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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "200,000 Flyers"
- Description
- Written by Willard Wiener and stars Pat O’Brien. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of how the civilian flying schools helped to build the USAF into a tremendous weapon of World War II.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United States. Air Force
- Local Identifier
- program_no:447
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101735
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Case for the F.B.I"
- Description
- Written by Stuart Hawkins and stars Edward G. Robinson. Features Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The story of an attempted extortion and a threatened murder, as taken from the F.B.I. files.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:322
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101736
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Child is Born"
- Description
- Written by Stephen Vincent Benet and co-stars Helen Hayes and Phillip Merrivale. Special introduction by William Rose Benet. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Carl Frank, announcers. Repeated request, this is the story of an innkeeper and his wife who give lodging in a barn to Joseph and Mary at the time of Christ's birth.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Christmas story
- Local Identifier
- program_no:362
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101738
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Child is Born"
- Description
- Written by Cavalcade Stephen Vincent Benet. Stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Music by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Voorhees. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Bud Collyer, announcer. The traditional Christmas story as told from the view of the innkeeper of Bethlehem, who offers Joseph and Mary the stable.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Christmas story
- Local Identifier
- program_no:310
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101737
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Continental Uniform"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Basil Rathbone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, John Hiestand, announcers. The tragic story of Benedict Arnold.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801
- Local Identifier
- program_no:274
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101739
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Mask for Jefferson"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Arent and stars Walter Huston. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, Frank Graham, announcers. The story of how Thomas Jefferson brought American ideas of democracy to France while he was Ambassador in Paris in 1783.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Local Identifier
- program_no:379
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101740
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Passage to Georgia"
- Description
- Written by Garrett Porter and stars Alfred Shirley. Features John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, and Ed Jerome. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Ted Jewett, Clayton Collyer, announcers. The story of James Oglethorpe, the Englishman who advocated social reform and later led in the colonizing of Georgia.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785
- Local Identifier
- program_no:222
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101716
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Plot to Kidnap General Washington"
- Description
- Written by Janet and Michael Ruscoll. Stars Edwin Gwenn and features Kenny Delmar, Adelaide Klein Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Local Identifier
- program_no:319
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101741
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Race For Lennie"
- Description
- Written by Morton Wishengrad and co-stars Richard Whorf and Vincent Price. Host--Walter Huston. Features John McIntire. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of the discovery of insulin by Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Best.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Insulin; Banting, Frederick Grant, Sir, 1891-1941; Best, Charles Herbert, 1899-1978
- Local Identifier
- program_no:420
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101742
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Sailor Who Had to Have a Horse"
- Description
- Written by Russell Hughes and Bernard Feins, and stars James Stewart. Features Vic Rodman, Joe Julian, Herb Vigran, Horace Murphy, Harry Jackson, Sid Miller, Eddie Marr, Mary Jane Croft. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of a sailor who carried a saddle and talisman throughout his military service, and who, despite all jeering, finally found himself a horse.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:453
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101743
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Ship to Remember"
- Description
- Written by Edith Sommer and co-stars Preston Foster and John Hodiak. Music by Robert Armbruster. Produced by Homer Fickett. James Bannon, Gaye Whitman, announcers. The story of the life and death of the aircraft carrier HORNET, based on the book by Alex Griffin.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; USS Hornet (Carrier)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:384
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101744
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Tooth for Paul Revere"
- Description
- Written by Stephen Vincent Benet and stars Raymond Massey. Features Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The story of Lige Butterwick, a man with a toothache, who went to see Paul Revere and who inadvertently started the American Revolution.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943; Revere, Paul, 1735-1818
- Local Identifier
- program_no:278
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101745
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "A Walk in the Sun"
- Description
- Written by Milton Wayne and co-stars Frank Lovejoy, Everett Sloane and Larry Haines. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Ted Pearson, Roland Winters, announcers. The intimate personal story of one infantry platoon during the invasion of Italy, from book by the same name.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:395
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101746
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Abraham Lincoln--The War Years"
- Description
- Written by Robert E. Sherwood and stars Raymond Massey. Features John McIntire, Bill Johnstone, others. Produced by Homer Fickett. Music by Donald Voorhees and the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Bud Collyer, William Spargo, announcers. Broadcast from Wilmington, Del. A repeat performance, by request, of the story of Lincoln during the War Years, as based on Carl Sandburg's timeless biography.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Local Identifier
- program_no:213
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101708
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Abraham Lincoln--The War Years"
- Description
- Broadcast from the Chicago Opera House. Written by Robert E. Sherwood and adapted from Carl Sanburg's biography. Stars Raymond Massey. Narrated by Thomas Chalmers. Anncr: Louis Rowan. Music and sound supervised by Donald Voorhees. Lincoln's presidential years dramatized from the Sanburg biography. Highlights his inauguration, etc.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Local Identifier
- program_no:174
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101670
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
- Description
- Written by Robert Meltzer and Norris Houghton. Stars Orson Welles and Karl Swenson. Features Kenny Delmar, Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The story of Christopher Columbus.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Columbus, Christopher
- Local Identifier
- program_no:300
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101747
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Admiral Peary Discovers The Pole"
- Description
- Written by Earl McGill and features the Cavalcade players (inc. Karl Swenson, John McIntyre, Bill Johnstone). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Till The Clouds Roll By." Special guest is Capt. Bob Bartlett, friend of Admiral Peary. Story dramatizes Peary's discovering the pole.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; Bartlett, Robert Abram, 1875-1946
- Local Identifier
- program_no:77
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101598
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Alaska Under Arms"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyons and stars Arlene Francis. Features Kenny Delmar and Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The story of Alaska and of the men who realized its importance, especially during wartime. Special guests is General C.L. Sturdavent, US Army.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Alaska
- Local Identifier
- program_no:305
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101748
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Alexander Graham Bell"
- Description
- Basil Ruysdael, Thomas Chalmers, anncrs. Features the Cavalcade Players (Bill Johnstone, Agnes Moorehead, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar, Bill Adams, Ed Jerome, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "From Now On." The story of a man who invented the telephone.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
- Local Identifier
- program_no:149
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101647
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "All That Money Can Buy"
- Description
- Written by Howard Teichman and Robert L. Richards. Stars Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, Anne Shirley, Jane Darwell and James Craig. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Bob Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, John Hiestand, anncrs. First radio presentation of the new film, based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "Devil and Daniel Webster".
