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And your summer driving will be far more pleasant because of these DuPont radiator products, examples of better things for better living through chemistry. The DuPont Company presents William Bendix in Meet Artie Greengroin on the cavalcade of America. My name is Artie Greengroin, Private First Class. I was dreamed up by an old rummy named Harry Brown. He told all about me in Yank, the Army Weekly, and pretty soon a million GIs were sticking their nose in my private affairs. Stick around, you old rummies. I'll be back later. This is the story of Private First Class Artie Greengroin. Artie never lived, but his roots went deep and the GIs in the European Theater of Operations understood him and approved. For those million who knew him, we bring back an old friend. And for those who didn't know him, we say, Meet Artie Greengroin, Private First Class. Hey, Greengroin. Oh, hiya Charlie, you rummy. Hiya, Greengroin. How's every little thing, huh? Terrible. What's the matter? Don't you like England? It's all right, I guess, for the English. They don't know any better. Me, I wish I was back in Brooklyn. Me too. Yeah, come on, Charlie, old boy. I got to stop in a supply sergeant. Hi. Hiya, sergeant, you old rummy. Well, well, well, Private First Class Greengroin, I presume. Yeah, sergeant, I got a pair of old-tone pants here. Uh-huh, and you're planning to turn them in for a new pair, right? Right. Nothing doing. What do you mean, nothing doing? Always you rummies are coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. You're always coming in. If you want to go get some beer, well, come on, do it. If you want to go on my desk, get up off of my chair. If you want to pass, forget it. Tonight everybody's got to stay in. Small crunk, small crunk. Oh, oh, a doll, huh? Well, of course, now that's different. Never let it be said that I stood in the way of true love. Eh, what's she like, green grain, old man? Sarge, old man? Sarge, she is divine. What eyes. And she comes in and goes out in all the most interesting places. You don't say. Don't say. Hey, I tell you what, green grain, old man. I got me orders not to wish you no passes tonight because everybody's got to polish their buttons. But, eh, that can be got around. Tell me how, Sarge, and I will be your slave. Well, let's see now. If you wish to polish your buttons now... I get it, Sarge, I get it. They didn't have it done, and I could give you the pass for tonight. Sargeant, from this moment onward, I am your... but, eh, what about my phone call? I'll take care of it for you. I'll find out the time and the place. Now, eh, run along like a little man. Sargeant, I have never understood you until now. Oh, green grain, old man, it's nothing. Go on now and polish your buttons. If an enemy bullet was to cut you up in me career, this is what I would have carved on me tombstones. He was proud to be a non-com under Sargeant Gloom. Let's go, Charlie. Day, dee-day, day, day, day, day. Sargeant Gloom speaking. Who? Eh, private first class green grain ain't here. And, eh, who is this speaking brave? Oh, Miss Fortescue, huh? Well, eh, yeah, yeah, he left a message. Eh, wait a minute, I'll read it to you. Eh, eh, eh, eh, dear Miss Fortescue. The wonderful man you are now speaking to is my best friend, Sargeant Harold Gloom. Since I am unfortunately detained in the guard house, why do not you and him get together at some quiet little place? Yeah, yeah, that's what it says. Eh, Tatey? Eh, eh, would you kindly repeat that address? Thank you. I will be there. Come in. Private first class green grain reporting, Captain. Very interesting. What are you reporting for? I'm reporting that I can't locate Sargeant Gloom, sir. Sargeant's off duty tonight. Went up to London. Well, didn't he leave me no pass? Well, what about my message from Gwendolyn? I don't see anything. You can look on his desk if you like. Ah, much obliged, Captain. Hey, what's this? I mean, sir. What's what, Green Grain? What's Gwendolyn's address doing here? What's my girl's address doing on this roomie's desk? Well, now I... Captain, you can throw me in a break. You can give me K.P. for the duration. But I gotta get to London tonight. I gotta save me fiancé from a price-wasted debt. Is she really your fiancée, Green Grain? Not only that, but we're engaged. Very well, Green Grain. I'll give you a pass. Thank you. Why, Mr. Green Grain? It's me, Miss Fortescue. Artie