presenting either the pinot in star in the west on the cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company maker of better things for better living through chemistry first here is game with me decorators and homemakers tell us that soft-toned pastel walls of the book these days because they're practical as well as beautiful walls that are dark and gingerly track the appearance of a room and they've solved the light as well you can have a smart modern home by using DuPont speed easy wall finish speed easy is a resin oil emulsion paint to thin with water it is easy to apply to almost any interior wall surface and it dries in less than one hour to a beautiful rich oil type finish furthermore it costs less than three dollars to redecorate the average room in one color speed easy is one of DuPont's better things for better living through chemistry just 100 years ago this past week Texas joined the Union tonight for this centennial anniversary we present a story not so much historical as human a story of the kind of devotion and labor and love which wrought the miracles of the American frontier DuPont Company presents star in the West with Ida Lupino as Nancy Dale on the cavalcade of America Mr. Dale Mr. Dale this is our dance I believe Nancy I was wondering if you've forgotten your father not at all and he's quite the handsomest gentleman here oh thank you my dear I appreciate compliment but I'm afraid my years aren't adequate to a dad that's nonsense come along no my dear I'm sure they're younger men who are both lighter with their step and compliment are you refusing me oh not exactly Nancy but there's Jeff Raleigh who has had three walls is already well there's Kent Winslow keeps time by counting along 11 who confuses the ball and the fox and it shows up in a dancing he can't then who shall it be that man with red hair talking to him is it a good man to Pennsylvania I want to meet Nancy is that lady like you know it's woman like what did I send you to school abroad for six years to have you come home on me besides it's only a bit that's all the more reason we should make him feel well this is probably talking to death and all right all right come along and say I think you're pardoned this is problem and you start certainly sir I missed a day of the problem you know did I of course you did father I want to run along I'm sure the next dance will be a wall and you left wall father remember but I. Missed from. Thank you now man you take good care of me so I'm not he's very charming even if he does come from the from the Pennsylvania. I know it was some foreign play and now Mr. Dale shall we show these young people what great. Do you dance Mr. Hall after a fashion is Nancy. Why Mr Hall of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . be filled with bombs and ranches and cattle and how do you fit in that picture I told you I'm a schoolteacher they'll be needing schools in Texas you see civilization stops where education does you know Mr Hallmark I think you're quite wonderful I miss Nancy I'm embarrassed you didn't well it was sudden I'm sorry what I meant was all my life I've had this big house servants anything I want and the people I've met been just like comfortable self-satisfied living in a rich developed land I went to school abroad for six years and there I learned to be a lady and the result is quite wonderful is it I'm not sure about that Mr Hallmark sometimes I think my forefathers rather disapprove of gay dancers and hunts and you and I that's why I said you're quite wonderful Mr Hallmark you're willing to give up a life in a land that's already developed a one in a wild new Texas this man's here it's not being wonderful it's just just having faith and I like that even better Oh really mr. Hallmark your flattery sounds like a Virginian it's meant as such miss Nancy look at all this Nancy these hills that scream houses beautiful and white against the green someday Texas will be like this you're you're anxious to go aren't you right I will be leaving in a few days what are you thinking about Paul Nancy you said the other day that you'll be sorry to see me leave yes I will why don't you know yeah I think I do but I can't ask you to go out there with me then I'll ask you to take me oh ah what oh I'm sorry father are you enjoying the nap so much yes I was and you can go right back to sleep after Paul talks oh how do you do mr. Hallmark that knows today Nancy what you've got to talk about Paul wants to talk with your father so I'll be out in the garden well mr. Hallmark what is I hear it's no good beating around the bush I I want to marry Nancy so I guess you've been visiting get quite a bit happened you met Nancy's invitation so I'm a Nancy's only 19 I doubt she really knows her own mind I think she does say you've known her three months while I've known her only 19 years of course you know a far better than I do mr. Dale I I don't think there's any need for sarcasm we can discuss this like two gentlemen I very well you asked me for Nancy's hand well what are your prospects I think you know sorry I intend to go to Texas and then subject my daughter to a wild ruffin Lake country you forget mr. Dale that this was a wild ruffin Lee country when your forefathers brought their wives that's beside the point it is the point what are we to do let a great new country lie in ways because people are afraid of it where would any of this have been sir the first day or the first Raleigh or Winthrop had stopped I won't hear any more sir my answer is no I can't take that answer without argument mr. Dale I have a right to present my case you have no right in this house mr. Dale I refuse to be talked about you too quarreling my drunken stable boy Nancy I'm your father I haven't forgotten nor have I forgotten that I love you know it's a silly delusion you don't know your own mind I'm not a child it's not reducing able to agree and you're unable to talk it up like gentlemen I'll decide both of you Paul I'll go with you as your wife very well Nancy honor you heard her there's no more to be said oh forget that silly pride for a moment one of us must