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943; Devil and Daniel Webster [Motion Picture]
- Local Identifier
- program_no:249
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101749
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Allan Pinkerton"
- Description
- Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Features the Cavalcade Players (Ray Colliins, Kenny Delmar, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "Never Again." The story of America's great detective.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884
- Local Identifier
- program_no:152
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101650
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Ambulance Driver, Middle East"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Arent and stars Alan Ladd. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, George Albee, announcers. The story of William Prescott of the American Field Service, serving with the British Army in the Middle East, who tracked down a tribe of Bedouins, carriers of smallpox in the area, and inoculated them with the serum that controls the epidemic.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Smallpox; Prescott, William
- Local Identifier
- program_no:377
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101750
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "America For Christmas"
- Description
- Stars Walter Huston and Earl Robinson with Howard McNear. Written by peter Lyon and based on A.L. Botkin's book, "A Treasury of American Folklore." Music by Robert Armbruster's Orchestra and The Sportsmen Quartet. Anncr: Gayne Whitman. The story of how an itinerant USO camp show troupe performed for homesick GI's on small Pacific Island--singing songs and telling stories of America.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United Service Organizations (U.S.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:415
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101751
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Amerigo Vespucci"
- Description
- Stars Burgess Meredith with Ed Jerome, John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar, Stephan Schnabel, Bill Adams, Kingsley Coulton. Introduced by Dr. Frank Monaghan. Music by Donald Voorhees with production by Homer Fickett. Basil Ruysdael, Ted Jewett, anncrs. The story of the great Italian dreamer who first conceived the idea that there were lands beyond the Western Seas.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
- Local Identifier
- program_no:168
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101665
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "An American Is Born"
- Description
- Written by Arch Oboler and stars Bette Davis. Directed by Arch Oboler. Produced by Homer Fickett. Music composed by Gordon Jemkins and conducted by Don Voorhees. Features Raymond Edward Johnson. Bud Collyer, anncr. The story of a small group of people across the Mexican border who yearned for the liberty which is America and awaited the time when they could come to this country under quota.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Immigrants—Mexico
- Local Identifier
- program_no:262
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101752
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Angel on Horseback"
- Description
- Stars Jeanette Nolan with the Cavalcade Players (John McIntyre, Kenny Delmar, Ed Jerome, Bill Adams). Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, Thomas Chalmers, anncrs. The story of Mehitable Wing, pre-Revolutionary believer in the fact that the British system of land tenancy was unjust.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Wing, Mehitable, 1738-1812
- Local Identifier
- program_no:170
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101667
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Angels on Horseback"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Myrna Loy. Narrated by John McIntire and features Kenny Delmar, William Johnstone,and Karl Swenson. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The story of Dr. Mary Breckinridge and her creating and developing Frontier Nursing Service.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.;; Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965
- Local Identifier
- program_no:271
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101753
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Ann Rutledge and Abraham Lincoln"
- Description
- Written by Norman Corwin and stars Jeanette Nolan. Features Karl Swenson, John McIntire, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Kenny Delmar, Kingsley Coulton, Ed Jerome. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, William Spargo, announcers. The story of Ann Rutledge and her love for Lincoln.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Rutledge, Ann, 1813-1835 ||Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Local Identifier
- program_no:197
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101693
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Anne Hutchinson"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Agnes Moorehead. Features John McIntyre, Kenny Delmar, Ed Jerome, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of pioneer heroine and the leader in the cause of free worship.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hutchinson, Anne, 1591?-1643
- Local Identifier
- program_no:235
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101728
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Anne Royall"
- Description
- Starring Ethel Barrymore. Produced by Homer Fickett. Narrated by Basil Ruysdael. Music by Donald Voorhees. The story of Anne Royall's fight against hypocrisy in our government during the early half of the 19th century and of her trial on trumped-up charges which resulted in another triumph for American freedom of expression even though Royall was convicted.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Royall, Anne Newport, 1769-1854
- Local Identifier
- program_no:175
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101671
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Anne Sullivan Macy"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players including Agnes Moorehead, John McIntire, Bill Johnstone. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "The Song Is You." Special guests are Helen Keller and her companion, Polly Thompson. Program dramatizes highlights in the life of the devoted teacher of Helen Keller.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Macy, Anne Sullivan, 1866-1936
- Local Identifier
- program_no:124
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101572
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Annie Oakley"
- Description
- Written by Robert Richards and stars Agnes Moorehead. Features Kenny Delmar, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, John McIntyre. Produced by Homer Fickette with music by Donald Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of champion gunshot Annie Oakley.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926
- Local Identifier
- program_no:231
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101724
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Arrowsmith"
- Description
- Written by Margaret LeWerth and stars Tyrone Power. Features Howard McNear, Lurene Tuttle, Lou Merrill. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, John Hiestand, announcers. An adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' distinctive book about a young doctor and his struggles to combat ignorance and quackery in a small community with medical research.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951; Arrowsmith [Novel]
- Local Identifier
- program_no:267
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101754
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Arthur Schwartz"
- Description
- Starring Arthur Schwartz, Francia White with authors Lawrence Stallings and Owen Davis, Donald Voorhees and the Cavalcade Orchestra. Program features the music of Schwartz and also promotes the opening of his new musical "Virginia". 1-- "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans" - Orchestra 2- "Something to Remember You By" - Orchestra 3- "Love is a Dancing Thing" - White 4- Arthur Schwartz talks about and then Voorhees plays "Dancing in the Dark" 5- "You and the Night and the Music" - White 6- Schwartz introduces Stallings and Davis, authors of "Virginia" who talk about the show. Then Voorhees plays his favorite song from it, "An Old Flame Never Dies" 7- "My Heart is Dreaming" - White 8- "If You Were Someone Else" - Orchestra 9- "Goodbye Jonah" - Orchestra