Green Grain, PFC, and just in a nick of time, I'll bet. Oh, but I thought you were detained. I thought... Oh, come in, won't you? Yeah, thanks. Are you all right? I'm very well, thank you. I've got a surprise for you. Your best friend is here. Hiya, Green Grain. He ain't my best friend, and it ain't no surprise. I was just telling Gwenny here how you had to stay in tonight to polish your buttons. I was also telling her how a private first class can be put in the brig for life, for going AWOL. Why don't you ask to see my pass, you brig elephant? I wouldn't think of it, not when I'm off duty like this. You, uh, got one, I hope? I, uh, got one. Oh. Mr. Glump has just been telling me about his medals. No, no, Gwenny, oh, go ahead. Oh, his medals, huh? Well, that's very interesting. Pray continue, Sergeant, dear. It's getting kind of late. Maybe I... Come on, Sarge, don't be so modest. Tell me and I'll tell all the other Joes at the base. Come on. I guess I'd better be going. Oh, you know, Mr. Glump was at Pearl Harbor when the Japs came over. He told me all about it. He broke down seven jet planes. You don't say. Nice going, Glumpy old boy. I must remember to tell that one to the boys. I forgot just how he got the, uh, the congressional medal of honor and the Navy Cross. Mr. Glump got that, too, when he led a platoon of Marines at Waddell Canal. When was you there last, Sarge? Before the war? The last I heard on a day at Pearl Harbor, you was delivering milk in Jersey City. Oh, you mean he's been pulling my leg, but he didn't win any of those medals? If he won them, I'll eat them, dehydrated. Now, Miss Fortescue, I can explain... Please, don't bother, Mr. Glump. I'll thank you to leave this house at once. Bye-bye, Glumpy old boy. Green Crane, I'll see you back at the base. Good night, Miss Fortescue. One moment, Mr. Glump. You will kindly salute your superior officer. And? Now, now, Gwenny, old girl, that ain't necessary. I insist, Mr. Glump. You're a sergeant after all. That's right. And Mr. Green-Drawn is a private first-class... Now, Gwenny, you dirty... He is? So what? Then salute him. He's your superior officer, isn't he? This why my superior officer? Ha ha ha ha! Did he tell you that? Sergeant, on second thought, maybe I and you ought to leave this house. Wait, I'm going to leak all my arms. Miss Fortescue, did this no-good mummy tell you that he is my... he is my... did he? Why, yes. He told me that in the American army a private first-class is right under a brigadier general. Ah! Didn't you, Mr. Green-Drawn? Well, maybe I was exaggerating a little. You too? Oh, my goodness. Isn't there anybody in the American army a girl can trust? But, Gwenny, you get... that is Miss Fortescue. I can explain everything. Oh, you private first-class Green-Drawn. Okay, okay. I'm going. I know how to take a hint. Ah! Charlie, old pal, you're looking at a man with one foot in a guardhouse. What you going to do, Auntie? I'm going to get even with Sergeant Glubb. Yeah? On account of him, I ain't got no more fiancé. Revenge, that's what me soul cries out for. You mean Gwendolyn? I mean Gwendolyn. She... give me the bum's rush, Charlie. Oh, what you going to do, Artie? Well, I've done a little detective work, see? I found out that every night from 10.30 to 11, Top Sergeant Glubb is in the orderly room doing some work. And during that time, the secret files is left open. Artie! Artie, you ain't going to sell our plans to the enemy. What enemy? I've been in the army two years. I never even seen an enemy. Now, at 11 o'clock every night, the captain goes into the orderly room to check up. Yeah? 10.30 to 11. That's the witching hour. That's what I'm going to do me dirty deed. Tonight, Green Droid rides again. Music As our second act opens, Sergeant Glubb is alone in the orderly room. It is 10.45 at night. The company street is dark and deserted. The setting is perfect for our hero Artie Green Groin's insidious plot. Suddenly, a wild yelling disturbs the stillness. Yo ho! Sergeant Glubb! Sergeant Glubb is a jerk! Sergeant Glubb is an anti-macather! Sergeant Glubb would have been a wet platform! Who's out there, you? Come on out and see, you rummy, I challenge you! Why, you dirty old, I'm coming, and you better not be there when I get there! Where are you, you rummy? There he goes, running around in the dark. Now I just sneak in. Ah, here we are. Got to work quick now. Where's them files? Ah, here. Hmm, confidential. No good. Secret. No