaker 3: was talking about on the.
Speaker 1: Edge of Within three shork years, America came of age
Speaker 1: the World War. To me, missus La Gresham, you know
Speaker 1: a telegram, I.
Speaker 4: Don't have my lasser.
Speaker 5: It's in the setadary of war he says, regrets to
Speaker 5: inform you that your son, then Dresham, was the first
Speaker 5: American soldier who to be killers in the world.
Speaker 1: My supericized with the.
Speaker 3: Jazz age, what's your frenzy, frostword puzzles, Bruno Valentino, Battle
Speaker 3: bottom trousers, King Cut, the Tamil Swimmers, Bess Radio, And
Speaker 3: out of the restless moil of twentieth century cirbulents came
Speaker 3: the story of a beautiful friendship and a heartrending tragedy.
Speaker 7: Lot of fighting.
Speaker 3: Frontway places on their plane and you want to go
Speaker 3: how to go to the pretty cooking the flow the walls.
Speaker 1: Hello, Oh that's you call us? Yes, this is Will Rodgers.
Speaker 4: Our bread feelings don't just can't tell how Daddy was
Speaker 4: yet there We're looking to the best.
Speaker 8: Listen out out this job is three tears. I read
Speaker 8: in the paper that they don't call the whole thing off.
Speaker 4: That's what the just started last night.
Speaker 8: Well, uh, you tell those birds and New York that
Speaker 8: I'm going to buy some California pink hips and to
Speaker 8: the bed gets Well, tell him, uh might not dance.
Speaker 8: It's funny, but I've seen his vow of bread and
Speaker 8: said that not to take so hard, because oh Chuck,
Speaker 8: you'll be up from Nason again.
Speaker 1: Don't die, thank you, I will.
Speaker 2: The nation's thrilled as Will Rogers rush to New York
Speaker 2: to fill in for his injured friends. America loved Will
Speaker 2: Rogers as I never loved anyone else. America was unprepared
Speaker 2: for that tragic summer day when Will Rogers flew off
Speaker 2: to a final landing. This is Fedstone's speaking friends, This
Speaker 2: is Will rogers spots. But nobody can tink ship for
Speaker 2: Will Rogers. For if Will was here, he'd be on
Speaker 2: this program. The panorama of the America of the last
Speaker 2: fifty years just has to include Will. It was you,
Speaker 2: Will who gave America an inspiration she never had known before.
Speaker 2: Your philosophy, your thinking, your little homespun sayings were bred
Speaker 2: in the stile of this Nathan. You were America, Will,
Speaker 2: and you were my friends. So I know you will
Speaker 2: understand about me taking your spot tonight. They didn't know
Speaker 2: of anyone else to get, and I wanted so much
Speaker 2: to do it for you to return a beautiful favors.
Speaker 2: So if you let my daughter Paula and me go
Speaker 2: on for you, Bill, Indie Road, New York is remarkable.
Speaker 1: Ferry. The names on the lampos is unnecessary.
Speaker 4: You merely have sputy the girls to know what reager
Speaker 4: are this.
Speaker 9: Aven new Beauty and zero Broadmakers and Naylor makee Joffers
Speaker 9: the Abbey new Makers. They're strictly all right, the circummer
Speaker 9: and wiping in the differn.
Speaker 1: I just talk you.
Speaker 10: Mom a bow and not mine.
Speaker 4: You cannot be everyone in.
Speaker 1: Under corn he your mean y man gay mammy in
Speaker 1: a hard queen.
Speaker 7: Many May twenty first, nineteen twenty.
Speaker 3: Seven, yank you stad him In New York City were
Speaker 3: forty thousand rabbit pip fans gathered to witness the dim
Speaker 3: below he deck Cockypce, the winner of which was to
Speaker 3: meet Jack Empape.
Speaker 7: Target the Hormoney places, Sirs of hard life and lesson.
Speaker 1: He's making monium the pont and his going away with
Speaker 1: one two one to one too, just like that and
Speaker 1: look for all the fall and go on.
Speaker 3: Believe you be both up wait the winner, Patties and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Joe Huls is just sep in the rain. This is
Speaker 1: very unusual for Joey's going to make.
Speaker 10: When house put in the midst of this night, ath.
Speaker 11: Man coma quiet, please please get three teams from mile
Speaker 11: less report that a young man kis apartment and they
Speaker 11: are plans across the ocean alone.
Speaker 10: He fron somewhere over the hope with the seat and
Speaker 10: the same here it's CALLI Cally, Callie.
Speaker 1: Listen for now.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna ask you, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't
Speaker 11: find me and I don't think the two fighters leaders
Speaker 11: the call re quiet for one minute.
Speaker 4: He got to get the boy a house and square.
Speaker 4: I thought of you who f that out?
Speaker 10: Just requiet anyway, m hmmm.
Speaker 3: Twenty hours later, the Lone Eagles dropped under the French
Speaker 3: guy to a memorable landing in Paris and placed his
Speaker 3: name besides those of Columbus, Mademon, Harry and Paris.
Speaker 1: And Today?
Speaker 2: What interests America? What people fascinate her? What books drove her?