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Schwartz, Arthur, 1900-1984
- Local Identifier
- program_no:97
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101614
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- Title
- Cavalcade of America: Artist to the Wounded
- Date
- 1945-05-07
- Description
- Program 434. Stars Geraldine Fitzgerald and features Howard McNear. Written by Bernard Reines. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of a young commercial artist who volunteered under USO auspices to help the wounded by sketching their portraits during their convalescence.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical drama
- Local Identifier
- cav-426
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17187
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Artist to the Wounded"
- Description
- Written by Bernard Reines and stars Geraldine Fitzgerald. Features Howard McNear. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of a young commercial artist who volunteered under USO auspices to held the wounded by sketching their portraits during their convalescence. Special V-E Day reminder at conclusion of show.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United Service Organizations (U.S.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:434
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101755
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "As A Man Thinketh"
- Description
- Written by Garrett Porter and stars Claude Rains. Features Bill Johnstone, John McIntire, Kenny Delmar, Ted Jewett, Ed Jerome, Karl Swenson. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. William Spargo, Clayton Collyer, announcers. The story of Thomas Cooper, who struggled to maintain an individual's right to a free opinion as defined in the Constitution.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
- Local Identifier
- program_no:209
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101705
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Assignment for the Prof"
- Description
- Written by Russell Hughes and Bernard Feins and stars Burgess Meredith. Music by Robert Ambruster. The story of a brief mission of a geology professor, who worked stealthily at night on the beaches of Normandy to prepare the way for the European invasion. PROGRAM DELAYED FOR NBC NEW BULLETIN: Latest report on the occupation of Japan. Pool announcer with news that the first troops have arrived in Japan. Unidentified announcer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Normandy Invasion, 1944 (Military operation)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:442
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101756
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Benedict Arnold"
- Description
- Stars Claude Rains with John McIntyre, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, Ted Jewett, anncrs. The story of the brilliant, erratic traitor of the American Revolution.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801
- Local Identifier
- program_no:181
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101677
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Bernadine, I Love You"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Miller and stars William Bendix. Features John McIntire. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of how a Red Cross field rep helped save a GI's marriage and thus restored the soldier's efficiency in battle.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Red Cross
- Local Identifier
- program_no:425
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101757
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Between Them Both"
- Description
- Stars Nancy Kelly. Announcer: Narrator Bud Collyer. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Music conducted by Don Voorhees. Written by Kay Van Riper. The story of how the war changed the lives of a typical American family on the home front.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; American family; World War II
- Local Identifier
- program_no:312
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101758
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Big Boy Blue"
- Description
- Written by Gerald Holland. Stars Henry Fonda. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of Eugene Field, boyish, eternally young, whose verses endeared him to the nation.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
- Local Identifier
- program_no:457
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101759
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Blazing Trails For Science"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players including Bill Adams, Ray Collins, John McIntire, Karl Swenson. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture Voorhees offers "Some Day My Prince Will Come". Special guest is Dr. Hiram Lukens of the University of PA. Program dramatizes the life of scientist Robert Hare.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
- Local Identifier
- program_no:117
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101634
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Blessings of Liberty"
- Description
- Written by Robert Richards and stars John Garfield with Howard McNear. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The dramatic portrayal of many of the reasons why Jim Hunter, typical American private, is fighting the war.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United States--Constitution.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:383
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101760
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Bob Hope Reports"
- Description
- Written by Glenn Wheaton. Starring Bob Hope. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Announcer: James Bannon. Cmcl. Salesman: Gayne Whitman. Music by Robert Armbruster. The story of Bob Hope's tour through the battlefields and camps of England and Sicily to entertain the servicemen overseas.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hope, Bob, 1903-2003
- Local Identifier
- program_no:352
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101761
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Bolivar, The Liberator"
- Description
- Written by Dudley Nichols and Robert Tallman. Stars Paul Muni with John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Carl Frank, Bud Collyer, anncrs. The story of the liberator of South America.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830
- Local Identifier
- program_no:247
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101762
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Boomerang"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters. Stars Frank Lovejoy and Everett Sloane. Music by Don Voorhees. Announcer Roland Winters. Cmcl Salesman Ted Pearson. Taken from the book of the same name, the story of how a crew of American soldiers captures and boards a Japanese destroyer and sailed undetected into a Japanese convoy.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hokaidokaze (Destroyer)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:392
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101763
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Buffalo Bill-The Last of the Scouts"
- Description
- Donald Voorhees begins the program with "Wagon Wheels." Program dramatizes little known incidents in the life of the great scout and plainsman. Stars John McIntire with Bill Adams, Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 (William Frederick Cody)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:125
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101573
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Build Me Straight"
- Description
- Written by Phyllis Parker and co-stars Joseph Cotton and Claire Trevor. Music by Robert Armbruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of Donald McKay, a ship builder, and his dream, "The Sovereign of the Seas."