good. Ah, here we are. Top secret. That's their stuff. All over the floor, all over the table. Shut some outside the door. That's fine. I'll fix him. Wait a minute. Where's all the paper? Paper, yeah. Oh, here it is. Now, what'll I write? I know. Colonel O'Croc is a stinker. First class. Signed Sergeant Glubb. I'll fix him, the rummy. Oh, somebody's coming. I gotta beat it. Now, here I go. Out through the window. This way, Colonel. My word, Captain. Is this how you keep your secret orders all over the floor? Well, I usually keep them in a file, sir. They're not in a file now, Captain. Come to think of it, they're not, sir. I wonder who... Hey, what's this? Where's that Sergeant? What's that piece of paper you're trying to hide, Captain? What piece of paper, sir? Captain Dingle, give me that paper. Yes, sir. Hmm. Colonel O'Croc is a stinker. First class. What? Where's that First Sergeant? Here I am, sir. Place yourself under arrest, Sergeant Glubb. But Colonel, sir, I didn't... Solitary confinement. But Colonel, sir... Loss of range. Oh, no! From this moment on, Sergeant Glubb, you are one strike below a private first class. Oh, no! Not that! Not that! Oh, no! But Sergeant Glubb, I don't understand. Now listen, Sidney. You owe me 206 bucks from that crap game, don't you? Yeah. Cancel it. I'll call it even. All I want is you should get Green Grain up in an airplane. But why? Because he gets seasick in airplanes, that's why. And when you're seasick, you're miserable. And Mr. Green Grain's misery is all I'm living for. Shh. Here he comes. Get away from my window so we don't know you're talking. Hey, Green Grain. Green Grain! Well, if it ain't my old aviator pal, Sidney. Tell me, how was the Air Corps? Oh, not that. Not that. I got me another cluster. Yeah, yeah. That's it. The Air Corps gets all the medals and we does all the fighting. Well, maybe you're right, Artie. We do have it kind of easy in MB-17. You can say that again. Yeah. How'd you like to come up with it sometime, Artie? Any old time? Any old time at all? That's fine. Let's go. You mean now? Yeah, yeah. Our tail gunner's sick. I'll fix it up with the captain. But do I go? Meet me at the airfield in 15 minutes. Hmm. Well, I guess I let myself in for something. Oh, well, gotta make the best of it. You're a Green Grain, Green Grain. Always remember that. Where's that Sidney? Oh, there he is behind that plane. Hmm. That must be his pilot he's talking to. I'd better wait here till he's through. His name is Green Grain, Captain, and he's the number one screwball in the entire Army. Why do you want to take him up? Well, it's a gag, Captain. I want to scare the pants off him till he blights your friend. What friend? His name is Sergeant Glump. Well, I've wrought a low down, dirty, double dealin'. It's just a routine flight, ain't it, Captain? We won't run into any. Oh, no, not a chance. Hasn't been an enemy plane we're going in six weeks. You know, it's against regulations, Sidney. Yes, I know that, sir. But this Green Grain doesn't think much of the Air Corps, Captain. Oh, he doesn't? No, sir. He says the Air Corps gets all the medals for doing absolutely nothing. Oh, he does, huh? Well, Sidney, my compliments to your friend, Mr. Green Grain. Ask him if he'd like to go for a little ride. Oh, gee, thanks, Captain. Believe me, this is gonna be one ride that Romeo'll never forget. It is, huh? That's what you think, Sidney, old boy. That's what you think. So... this is what you Air Corps heroes does, huh? My, my. Sidney, my man, just wake me up when something important happens. Until then, I do not wish to be disturbed. That dirty double-crosser. I'll show him. Scared the pants off me, will they? Coming in at ten o'clock. Two Messerschmitts. Green Grain! Yes, Sidney, dear. Did you hear the Captain? Two Messerschmitts. Coming in at ten o'clock. Oh, is that so? Well, the Captain's watch must be slow. It is half past eleven. Four more. Four more at six o'clock. Four more at six o'clock. Green Grain, get that gun going. Green Grain, do you hear me? I hear you, Sidney. Not only that, but it happens I overhear you tell the Captain that you was going to try to scare the pants off of me. Yeah, but this is no gag. This is a real thing. Why, Sidney, all harsher, don't worry. You see, I'm a hundred percent nonchalant. That's what I am. Off we go into the wild blue yonder... Hey, uh, what's them big round holes in front of me? Just take a look out the window and