remember it I I'm sorry I lost my temper mr. Dane it's quite all right sir Nancy you may take me rebel and get me out of the new carriage and four of the horses also what household good you prefer I don't want any of those things father please all I want is for you to understand that I love Paul I can't be changed then shall we say that I do understand and that I want you to have those things there's nothing more to be said but there is not on my part good day Mr. Hama and. Nancy darling maybe you should think it over for a while I have thought about it Paul ever since we met I love Virginia my home my father but I've always felt that there's more to this country than just one just these small things one can reach out and touch I didn't know what it was until you told me about Texas and your faith your belief then I knew what we knew well I knew there was something bigger Paul much bigger and it's rising out of the way a new country in which we put ourselves our children and which we can put the same energy in a place that went into the making of the. New star I think all. The star in the way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a. What did you do. When we leave New Orleans we'll be getting a country with no wrong no that's what I'm going to tell it to the news. You trick and the other things the curtains the silverware you took along with things traded credit things are really. I wanted to keep those things for you Nancy I wanted to make some kind of a home a little like the one you had I know you did. But it would have looked a little silly fine silver and silk draperies in the log cabin no Paul we can do without now we have the things we really need and can you Nancy now help me pack you see we've got to leave soon because our first boy has to be born in Texas. We should be almost there Jim yes Mr Paul should almost be there seemed like we don't come across the whole country and there about. How is this man or she's five or four you know we got to stop and I know but we're not quite there and this man didn't told me to tell you that you ain't supposed to stop to with their people don't make it. I don't know Jeff I don't know go as far as we can and stop when this man sees it yes. What's your calling I don't know Jeff what name sounds good. You do a got nothing to say about it this man didn't got a name for it. What is it Murbel she got called in Texas. What we're going to do with a girl. That really about to miss Nancy to. That Mr Paul I don't know Jim Oh oh they. Think of these guys. At all who are you my name is Paul Hall my name is Joe Jack Joe how do you do well and I don't you know no better than to be going along with night over this year's big game brought out it all right look here where you had Texas for Texas yes Mr Hall did you cross a creek a while back about ten miles yes there mister you crossed over into God's own country armor welcome to Texas we hear you sure. Holy Brown what's that. A lot gentlemen I have got any stogies to pass out but I just became a father. You are listening to idol the Pino is Nancy Dale with Bill Johnston as Paul in Star in the West on the cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company maker of better things for better living through chemistry. The second part of our story opens seven years after Nancy and her husband Paul first came to Texas. Party is in progress on the bar. I'm glad you could I wouldn't miss it for anything my when I look around this barn and see what you and Paul. Know what everyone did you want to act in brought. We all built. Just as we're all going to. In our time. With all the trouble in work. Seven years. And Paul coming now. Why yes it is. Something wrong. Paul Paul. Got to stop this party right now. Folks just a minute. I hate to be busting up a party in my own place. I got some news that can't wait. I've been south all day in a surveying trip and I got news that a Mexican army on the Santa Ana wiped out the Texas garrison the goalie at the Alamo. That Mexican army is coming on. And you. Sam you can give an order. All families women and children have to move north and east all able bodied men must make their way to San Jacinto to join San you can take the army that's all. A. It is down you've got to go and do. You want me to leave all. All these years I think you have to go out. Building again to raise our children and say we're still going to fight for it but you can't stay here and I'll go with you know that's impossible to go with the other with the best of the other one of all it's settled. Again. You go with Miss Nancy in Texas there about to occupy the report I know Jim and then some of oil need. Right away. I.rohyunged. Have on. Our Dodgers are that you yes and an option to clean and so itっちゃman is I'm going a fight Santa Ana and everybody else and get out. Maybe we should have gone. What we're going to do to say. I don't know. Up the right. Oh. What was that. If you're going to get back to know. Right outside maybe right like they don't think that you have to get. That you can't shoot no gun you can't. Legend come along a lot of the right good talking him I got shall pay for. A denial. I think the setup for that or come back. Or my fully a. Fool you stay I couldn't leave all I think that. But you're all right yes Nancy we like to make any sense of Captain Santa Ana. But I'm telling you Paul it ain't right we come into this country and make some love it as soon as it's. Some crackpot is all for getting into the you look at it this way Jim if we go into the union we'll be better able to build schools we'll have a whole government behind we've got a government now but this is a team forty five Jim and then see and I have been in Texas sixteen years surely we have as much right to be called Texans as anyone and we don't think Nancy I can't argue with fancy talk like you tell them that it ain't right Jim I'm just as proud of Texas as you are I felt the same thing you did alone so I went up to see Paul no Jim that's not an argument against joining the union it's an argument for. The party that will be the East China state and we're built by men