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; McKay, Donald, 1810-1880
- Local Identifier
- program_no:461
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101764
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Building and Architecture"
- Description
- Feature the Cavalcade Players inc. Orson Welles, Bill Adams, Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Country Dance". Program dramatizes the building of Independence Hall and the Empire State Building.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.); Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:15
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101582
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Burma Surgeon"
- Description
- Written by Milton Wayne and Robert Richards. Stars George Brent with William Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Bob Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, James Bannonm announcers. Adapted from the book of the same name by Lt. Col. Gordon Seagrave, who devoted 20 years of his life to teaching and healing the natives of the Burma jungle, prior to Japanese invasion.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Seagrave, Gordon Stifler, 1897-1965
- Local Identifier
- program_no:355
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101765
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Captain Paul"
- Description
- Written by John Driscoll and Arthur Miller. Stars Claude Rains with Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, John McIntire. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, anncr. Presented in observance of Navy Day, this is the story of John Paul Jones, great Naval hero.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792
- Local Identifier
- program_no:250
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101766
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Captain Robert Gray"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Adams, John McIntire, Ed Jerome, Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Thine Alone" from Victor Herbert's "Eileen." Program dramatizes the discovery of the Columbia River, which secured the territory now included in the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho for the USA.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Columbia River; Gray, Robert, 1755-1806
- Local Identifier
- program_no:126
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101574
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Captains of the Clouds"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Jimmy Cagney with an all-star cast that includes Reginald Denny, Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale, Miles Mander, Sqd. Ldr. Owne Jones and Morton Lowrey. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. John Hiestand, Gayne Whitman, anncrs. Based on the new Warner Brothers picture, this is the story of a bush pilot who is rejected by the Canadian Air Force, but later is given an opportunity to prove his ability.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bush pilots; Captains of the clouds [Motion Picture]
- Local Identifier
- program_no:264
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101767
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Cargo Over Burma"
- Description
- Written by Sgt. Jack Denove and co-stars Michael O’Shea and Richard Conte. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of the day in the life of a crew of combat cargo flyers, as they hauled freight over towering mountains, combating zeros and rebellious Japanese prisoners.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Burma
- Local Identifier
- program_no:443
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101768
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Charlotte Cushman"
- Description
- Donald Voorhees and the orchestra perform "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" and "Sally In Our Alley" as an overture. Then, a re-enactment of the career of America's first great actress who was one of the most versatile players in the American Theater. Program traces her career from an opera singer to the great feminine leads of Shakespeare and in "Guy Mannering." With Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone, John McIntyre, Karl Swenson.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876
- Local Identifier
- program_no:128
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101576
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Check Your Heart at Home"
- Description
- Tape 1- Written by Milton Wayne and stars Shirley Booth. Features Burl Ives as a folksinger. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Carl Frank, Bud Collyer, announcers. The story of a Red Cross recreation worker, based on the book, "They Sent Me to Iceland" by Jane Goodall. Tape 2-Part II.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Red Cross. Iceland
- Local Identifier
- program_no:361
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101769
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Children, This Is Your Father"
- Description
- Written by Priscilla Kent and stars Loretta Young. Features Gale Gordon, Marlene Ames, Tommy Bernard. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of an ordinary man, whose family built up a legend of heroism while he was away fighting World War II and who, on his return, had to destroy the legend and become again just a loved father.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:449
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101770
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Cimarron"
- Description
- Written by Paul Franklin and Robert Tallman. Stars Irene Dunne with Howard McNear, Gale Gordon. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. John Hiestand, Gayne Whitman, anncrs. First radio adaptation of the new RKO picture about two dynamic and determined individuals during the days of the Oklahoma Land Rush.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Cimarron [Motion Picture]; Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889, 1893
- Local Identifier
- program_no:255
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101771
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "City of Illusion"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Agnes Moorehead. Features the Cavalcade Players. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the fabulous silver bonanza at Virginia City, Nevada.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Virginia City (Nev.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:244
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101772
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Clara Louise Kellogg"
- Description
- Features vocalist Maria Sylvera and the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson). Music by Donald Voorhees. The story of America's first prima donna.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Kellogg, Clara Louise, 1842-1916
- Local Identifier
- program_no:106
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101623
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Clifford Holland"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars William Johnstone. Features Karl Swenson, John McIntyre, Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of Clifford Holland and his building of the famed Holland Tunnel.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Holland, Clifford, 1883-1924; Holland Tunnel (New York, N.Y.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:237
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101730
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Cole Porter"
- Description
- Starring Conrad Thibault with Donald Voorhees and the Cavalcade Orchestra. 1- "An Old-fashioned Garden" - Orchestra 2- "You Do Something to Me" - Orchestra 3- "Night and Day" - Thibault 4- "What is This Thing Called Love?" - Orchestra 5- "You’re the Top" - Orchestra 6- "Easy to Love" - Thibault 7- " Get a Kick Out of You" - Orchestra 8- "Anyhting Goes", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "It's Delovely" - Thibault and Voorhees
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
- Local Identifier
- program_no:100
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101617
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Conquest of Pain"
- Description
- Written by Morton Wishengrasd and stars Brian Donlevy. Host--Walter Huston. Features Howard McNear. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Arnbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of the struggle to make widespread the use of ether, involving physicians Crawford Long and John Warren and dentists Horace Wells and William Morton.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Ether; Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878; Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856; Wells, Horace, 1815-1848; Morton, William Thomas Green, 1819-1868
- Local Identifier
- program_no:413
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101773
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Conservation"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Adams, Parker Fenneley, Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone. As an overture, the orchestra offers "Trees". Story of the Forest Rangers in action.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Forest rangers
- Local Identifier
- program_no:25
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101591
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Continue Unloading"
- Description
- Written by Stanley Young and co-stars John Garfield and Wally Maher. Features Bill Johnstone . Music by Robert Armbruster with production by Homer Fickett. Gayne Whitman, James Bannon, announcers. The story of a Coast Guard cameraman and his part in the landing operations in the invasion of Sicily.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Sicily Invasion, 1943 (Military operation)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:351
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101774
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Daniel Boone"
- Description
- Stars John McIntyre. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Basil Ruysdael, host. Ted Jewett, anncr. Music by Donald Voorhees. The story of the colorful American frontiersman who led the vanguard of American migration through the wilderness to the vast plains of the West. Particular emphasis on his settlement at Boonesboro, Ky.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820; Boonesboro (Ky.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:183
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101679
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "David Crockett"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars John McIntyre. Features Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the great frontiersman.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Crockett, David
- Local Identifier
- program_no:227
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101721
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "DDT"
- Description
- Written by Charles Rabiner and stars Richard Whorf. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of how the new weapon against typhus, DDT, conquered the threat of epidemic in Italy shortly after the American invasion.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; DDT (Insecticide)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:441
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101775
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dear Funnyface"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and stars Wendy Barrie and Alfred Drake. Produced by Homer Pickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, announcer. The story of the Seabees, the Navy's Construction Battalion and of a particular Seabee reported missing in action. Special guest is Capt. John Perry of the Seabees.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United States Navy Construction Battalion
- Local Identifier
- program_no:346
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101776
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Defiance of Nature"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players (John McIntyre, Orson Welles, Bill Adams, ray Collins). Music by Harold Levey. Music heard is Levey's "Cavalcade Overtures" and melodies from the Broadway show "Sally". Program dramatizes the building of the Erie Canal and also, The Holland Tunnel.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Erie Canal (N.Y.); Holland Tunnel (New York, N.Y.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:11
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101578
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Diamonds at War"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Charles Coburn. Music by Don Voorhees. Produced by Homer Fickett. Bud Collyer, announcer. A Nazi spy melodrama about the importance of industrial diamonds to the war effort, based on "They Deal in Death", by Robert Terrall.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Industrial diamonds
- Local Identifier
- program_no:341
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101777
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Diary of a Saboteur"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Mildred Natwick and Joseph Schildkraut. Feature Bill Johnstone and Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. A fictionalized treatment of the machinations of a psychological lab of the Nazis, based on the book "Sabotage" by Sayers and Kahn. Cavalcade actor Ted Jewett comments on the DuPont Wilmington Dye Works winning the Army-Navy "E" award. Also, dye worker Al Brown comments on the award .
