The DuPont Cavalcade of America, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald. Good evening. This is Geraldine Fitzgerald. Tonight's cavalcade is the story of a shocking young lady named Ellen Swallow, who dared become a scientist during the 1870s when no nice girl dreamed of venturing outside the sewing circle. But before our story begins, here is Bill Hamilton of the DuPont Company. Thank you, Miss Fitzgerald. Each year about this time, many of us begin thinking about painting our houses. For the shutters and trim, it will be to your advantage to specify DuPont, Dulux, trim, and trellis finishes. They hold their color and gloss. They are quick drying and are resistant to fading. Dulux trim and trellis finishes come in light, dark, and jade green, Quaker brown, and black. Modern trim colors that are another of DuPont's better things for better living through chemistry. And now, Paging Miss Ellen, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald as Ellen Swallow in an original radio play on the DuPont cavalcade of America. Sir, you there. What are you all about? Why, where is Professor Richards? Good morning, Dr. Andrews. Why are you whispering? Why are you standing there, peering into the laboratory window? Stop shushing me. What's going on here anyway? I've heard this to be a very interesting experiment conducted in the chemistry class this morning. It may even be dangerous. Quite so, quite so. May I ask just what you've heard? May I ask just what you've heard? That the experiment is to be most unusual, in fact, utterly fantastic. Observed anything? Not yet, sir. Good. Then it hasn't begun. Move over. In 1871, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a young school, but its men were already gaining a reputation for their scientific pioneering, their fearless experiments. Well, not the least fearless of these took place one winter morning in the chemistry laboratory. It was the day a woman walked into the class for the first time. And you will observe that as birth of a main pain, chemistry presented this active faculty to a more eminent degree than... Well, miss, what is it? Professor Ordway? Yes, yes, what do you want? There's a class going on. I'm Ellen Swallow. I'd like to enroll in this course, sir. Quiet, gentlemen, please. Ellen Swallow, eh? Yes, sir. President Runkel did mention some nonsense about a woman wishing to study at MIT, but I hardly dared hope she would honor the chemistry department. I hope to major in chemistry, sir, with your permission. This is advanced, young lady, and the term has already begun. We have no time for tea parties. I didn't earn my degree at Vassar by attending tea parties, professor. I'm prepared for advanced work. I dare say that point remains to be proved. Oh, please let me prove it, sir. Hmm, I'll have to discuss the matter with Dr. Runkel. Meanwhile, take a table over near the wall for the day. I'm sure Mr. Sims, they will be delighted to make room for you. Won't you, Sims? Yes, sir. Oh, thank you ever so much, professor. However, Miss Swallow, you'll receive no special privileges because of your text. I expect none. All right, let's return to the discussion. See, I was there. Is this the table he meant? Yes, miss. Here, let me move these things over. Oh, dear. And now what? I only dropped some test tubes, sir. It was all my fault. Well, pick them up. What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a female student before? Yes, sir. No, sir, I'm not a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. Oh, Mr. Sims, you're a female student. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. No, sir. Here, here, I'll help you. Oh, no, Mr. Sims, don't pick up glass with your bare hands. You'll cut yourself. It looks like I already have. Oh, my goodness. Well, the class is waiting. Have you two quite finished with your little chat? He's cut his hand rather badly, sir. Perhaps, perhaps I'd better get something to bandage it with. May I offer my courtesy, Miss? Careful of your dress. Here's some water. Are you all right, miss? Gentlemen. Yes, yes, yes. If this is a chemistry class, I'm not a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. 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I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I'm a female student. I beg your pardon. Yes? Is there something I can do for you? I was looking for the chemistry laboratory. I want to enroll in the course. That's why I came to MIT. Come in, my dear. You're in the right place. Take off your bonnet. I'll give you an apron and a table of your own to work on. We'll get started right away. Thank you. Thank you very much. Aren't there any other students? Not yet. You're my very first. Don't you worry. Women are going to be recognized someday as scientists. Both in the laboratory and in the home. Pretty soon there will be so many students here, we won't know where to put them. And now, young lady, let's get to work. Geraldine Fitzgerald will return in a few moments. But first, here's Bill Hamilton of the DuPont Company. Whenever you hear the word nylon, you no doubt think of nylon stockings, or perhaps the nylon bristles of your toothbrush. It's hard to realize, hearing it practically every day, that a little more than ten years ago, the word nylon didn't even exist. In just the last decade, this product of DuPont Chemical Research, this remarkable development which has brought more beauty, strength, and longer life to so many fabrics and materials, has helped bring about better living for all of us. Tonight, I'd like to tell you about another form of nylon, DuPont Nylon Plastic. DuPont produces this extremely versatile and sturdy plastic in the form of molding powder. This is sold to manufacturers who use it to make new and improved articles for home and industry. Among the things you can buy for yourself, your family, and your home, now made of the exciting new DuPont Nylon Plastic, are bathroom tumblers, light in weight and virtually unbreakable, funnels for filling baby bottles that can be safely sterilized in boiling water, slide fasteners that remain sturdy and give service with a minimum of care, and combs that are tough and can be sterilized. DuPont Nylon Plastic also serves you in many unseen ways, for example, as small functional parts in motors and instruments, such as gears, bearings, and coil forms. Nylon's toughness has wanted a place as a protective covering for electrical wiring, and its use in long-wearing self-locking nuts has made an important contribution to safety. In these industrial applications, just as in products you buy for your home, the possibilities for this amazing nylon plastic are many. Like the nylon in stockings, DuPont Nylon Plastic has the virtue of being strong, yet light in weight. Its many advantages will undoubtedly bring nylon into a large number of new products, as well as improve many old products. Yes, you'll be hearing and using this name more and more. DuPont Nylon Plastic, one of the DuPont Company's better things for better living through chemistry. Now, here's Geraldine Fitzgerald. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to talk to you from the heart about the heart. One out of every three deaths in this country is caused by disease of the heart. Your help is needed to combat the nation's number one killer. So please, get in touch with the American Heart Association in New York City, or communicate with your local heart association to find out how you can join the cardiac crusade and fight heart disease. Thank you. Next week's Cavalcade will present two celebrated stars, Basil Rathbun and Thomas Mitchell. Our play is a little known and unusual story of George Washington during the first months of his administration as president. Be sure to listen to Cavalcade next week at the same time when our stars will be Basil Rathbun and Thomas Mitchell. Tonight's original DuPont Cavalcade, Paging Miss Ellen, was written by Virginia Radcliffe. Now featured in tonight's play with Geraldine Fitzgerald was Clayton Collier as Professor Richards. Music was composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Bryan. And this is Ted Pearson inviting you to listen next week to The President and the Doctor, starring Basil Rathbun and Thomas Mitchell. Cavalcade of America is presented each week from the stage of the Longacre Theatre on Broadway in New York and is brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Applause This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