Speaker 2: What is America thinking? A more sober, more reflective America.
Speaker 2: Read such historical novels as Gone.
Speaker 1: With the Winds by Margaret Mitchell, a scene.
Speaker 2: From which is dramatized for the first time on the
Speaker 2: air with Miss Thompson's Bennett at Scarlett o'hira and mister
Speaker 2: Robert Montgomery as West butler Gone with the Wind the
Speaker 2: story of Scarla O'Hara.
Speaker 3: The daughter of a stousland Traditions have been gathered by
Speaker 3: the Civil War. Scarlett o'helllla coquett viction, ready to recruit
Speaker 3: every feminine while to achieve her personal pleasures and stability.
Speaker 3: Who married a man she did not love, so fascinated
Speaker 3: by a rest butler's charming scoundrel and blockade runner. Then
Speaker 3: her husband is killed on the evening of his burials,
Speaker 3: Scarlett sits alone in her room along with her scout,
Speaker 3: reactionalizing as her brain insists, unformenting.
Speaker 12: What's a put But did you repeater a man in
Speaker 12: the city? Nothing, Lord controls the n tree. Not you
Speaker 12: enough here, but you do an I caught my really shot,
Speaker 12: got appointee for that. That Appanice is Mary and frank
Speaker 12: And you really up to h I very unhappiness, thought
Speaker 12: like a German. But I really didn't make an entirely unhappy.
Speaker 12: I did my child up? Oh, trying to jo your
Speaker 12: life nice?
Speaker 4: I not putting. I could always find someone who'd let
Speaker 4: me put my head on the clothing. I wouldn't see
Speaker 4: frank kin that look. I wouldn't see him anymore, And I.
Speaker 1: Want to talk with Doll.
Speaker 4: Lying down.
Speaker 1: You'll see me. Tell her I'm going away tomorrow. Tell
Speaker 1: it's terribly important.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be done today. Let's put the mons forbidding
Speaker 4: us until with the shop. I'm coming down there.
Speaker 2: Forgive me the disturbing your scarllet. I'm sorry. I couldn't
Speaker 2: be a Frank funeral. I understand your pardner that pity.
Speaker 4: Oh definitely, I'll close the doors.
Speaker 1: What are you telling me? I want to find out
Speaker 1: what's the matter with you is? Yeah, you know you'll
Speaker 1: tell us in it.
Speaker 12: Last?
Speaker 1: Good on, honey?
Speaker 9: What is it?
Speaker 1: Isn't it more than just old Frank dying?
Speaker 4: I'm a trade out dying, go to hell.
Speaker 1: Maybe there isn't any help, but I know there is,
Speaker 1: But it's right here on it.
Speaker 4: Well, I can. He was married, Frank, he was yellow,
Speaker 4: he was too angry for he loved her nothing. I
Speaker 4: lied to him and I told him she was gonna
Speaker 4: marry from here, and I talked about some ship.
Speaker 1: And that's how you got Frank. I always wondered.
Speaker 4: I made him do all sorts of sinity to the
Speaker 4: very jeep. I was so mean to him, but I
Speaker 4: I really mean my mother was siddized your mother.
Speaker 1: I've often wondered what your mother was like.
Speaker 4: The first time. I'm glad she said because she can't
Speaker 4: see me. He didn't Eve raise me to be mean
Speaker 4: brother I'd have I'd guess, no husband do this. I've
Speaker 4: told him to be like he everywhere, and I'm not
Speaker 4: like her. It's not a beet. Mother died right off
Speaker 4: to the antwerp. I had to turn amerge. I get
Speaker 4: all cool when I think it's I can see all
Speaker 4: everything in the spurn and still there's nothing to eat.
Speaker 4: You know that's it? And I'm being I'm hungry again.
Speaker 4: Go on, I'm hungry in my mind experience I ever
Speaker 4: did out of this, I'll never never be hungry again.
Speaker 4: And then and then the being goes off in extreme infinuence.
Speaker 4: Learned to harden het about the birth, and something is
Speaker 4: taking me. I can't breathe, but you're thinking of I
Speaker 4: can just get the hob to stay. But I don't
Speaker 4: know why I'm trying to get.
Speaker 2: Only let's get the bottom of it. You see, if
Speaker 2: you had it to do over again, you do it differently.
Speaker 2: But would you think now would you?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell me the truth. Hasn't your conscience
Speaker 1: bothered you before this?
Speaker 4: I didn't talk much about conscience before. I guess I'm
Speaker 4: just making God but understand.
Speaker 1: But you don't credit God with understanding why you married
Speaker 1: a friend.
Speaker 4: How can you talk about God and when you don't
Speaker 4: even believe there is?
Speaker 2: You believe in a god of wrath, and that's what's
Speaker 2: important at the moment. I'm surprised that just got us
Speaker 2: a sprout in the conscience this late in life. Opportunities
Speaker 2: like you couldn't have me. Person takes it bage of
Speaker 2: opportunities at all. He's always been held in bad taste
Speaker 2: by those who had the same opportunities it didn't take them. Now,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I came here this eason. I'm
Speaker 2: going away to England and I've got news.
Speaker 1: My news is this.