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Nazi; Army-Navy "E" Award; Sabotage! (Novel); DuPont Wilmington Dye Works
- Local Identifier
- program_no:320
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101779
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Diary on a Pig Boat"
- Description
- Written by Stuart Hawkins and stars Edwin Jerome. Features Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The adventure of a submarine and her crew, based on a story by Fredrick Painton. Special guest is a sub commander LTC Willard Saunders, USN, winner of the Navy Cross.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Submarine; Saunders, Willard Arthur
- Local Identifier
- program_no:313
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101778
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Direction Home"
- Description
- Written by Russell Hughes and Bernard Feins and stars Thomas Mitchell. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of a young soldier on the home front who finally persuades his prospective father-in-law that war can be fought without a uniform. Program dramatizes the development and use of radar.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Radar
- Local Identifier
- program_no:456
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101780
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Doctor in Crinoline"
- Description
- Written by Merrill Dennison and stars Loretta Young. Host--Walter Huston. Features Howard McNear, John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of Elizabeth Blackwell, first American woman doctor.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
- Local Identifier
- program_no:414
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101781
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Doctora In Mexico"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Arent and stars Irene Dunne. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, Frank Graham, anncrs. The story of Dr. Katherine Neel Dale and her medical missionary work among impoverished Mexican peasants.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Dale, Katherine Neel, 1872-1941
- Local Identifier
- program_no:431
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101782
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dolly Madison"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Agnes Moorehead, Bill Adams, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, Karl Swenson. Music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Highlights in the life of Dolley Madison. As an overture, Voorhees offers "A New Moon, An Old Serenade."
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849
- Local Identifier
- program_no:166
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101663
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: Donald Vorhees Own Program
- Description
- Cavalcade of Music summer series. Music by Conrad Thibault and Donald Voorhees and Cavalcade Orch. Dwight Weist, anncr. Voorhees own program. 1- "Whispering" - Orch 2- "Vision Fugitive" - Thibault 3- "Capricio Espangole" - Orch 4- "Japanese Sandman" - Orch 5- "Standing In The Need of Prayer" - Thibault 6- "Louisiana Hayride" - Orch
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Voorhees, Donald, 1903-1989
- Local Identifier
- program_no:101
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101618
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Double Play"
- Description
- Written by Isabel Leighton and co-stars Brian Donlevy and Kent Smith. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, James Bannon, announcers. The story of two brothers, in love with the same girl, and how they double-played a Japanese ship out of existence.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:347
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101783
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Doughnut Girl"
- Description
- Written by Edith Sommer and stars Lana Turner. Host--Walter Huston. Features John McIntire. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of a recreation worker with the Red Cross in New Guinea.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Red Cross. New Guinea
- Local Identifier
- program_no:412
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101784
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Down to the Sea"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars William Johnstone. Features Aagnes Moorehead, John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar, Ray Collins. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Richard Stark, Bud Collyer, announcers. The story of author Herman Melville.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- Local Identifier
- program_no:219
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101714
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dr. Franklin Goes to Court"
- Description
- Written by Eric Barnouw and stars John McIntyre. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Features Ray Collins, Karl Swenson, Sara Fussel, George Coulouris, Elliot Reed, Kenny Delmar. Bud Collyer, Bill Spargo, anncrs. The strategist diplomat wins the French court minus wig and sword and carries home the treaties that ultimately resulted in the independence of the USA.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Local Identifier
- program_no:200
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101696
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dr. John Gorrie"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Bill Adams, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "When You're Away." The story of the perfection of the 1st ice-making machine.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music ||Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery; Air conditioning; Gorrie, John, 1803-1855
- Local Identifier
- program_no:139
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101637
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Dr.Franklin Takes it Easy"
- Description
- Written by Eric Barnouw and stars John McIntire. Features Sara Fussel and Karl Swenson. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. William Spargo, Clayton Collyer, announcers. The story of how Benjamin Franklin's amazing inventive genius was coupled with a new concept of freedom to be won for the human spirit--freedom from drudgery, discomfort and want--through intelligence.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Local Identifier
- program_no:211
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101706
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Drums Along The Mohawk"
- Description
- Written by Howard Teichman and stars Henry Fonda. Features John McIntyre, Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar and Jeanette Nolan. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, anncr. Program dramatizes life in the Mohawk Valley. Based on recent book and film of the same title.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:252
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101785
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eagle to Britain"
- Description
- Written by Milton Geiger and Peter Lyon and stars Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. A story of the Ferry Command, which guides thousands of miles across the ocean.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:297
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101786
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Edgar Allen Poe"
- Description
- Written by Norman Rosten and stars Karl Swenson. Features Terita Bauer, Ray Collins, John McIntire, Bill Johnstone, Ed Jerome, Agnes Moorehead, Jeanette Nolan. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. William Spargo, Bud Collyer, announcers. Highlights from the life of the great American writer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- Local Identifier
- program_no:215
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101710
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Edward Bok"
- Description
- Gabriel Hatter, host. Thomas Chalmers, narrator. Features the Cavalcade Players (Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, others). Donald Voorhees and His Orchestra. As an overture, Voorhees plays "September Song." This is the story of the great humanitarian and publisher of the Ladies Home Journal.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930; Ladies Home Journal
- Local Identifier
- program_no:147
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101645
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Edwin Booth"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players inc. Ray Collins, Karl Swenson and Bill Johnstone. Program dramatizes events in the life of actor Edwin Booth. Overture is "Make Believe".