find out. Okay, Sidney, anything to oblige, I don't want to... There's nothing out there but some planes with swastikas all over them. Nothing to get in... Swastikas! Hey, Sidney, what's that? What happened back there? It's Green Grain, Captain. He just fainted. Hey, Green Grain, you rummy. Wait a minute, you. Where do you think you're going? Oh, I got more of this, Sergeant Cump. Oh, yeah? What's the idea of them combat boots and the carbine? Well, I told you, I'm going over. The invasion, you know. Invasion? Yeah. Well, you rummy, this is D-Day plus one-oh-eight. Well, just the same. I'm crossing the channel into France, and where Green Grain goes, there's war. This would happen to me. Just when I get out of the guardhouse, they pours my revenge on you. Revenge? After I fixes you up with Gwendolyn? What, Gwendolyn? You been seeing him? Well, only last night I seen her. I told her I was off to battle. She broke down and cried, but I consoled her. I told her you was getting out of the clink and that she wasn't a bad joke. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You done that? Yeah. Honest? Yeah. And she wants you to come up to her apartment tonight. Oh. Yeah. Don't ring the bell. Just walk in like I always did. Oh, Green Grain. I had you so wrong. Hey, hey, hey, what time do I show up there? Oh, yeah, 10 o'clock. 10 and a dot. Well, so long, Rummy. I gotta keep a date with Lafayette. So long, Garty. I'll never forget what you've done for me. No. No, I guess you never will. So long, Clump. I wonder if I should have told him Gwendolyn married Colonel O'Croc this morning. Oh! Now, now, I guess I'll wait and phone him at the hospital. William Bendix will return to our cavalcade microphone in a moment. Now here is Gain Whitman. 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So many plastic developments from the chemical laboratories of the DuPont company illustrate the phenomenal growth of the plastics industry, which beginning with one material about 75 years ago, now offers designers, manufacturers, and builders dozens of materials from which to choose. It must be remembered, of course, that several of these DuPont plastics are so new that they can be purchased only in very small quantity for experimentation at the present time. Others, although they are out of the laboratory, will not be in production for many months. But all of them are exciting contributions to a better future. Interesting examples, new examples, of DuPont, better things for better living through chemistry. [♪Music playing.♪ Nice going, Gaine. And because it was such a good job, here's a ticket to my radio show, The Life of Riley, that I do every Saturday night for tea. Why, thank you, Bill. Yeah, and here's a ticket to the Paramount picture, the blue dagger, in which I am currently being seen. Thank you. Now then, have you got anything for me, like a ticket, maybe? No, but I've got a good tip, Bill. Listen to Cavalcade next week. Oh, but I always listen to Cavalcade, Gaine. Oh, wait, I haven't finished. Tune in Cavalcade and hear a fine story called Thirst Without End, an interesting story about that wonderful organization, Alcoholics Anonymous, starring James Cagney. Well, well, with Jimmy Cagney in it, I've just got to have a ticket. All I want is a ticket. Hey, great going, you rummy. Well, Sergeant Clump, I ain't seen you since we was in the Army together. What are you doing in that policeman's uniform? Since I am now a civilian, I am now a cop. And since you parked your crummy automobile in front of a fire hydrant, here is a ticket. Oh, no. Oh, yes, Bendix, you rummy. It's a losing fight. Good night, folks. Daylight saving time goes into effect in certain areas on April 28. This may change the time when Cavalcade is heard in your community. Please check your local newspaper for the time Cavalcade could be heard next week. Music for tonight's DuPont Cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster. Our play was written by Arthur Errant and was based on the book Artie Green-Draw and PFC by Harry Brown. In tonight's cast, John Brown played Sergeant Glump, Paula Winslow was Gwendolyn, and Sidney Miller was Charlie. Others included Jerry Hausner, Eddie Marr, Francis X. Bushman, William Johnstone, Howard McNair, and Peter Leeds. This is Tom Collins inviting you to listen next week to Thirst Without End, starring James Cagney on the Cavalcade of America, brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
