The DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware presents The Cavalcade of Music. ["The Cavalcade of Music"] Twenty years ago, few people dreamed that someday the movies would talk and sing, that music would be specially written for the film, and that Hollywood would have a tin pan alley all its own. But it happened, and one of the composers who has climbed to the top via the movies is a young man named Nacio Herb Brown. Born in Los Angeles, Brown simply moved a few blocks and went to work in Hollywood Studios, writing tunes that quickly caught the national fancy and established him as a top-flight composer of light music. In fact, Brown has written only for the pictures, an unusual record in itself. Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra are ready to play a full program of music by the young University of Southern California graduate with the unusual first name. Incidentally, we asked him about that name, Nacio Herb Brown, and found he was the first child born of an old Spanish-American family, and that Nacio means firstborn. As a special feature of our DuPont Cavalcade program this evening, a little later on, we're going to hear from Dr. Frank C. Whitmore, incoming president of the American Chemical Society, speaking from Rochester, New York. Here's a Nacio Herb Brown tune everybody remembers, from the picture Hollywood Review of 1929, the cheery, singing in the rain. ["The Pagan Song"] When Raymond Navarro starred in the talking picture, The Pagan, audiences left the theater humming a song that soon became one of the country's top tunes. Nacio Herb Brown's Pagan Love Song, Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra play it. ["The Pagan Song"] ["The Pagan Song"] ["The Pagan Song"] ["The Pagan Song"] ["The Pagan Song"] ["The Pagan Song"] ["The Pagan Song"] Eight years ago, Nacio Herb Brown had established himself as a star composer for the musical movie. One hit after another came from his pen, and one of the most popular was this one, The Moon is Low, from the picture Montana Moon. ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] ["The Moon is Low"] One of the finest actresses on stage or screen once sang a Nacio Herb Brown number into almost immediate popularity. The actress turned singer was Paula Negri. The song was Paradise from the picture of six years ago, A Woman Command. Here it is, a special Don Voorhees setting of the Waltz, Paradise. ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] ["Parisian March"] In addition to his skill at writing interesting melody, Nacio Herb Brown knows how to make music tell a story too. Here's an example of tunes from the Broadway melody of 1930, The Wedding of the Painted Doll, played by Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra. ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] The high spot of a picture called Student Tour, which came out three years ago, was a gay jingly tune that was easily the hit of the show. It's one of Nacio Herb Brown's own favorites. And if he's listening in out in Hollywood, we hope you'll enjoy hearing Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra in a special setting of A New Moon Over My Shoulders. ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] Ask a group of musicians to name the best number Nacio Herb Brown has written. The chances are good that the majority vote will be for Temptation. Sing Crosby sang it in the picture going Hollywood. And ever since then it has been a real favorite, Temptation. ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] Now for a preview. Next week the musical picture Broadway Melody of 1938 will be released nationally. It's both one of Nacio Herb Brown's best scores. Now we'll hear three of its top tunes. Your Broadway and Mine, Yours and Mine, and Feelin' Like a Million, played by Don Borez and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra. ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] ["The Wedding of the Painted Doll"] Nacio Herb Brown was among the first to win renown in popular music circles without even setting foot on Broadway's famed Tin Pan Alley. For his contributions to the music of the movies, which is much of the music we sing and dance to these days, we're pleased to salute Nacio Herb Brown in our DuPont cavalcade of music. Now for our trip to Rochester, New York, which we mentioned earlier. In that city, 3,000 members of the American Chemical Society are attending the 94th National Meeting and at this moment are holding their banquet in the dining hall of the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company. We're going to hear from Dr. Harrison E. Howe, outstanding writer and editor of chemical subjects, and Dr. Frank C. Whitmore, dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics at the Pennsylvania State College and president-elect of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Howe will ask Dean Whitmore a few questions about the activities of the American Chemical Society and their importance to the world at large. We turn now to Rochester, New York, and Dean Whitmore. Good evening. I'm happy to appear on DuPont's cavalcade program as spokesman for my fellow chemists. I find that I am to be interviewed by my friend Harrison Howe, and I guess we're ready, aren't we, Harrison? I guess we are, Dean Whitmore. And why don't you begin by telling the cavalcade audience the purpose of these national meetings of the American Chemical Society? Well, there are many reasons for the meetings, of course, but the principal ones are these. To hear reports on original research projects of the past year and to review the most recent achievements of chemistry. By exchanging information, we make progress easier, and when we achieve progress, we feel that chemistry is doing its part towards serving public welfare. I see. Now, Dean Whitmore, how does such progress directly affect my friends and my family? In many ways, every day, for example, chemistry gives us better food, better clothing, and better shelter. Chemistry provides improved refrigerants to preserve our foodstuffs, garments produced from man-made fibers, new materials for our homes, the automobile from its tires to its finishes, the photographic industry, including the movies. All these necessities, as well as many luxuries, were created or vastly improved by chemists. Yes, chemistry certainly has contributed to our comfort and well-being. Now, Dean Whitmore, won't you tell us about some of the new things right out of the chemical laboratories, which soon may play an important part in our lives? Yes, there are plenty of them, too. The health-giving vitamins are all pretty much under control now. Vitamin A has been separated from cod liver oil so that it no longer tastes fishy. Vitamin B within the year has become a product of the chemical factory instead of being laboriously extracted from rice husks. Vitamin C has been made synthetically, and a new method of putting vitamin D into milk increases its effectiveness tenfold. And what about the rest of our food supply? Several important developments are underway. Plant hormones, those complex chemicals which control the growth of plants, have lately been discovered. They so stimulate plants that we may soon be able to produce fruit or grain almost as plant-ifully as we wish. The ravages of insects such as moths, grasshoppers, scale beetles that devour much of our food may very well be prevented in the future by new insecticides harmless to humans and animals. Agriculture may become more productive, and humanity may get a more generous share of the products of the soil when some of these recent chemical discoveries are put to work. Dean Whitmore, do you think we have reached anywhere near the limit of discovery in chemistry? Well, Dr. Howe, prophecy is hazardous at best, and when speaking of research, it is doubly so. It can be said, however, that although the chemical industry now produces about 10,000 different substances for sale, we have definite knowledge concerning an additional half million substances for which there is no present use. Furthermore, the number of chemical substances obtainable from only two of the elements, carbon and hydrogen, may someday reach the astonishing total of millions of millions. With such unexplored prospects before us, prophecy fails us completely. Research by chemists into these things will change our habits in the future as it has in the past. Just what form these changes in our habits will take, no one can guess. However, we can be sure that chemists will create new uses for products of farm, forest, and mine, and new employment and opportunity for generations of Americans to come. I have an abiding faith that our children and their children will find life better because chemists are working and searching today. Thank you very much, Dr. Whitmore. We're back in New York, ladies and gentlemen, and you're invited to tune in again next Wednesday evening for a full program of music by Cole Porter. You'll recognize his work, for instance... ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] That's Night and Day by Cole Porter, one of the Porter tunes you'll hear next Wednesday. And here's news. We had so many nice letters about radio's ace baritone, Conrad Tebow, when he appeared on this series earlier in the summer that we've asked him to return. So tune in next Wednesday, same time and station, for Conrad Tebow with Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra, and the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware will again present the Cavalcade of Music. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