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Local Identifier
- program_no:102
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101619
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Edwin Booth"
- Description
- Written by Norman Rosten and stars Paul Muni. Features John McIntire, Kenny Delmar, Ed Jerome, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer and Dick Stark, anncrs. Highlights from the life of the great American actor of Civil War times.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Local Identifier
- program_no:220
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101715
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Ed Jerome, Kenny Delmar, Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, others. Music by Donald Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, Thomas Chalmers, anncrs. As an overture, Voorhees plays "I'll Follow My Secret Heart." Repeat broadcast of 6/29/38, highlighting the life of the founder of the Du Pont Company. Final CBS broadcast.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; DuPont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834
- Local Identifier
- program_no:167
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101664
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eliza Ann Brooks"
- Description
- Features Agnes Moorehead and the Cavalcade Players (Ray Collins, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, others). Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Wagon Wheels." Events in the story of the pioneer mother who crossed the American frontier to California alone, with her 6 children in a covered wagon.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Brooks, Eliza Ann
- Local Identifier
- program_no:159
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101657
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Elmer Ambrose Sperry"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Whispers In The Dark". Episodes in the life of the great American inventor.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Sperry, Elmer Ambrose, 1860-1930
- Local Identifier
- program_no:107
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101624
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Enoch Crosby, The Spy"
- Description
- Stars Henry Hull with Ray Collins, John McIntyre, Ed Jerome and Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Ted Jewett, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. The story of the great Revolutionary War spy, Enoch Crosby.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Crosby, Enoch, 1750-1835
- Local Identifier
- program_no:176
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101672
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Enterprise"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Johnstone, Orson Welles Bill Adams, Ray Collins. Ted Jewett, anncr. As an overture the orchestra plays "Country Gardens". Program dramatizes the life of Frederic Tudor, the man who brought ice to the tropics, and the new air route across the Pacific.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864
- Local Identifier
- program_no:17
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101584
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Ernestine Schumann-Heink"
- Description
- Starring Jeanette Nolan and Helen Oldheim. Program traces the life of the great German contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink from her beginning in Vienna, her first role, marriage, first major appearance in Carmen, night when she sang for Johannes Brahams, debut in America in Chicago performance of Lohengrin, first child born in America, Silent Night tradition Christmas Eve.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
- Local Identifier
- program_no:115
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101632
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eve of Conflict"
- Description
- Written by Garrett Porter and stars Kenny Delmer. Features John McIntire and Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the great Lincoln-Douglas debates prior to Lincoln's ascendancy to the Presidency.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
- Local Identifier
- program_no:240
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101733
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Fame in Literature"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Adams, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead. As an overture, the orchestra offers "Father of Waters" and "Huck Finn" from Grofe's "Mississippi Suite". Program highlights the life of Mark Twain, and the life of Louisa May Alcott .
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
- Local Identifier
- program_no:26
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101592
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Fat Girl"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and stars Edward Arnold. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. Featured at the conclusion of the broadcast are author Isabel Leighton and Captain John Phillips of the USS NEOSHO. The story of auxiliary oiler, the USS NEOSHO, taken from the true story "Fat Girl" by Isabel Leighton and Charles Rawlings.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; USS Neosho (Tanker)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:330
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101787
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Feast From the Harvest"
- Description
- Written and narrated by Louis Bronfield. Features Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, James McCallion Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. An original story about a wartime Thanksgiving.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Thanksgiving day
- Local Identifier
- program_no:306
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101788
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Flight Nurse"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and Charles Rabiner and co-stars Marsha Hunt and Majorie Reynolds. Features John McIntire and Howard McNear. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of how a transport crew and two plucky nurses brought their cargo of wounded through the dangers of Pacific storm.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:424
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101789
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Francis Scott Key"
- Description
- Stories from the life of the man who wrote the words of our National Anthem and featuring the events leading up to its composition.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Star-spangled banner (Song)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:120
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101568
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "From Emporia, Kansas"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Frank Readick and Parker Fenneley. Music by Don Voorhees with production by Homer Fickett. Ted Pearson, Roland Winters, announcers. The story of a newspaperman William Allen White.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; White, William Allen, 1868-1944
- Local Identifier
- program_no:391
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101790
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "George Gershwin"
- Description
- Thomas Chalmers, host. Basil Ruysdael, anncr. Music by Donald Voorhees. The life story of the great American composer from his days as a song plugger to his great musicals of the 1930's. Many of Gershwin's greatest songs are featured. With Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, Ray Collins.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937
- Local Identifier
- program_no:154
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101652
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "George Washington, Farmer"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade players (Bill Johnstone, Ed Jerome, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "Here In My Arms" by Rodgers & Hart. Program dramatizes Washington's efforts as a scientific farmer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Local Identifier
- program_no:80
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101601
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Geronimo"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Kenny Delmar. Features Bill Johstone, John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Jeanette Nolan, Ed Jerome, Everett Sloane. Produced by Homer Fickett woith music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the Apache chief Geronimo.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Geronimo, 1829-1909
- Local Identifier
- program_no:243
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101793
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "G.I. Valentine"
- Description
- Written by Frank Gabrielson and co-stars Frances Langford, June Lockhart and Tony Romano. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Bob Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of what one woman discovered about the country's fighting men-- their thoughts of home, wives, and sweethearts.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:370
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101792
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "G.I.Circuit"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and co-stars Ann Sothern and Joe. E Brown. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of the small-time vaudevillians and performers who made up the largest percentage of personnel in the USO camp shows.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United Service Organizations (U.S.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:375
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101791
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Grandpa and The Statue"
- Description
- Stars Charles Laughton, John McIntire, Arthur Shields. Written by Arthur Miller. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of an old man's slow discovery of what the Statue of Liberty stands for in the hearts of all Americans.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Statue of Liberty National Monument (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:428
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101794
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA"
- Description
- Written and narrated by Albert Payson Terhune. Stars Karl Swenson with John McIntyre, Ed Jerome, Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, Agnes Moorehead. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Dick Stark, Bud Collyer, anncrs. This is the story of ASPCA founder, Henry Bergh.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888
- Local Identifier
- program_no:223
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101717
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Henry Clay of Kentucky"
- Description