like you and Paul and Jack Jones are the same kind of men who died in the Alamo but what they thought was right. I thought something else Jim they thought. That was. And we love liberty and freedom democracy. Would and should always band together with. You can. Sure I see that and we have the same decision to make Jim decision to stand with the separate smaller democracy or join the greater and help build a new nation. With Texas Jim where Americans to. Their about the F.N.P. It's all of the home late the food want yes no oh and then you come in now why no no it's not. Hello there. Jack what's the matter with you well I just got the election. Both went the other way we're not going to. We went in all right. That's wonderful you know about. Our kids that are safe in the union or Jack Paul will be so happy or maybe he knows all right. Yes. But. Nancy was riding along with the back of the election. Bringing back. The good role was riding over the bridge at Baker Street it's been all right if you get broke the water but. Maybe. I'm not not. Upena yeah. God no high but. There was. both Customs. The head yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah that. He's dead. He's dead, Nantel. You can go back to Virginia. Your father would be awful glad to have you back. Go back to Virginia? No, Mirabel. No, we'll stay here. We'll stay here, Mirabel. We'll stay because that's what he was worth. Yes. Nine years ago we stayed when we thought the next phenomenon was coming. We stayed from droughts and floods and crops to failure. We stayed and fought against the earth until we won. We built our Mirabel. We built a school that Paul dreamed of and never saw. Never saw because first he had to turn his hand to a greater job. That of building a land to receive his food. We won't be alone. Because men and women will come to this land with vision before them and faith in their hearts. Because we will. Yes, we'll stay. Because the star in the west is Riven Hall. Adelapino will return to our cavalcade microphone in a moment. Now here is Gaines Whitman. When we hear the word company, the DuPont Company for instance, we think of a certain number of men and women at a certain place making products. In the case of the DuPont Company, chemical products. But it is also possible to think of a company in another way, as a library or reservoir of knowledge and experience. During the war, this was made very clear. Again and again, when there was a need for a special gun or electronic tube, or a means of combating tropical disease, the job was given to a company whose experience was most likely to provide the answer. Take the struggle to conquer malaria, which every year attacks up to 300 million people throughout the world. During the war, it was impossible to fight the disease. During the war, it was impossible to get quinine from the Dutch East Indies. So the government sponsored the program to find something as good as quinine or better. As part of the program, the DuPont Company supplied Dr. E.K. Marshall of the Johns Hopkins Medical School with over 2200 compounds. Many of them put together by our chemists just for the purpose. Other companies and government chemists provided samples for a total of 14,000. As a result, Johns Hopkins and other laboratories were unable to study hundreds of compounds that had never been tested before for their anti-malarial value. And shortly after New Year's Day, Washington announced the discovery of SN7618, superior to quinine and atyprin. The new compound relieves malaria with a shorter treatment and need not be given so often. Another case was that of Dr. Kurt T. Richter, who turned to DuPont when he was investigating the action of various chemicals on rat behavior. Our DuPont laboratories were able to supply him with a number of compounds for trial. One of these, Antu alpha-napsyl thiourea, turned out to be an effective rat poison. Antu, to quote Dr. Richter, has been proved to extensive laboratory tests and also by controlled field trials in a large city to be an effective and specific poison for the Norway rat, a very common and destructive rat throughout the world. The Norway rat is the ordinary gray rat which spreads cypress fever. Compounds to fight malaria, compounds to kill disease-carrying rats, are as important in time of peace as they are in time of war. And the knowledge and experience of companies in private industry are as valuable in peacetime as in war. For they are the real source of products. The products which, in our case, are DuPont, better things for better living through chemistry. Once again, our star, Ida Mccaino. Well, Mr. Mccaino, I suppose you know the eyes of Texas were upon you tonight. Jane, I enjoyed being a part of tonight's cattle cage. It was a tribute to the men and women who made Texas not only the biggest state in the Union, but one of the finest. And I'm sure the Texas field as we do, Mr. Mccaino. You gave not only a splendid performance as Miss Nancy, but also a gracious tribute. great work of Dr. Mccaino and Dr. Richter. I am very pleased to receive you, Mr. Mccaino. You gave not only a splendid performance as Miss Nancy, but also a gracious tribute. And I'm certain that your acting in the forthcoming Warner Brothers picture, Devotion, will give more cause for cheer, not only in Texas, but all over the country. Thanks for being with us. Thank you, Jane. Good night. Listen in next week when the cavalcade of America will star Brian Dunleavy in a thrilling story about an incident which gave American industry its lifeblood. It's called The Case of the Tremendous Tribal. Music for tonight's DuPont cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster. The cavalcade play was written by Bernard Grains. In tonight's cast with Mr. Pino were William Johnstone as Paul, Francis X Bushman as Dale, Lillian Randolph as Mirabelle, Earl Smith as Jeb, and Ed Max, Margaret Brayton, Ruth Parrott, and Franklin Parker. Mrs. Tom Collins inviting you to listen next week to Brian Dunleavy in The Case of the Tremendous Tribal and the Cabalcade of America brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