Speaker 2: I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And now the prank is going. I thought you'd be
Speaker 2: interested to know it.
Speaker 4: Yes, but give them Mont your big man in the world,
Speaker 4: coming ahead of time like this is hardly.
Speaker 1: Means I'm afraid you missed my point.
Speaker 4: I don't miss anything. That don't mean get out here and.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced
Speaker 1: if I knelt down.
Speaker 2: I've always intended having your collar since the first day
Speaker 2: I saw your twelve hope when you're three of ours
Speaker 2: and four are just to prove to me that you
Speaker 2: want the lady.
Speaker 4: You're still calm, just as the river.
Speaker 1: I damn my soul when you're suspicious.
Speaker 2: I'm going away for a long time, and if I
Speaker 2: wait till I return, I'm afraid you have married someone
Speaker 2: else with money. So I thought, why not me and
Speaker 2: my money? Really, scholar, I can't go on all my
Speaker 2: life waiting to catch you between husbands.
Speaker 4: I never married.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes you will. You were born to be married. Drawback,
Speaker 2: you love never loved Frank? Did you ever think of
Speaker 2: marrying just for the.
Speaker 1: Fun of him? Don't talk like a fool. There's no
Speaker 1: fun before. I don't know. Why not try marrying a
Speaker 1: fine young man who has a bad reputation and away
Speaker 1: with women. Yes, you.
Speaker 4: Is gone.
Speaker 1: Fan, gotta say you're marrying her.
Speaker 2: I'll say, around here and play guitar, and you win
Speaker 2: there every night and see at the top of my voyage.
Speaker 1: So you'll marry me to save your reputation.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to marry anything.
Speaker 1: You're a fool.
Speaker 2: You're in my arms now, you're caing to me is
Speaker 2: the only solid thing in the dizzy swam world. You've
Speaker 2: never felt like this before in your whole life. You've
Speaker 2: had this coming to you for years. Some of the
Speaker 2: fool none of the fools you've known, have kissed you
Speaker 2: like this?
Speaker 1: Have they? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Women know, But what do they know about women? What
Speaker 2: do they know about you? I know you two years, scharllege,
Speaker 2: two years?
Speaker 1: You mean it? You don't want to take it back?
Speaker 1: Just why did you say? You? Look at me? Is
Speaker 1: it my money?
Speaker 4: Chus?
Speaker 1: Look up and don't try to sweet talk me.
Speaker 4: I'm love with me? Are you? Why sa you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no
Speaker 2: more than you are with me. And if I were,
Speaker 2: you'd be the last person I'd ever tell. God helps
Speaker 2: a man who ever really loves it.
Speaker 1: You break his heart? My daughter? All right? Let me
Speaker 1: know if you change your mind?
Speaker 4: Well answer to peak a back.
Speaker 2: Do you think you've had enough kissing for one evening
Speaker 2: to think of a modest, well brought up young woman.
Speaker 1: Well? I told you it would be fun, didn't.
Speaker 4: Just impossible? And I don't care if he never come back.
Speaker 1: But I will come back. I will, and you will
Speaker 1: wait until I do. Fifty years ago a man bought
Speaker 1: a watch. It was a good watch.
Speaker 2: That doesn't he ever expected to warn out of a
Speaker 2: low price, and he ever expected to pay. The man
Speaker 2: who bought the watch was Lewis Linderman of North Redwood, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and the man who bought it from was Richard W. Sears,
Speaker 2: founder of Sears Roboton Company. Wherever you are, Lewis Linderman,
Speaker 2: do you please stand up on Seers robut and Companies.
Speaker 2: Golden Jubilee. Fifty thousand Seers employees join in nationwide tributes
Speaker 2: to you, the first Spear's customer, you and Sears robutn Company. No,
Speaker 2: mister Linderman, how far this country has really come?
Speaker 1: Mister Linderman? What kind is this? Is it night fall.
Speaker 7: Or just.
Speaker 1: The door?
Speaker 2: The forward mark of America marking into a new day, grander,
Speaker 2: more beautiful than we have ever known before. Marching marching
Speaker 2: to the music of the sphere and the fifth of
Speaker 2: us Cook, What thank you, mister.
Speaker 1: Hanley, Gone with the wind? The fourth coming Sells Make
Speaker 1: International Production was.
Speaker 2: Presented on the Night's broadcast by special permission of the
Speaker 2: McMillan Company and sells Make Internation Now. Picture is the
Speaker 2: copyright Robert Montgomery appeared in my permission of Metal Role
Speaker 2: than Mayor and Constant Manett.
Speaker 1: With permission of twenty ofth Mecripox.
Speaker 2: The songs line in Manhattan is from the Big Broadcast
Speaker 2: The Parallel Picture Parcity BG one of.
Speaker 1: The ductical Good News Next ers.
Speaker 3: At the same time, she is invited you to go
Speaker 3: back through the years again and to meet their guest stars,
Speaker 3: Admiral Richard E. Burd, Helen Sweetman of the Metropolitan Opera
Speaker 3: and the Abby Children Patient Richard and John, authors of
Speaker 3: the best selling around the World in eleven years