- Written by Garrett Porter and stars Ray Collins. Features Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, John McIntire. Music by Donald Voorhees with production by Homer Fickett. William Spargo, Clayton Collier, announcers. The story of Henry Clay's return from retirement to politics as an old man. Program dramatizes the Great Compromise of 1850, which preserved the Union from Civil War. Beginning of Lucky Strik's "Vox Pop" included.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
- Local Identifier
- program_no:212
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101707
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Heroes of The Sea"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Ray Collins, John McIntire, Bill Johnstone. As an overture, the orchestra offers a medley of sea songs. Two sea stories, how the clipper ship "Flying Cloud" reached San Francisco in 89 days, and the story of a sea rescue.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Flying Cloud (Clipper-ship)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:21
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101587
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "How to Build Paradise"
- Description
- Written by Phillip Lewis and stars Robert Young. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. Based on the book Mob 3 by Capt. Robert Parson, this is the story of the building of a modern hospital in the mire of the jungle to care for men wounded in the surrounding fighting areas.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hospital; United States. Navy. Medical Dept.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:436
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101795
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Hymn For The Night"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Rosiland Russell. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Features Howard McNear and John McIntire. Walter Huston, host. Gayne Whitman, anncr. With this broadcast, COA begins its 10th season on the air. Drama tells the story of Julia Ward Howe and her great Civil War poem, 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910; Battle hymn of the republic (Poem)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:401
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101796
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "I Count the Days"
- Description
- Starring Signe Hasso and written by Bernard Dryer. With Elliott Lewis. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of a Dutch refugee who found a reason for living in the rehabilitation work she was doing in Germany and in her love for an American officer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:454
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101797
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "I, Mary Washington"
- Description
- The story of George Washington’s mother, Mary.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Washington, Mary Ball, 1708-1789
- Local Identifier
- program_no:291
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101798
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "I Sing a New World"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars John McIntire. Features the Cavalcade Players. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, announcers. The story of Walt Whitman and how he infused Americans with his works.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Local Identifier
- program_no:218
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101713
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "I Was Married on Bataan"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Miller. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Stars Madeleine Carroll and Kenny Delmar. Music composed by and conducted by Don Voorhees. Narrator/Announcer is Bud Collyer. The story of an Army nurse, Lt. Dorothea Engel, who served her country through the tragic and heroic days of the fall of Manila and through the horrors of Bataan and Corregidor.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942; Corregidor, Battle of, Philippines, 1945; Engel, Dorothea
- Local Identifier
- program_no:299
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101799
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Immortal Wife"
- Description
- Written by Halsted Welles and stars Ida Lupino. Host--Walter Huston. Features John McIntire, Frank Graham. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. From the book of the same name by Irving Stone, this is the story of Jessie Benton Fremont. Wife of explorer, soldier and statesman John Fremont.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902
- Local Identifier
- program_no:418
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101800
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "In the Best Tradition"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Orson Welles. Features Kenny Delmar, Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. Broadcast in commemoration of Navy Day, 1942. The story of John A. Dahlgren--the man who became the pilot guiding our Navy through a period of change following the Civil War.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870
- Local Identifier
- program_no:302
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101802
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "In This Crisis"
- Description
- Written by Robert L. Richards and stars Claude Rains. Features Ray Collins. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. John Hiestand, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of Thomas Paine, spokeman of freedom and the spirit he had which was durable as iron.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Local Identifier
- program_no:275
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101801
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Jane Addams of Hull House"
- Description
- Stars Helen Hayes. Produced by Homer Fickett. Music by Donald Voorhees. Written by Robert Tallman. Basil Ruysdael, anncr. Broadcast from the Auditorium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A portrayal of the great humanitarian who devoted her life to sociological improvements and the welfare of mankind.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Local Identifier
- program_no:188
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101684
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Jean Laffite"
- Description
- Stars William Johnstone with John McIntyre, Ed Jerome, Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, others. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Introduced by Dr. Frank Monaghan. Highlights fromt the life of the notorious French pirate who aided Andrew Jackson and thus averted British attack on New Orleans.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lafitte, Jean Baptista
- Local Identifier
- program_no:173
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101669
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Jean Pierre Blanchard"
- Description
- Written by Garrett Porter and stars Edwin Jerome. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Features Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, Karl Swenson, John McIntire, Bill Johnstone. Dick Stark, Clayton Collyer, anncrs. The story of a balloonist Jean Blanchard and of his epic flight in 1796 from Philadelphia across Delaware River.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Blanchard, Jean
- Local Identifier
- program_no:233
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101726
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Joe Dyer Ends a War"
- Description
- Written by Victor Wolfson and Robert Richards. Stars James Craig and Beulah Bondi. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Bob Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. Features Bill Johnstone. The story of a boundary dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylvania and how that dispute was settled by arbitration. Both discs cracked--both poor pressings.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Connecticut; Pennsylvania
- Local Identifier
- program_no:356
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101803
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Joel Chandler Harris"
- Description
- Stars Karl Swenson with script by Arthur Miller. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Features Bill Johnstone, John McIntire, Ray Collins. Dick Stark, Clayton Collyer, anncrs. The story of the outstanding Southern writer and humorist.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
- Local Identifier
- program_no:232
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101725
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Bartram's Garden"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "An Old Fashioned Garden". The story of America's first great botanist.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bartram, John, 1699-1777
- Local Identifier
- program_no:108
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101625
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Brown"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman. Stars John McIntyre. Narrated by William Spargo. Bud Collyer, anncr. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Music by Donald Voorhees. A stirring drama of the pre-Civil War conflicts centering around fanatical John Brown whom Lincoln called "the wrongest right man who ever lived". Program begins with Brown's work in Kansan and follow his life through his capture at Harper's Ferry and his eventual hanging.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Brown, John, 1800-1859
- Local Identifier
- program_no:204
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101700
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Fitch"
- Description
- Stars Thomas Mitchell. Directed by Homer Fickett. Music by Donald Voorhees. Ted Jewett, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. The story of the inventor of the steamboat, his struggles against disbelief, lack of confidence and overwhelming failure--but a story of one man's firm adherence to his idea and his conviction that one day would see it realized.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Fitch, John, 1743-1798
- Local Identifier
- program_no:180
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101676
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Honeyman"
- Description
- Gabriel Hatter, host. Thomas Chalmers, narrator. Music by Donald Voorhees. Features the Cavalcade Players (Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, Agnes Moorehead, Kenny Delmar, others). As an overture, Voorhees plays "F. D. R. Jones." This is the story of New Jersey butcher who posed as a spy during the Revolution, and through his efforts, led Washington to cross the Delaware and take Trenton.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Honeyman, John, 1729-1822
- Local Identifier
- program_no:146
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101644
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Howard Payne"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Agnes Moorehead, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar. Music by Donald Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, Thomas Chalmers, anncrs. The story of American composer John Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home." As an overture, Voorhees offers "Heaven Can Wait."
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
- Local Identifier
- program_no:160
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101658
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Jacob Astor"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture Voorhees offers "Pale Moon". Highlights incidents in the life of Astor.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848
- Local Identifier
- program_no:105
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101622
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John James Audubon"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, John McIntyre). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers selections from "Snow White." Program dramatizes the life of the French-American naturalist.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
- Local Identifier
- program_no:127
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101575
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- Title
- Cavalcade of America: John Sutter
- Date
- 1940-06-04
- Description
- Program 190. Stars Edwin Jerome with Kenny Delmar, John McIntire, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, announcer. The story of the Swiss immigrant who founded an empire in California.
- Series
- Entertainment programs -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical drama
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Sutter, John Augustus, 1826-1897
- Local Identifier
- cav-181
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17186
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "John Sutter"
- Description
- Stars Edwin Jerome with Kenny Delmar, John McIntire, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, announcer. The story of the Swiss immigrant who founded an empire in California.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
- Local Identifier
- program_no:190
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101686
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Johnny Comes Home"
- Description
- Written by Philip Gelb and Norman Barnes and co-stars Robert Walker and Marsha Hunt. Features Howard McNear, Louise Ericson, Charles Carroll, Jerry Hausner, Sidney Miller, Ken Peters. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of the community plan of Albert Lea, Minn., and how it helped a returned veteran start a successful business.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Albert Lea (Minn.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:450
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101804
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Johns Hopkins"
- Description
- Written by Norman Rosten and stars Karl Swenson. Features Ray Collins, John McIntyre, Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, Agnes Moorhead. Produced by Homer Fivkett with music by Donald Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of Johns Hopkins, founder of the famed Baltimore university and hospital.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hopkins, Johns, 1795-1873
- Local Identifier
- program_no:228
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101722
- Rights statement
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Josephine Baker"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Agnes Moorehead. Features Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, John McIntire. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of Dr. Josephine Baker and her contribution of a public health service with emphasis on children's ailments.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Public Health; Baker, Sara Josephine, 1873-1945
- Local Identifier
- program_no:238
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101731
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Juarez"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Miller and stars Orson Welles. Features Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The story of the liberator of Mexico.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Juárez, Benito, 1806-1872
- Local Identifier
- program_no:298
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101805
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Juliette Low"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Agnes Moorehead and Karl Swenson. Music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. As an overture, Voorhees offers "And The Angels Sing." The story of the founder of the Girl Scouts.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Girl Scouts; Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927
- Local Identifier
- program_no:164
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101661
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Junior Angel"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and co-stars Virignia Weidler and Jane Darwell. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by DonVoorhees. Roland Winters, Bud Collyer, announcers. The story of work done by Student Aides in hospitals on the home front. Interview with Margaret Collette, a student hospital aide.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Nurse' aides.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:372
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101806
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Adams, Ray Collins, Ed Jerome, Kenny Delmar, Agnes Moorehead. Music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Highlights from the life of the great Supreme Court Justice. As an overture, Voorhees plays "The Touch of Your Hand."
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
- Local Identifier
- program_no:165
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101662
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "King Coal"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar, Bill Adams, Ed Jerome). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Let Me Whisper." Events in the early history of anthracite coal and its uses in America.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Anthracite coal
- Local Identifier
- program_no:138
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101636
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Kit Carson"
- Description
- Thomas Chalmers, host. Basil Ruysdael, anncr. Music by Donald Voorhees. Voorhees opens with "Carry Me Back To Lone Prairie." Then the story of America's colorful frontier scout and his life in the days when the west was being developed prior to the Civil War. With Bill Adams, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
- Local Identifier
- program_no:153
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101651
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Knute Rockne"
- Description
- Gabriel Hatter, host. Thomas Chalmers, narrator. Features the Cavalcade players (w/Kenny Delmar, others). Music by Donald Voorhees and his Orchestra. Voorhees plays "At Long Last Love" as an overture. Drama highlights the career of Notre Dame's beloved football coach.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931
- Local Identifier
- program_no:142
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101640
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Leif Ericsson"
- Description
- Written by Norman Rosten and stars Karl Swenson. Features John McIntire, Bill Johnstone, Everett Sloane, Jeanette Nolan, Frank Readick. Produced by Homer Ficktett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the famed Norse chieftan who is believed to be the first European to live in the New World.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Erikson, Leif
- Local Identifier
- program_no:242
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101807
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Lifetide"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Walter Pidgeon. Walter Huston, host. Features Howard McNear. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of Dr. Norman Bethune, who pioneered the development of the mobile blood bank and made the world aware of the benefits of blood plasma.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Mobile blood bank; Bethune, Norman
- Local Identifier
- program_no:402
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101809
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Lifetide"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Alfred Lunt. Features Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. Based on the book "Dr. Bethune" by Ted Allen , this is the story of Dr. Norman Bethune, who tended the wounded in both Spain and China and who contributed to the development of mobile blood banks. Program is dedicated to the American Red Cross.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Mobile blood bank; Bethune, Norman
- Local Identifier
- program_no:323
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101808
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Light In The Hills"
- Description
- Written by Margaret Lewerth adn stars Agnes Moorhead. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Features John McIntyre, Karl Swenson, Kenny Delmar, Bill Johnstone, Jeanette Nolan, Kingsley Coulton, Ray Collins, Edward Jerome. Bill Spargo, Bud Collyer, anncrs. The story of Martha Berry and her struggles to establish her school in Georgia for the free education and the training of poor children and young men and women of the South.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Education; Berry, Martha, 1866-1942
- Local Identifier
- program_no:202
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101698
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Listen to the Sound of Winds"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Miller and stars Paul Lukas. Narrated by Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, announcer. The story of the Pastor Martin Niemoeller, imprisoned by the Nazis for his religious beliefs.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Niemoeller, Martin, 1892-1984
- Local Identifier
- program_no:327
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101810
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Lovely Lady"
- Description
- Written by Daniel Tradrash and co-stars Ted de Corsia and Ed Jerome. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Ted Pearson, Roland Winters, announcers. The story of Pvt. Minelli, who, during the invasion of Sicily, performed a miracle with his bulldozer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Operation Husky, 1943
- Local Identifier
- program_no:393
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101811
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Loyalty To Family"
- Description
- Features Ray Collins & The Cavalcade Players. Music by The Cavalcade Orchestra. As an overture, the orchestra plays Logan's "Pale Moon". Program dramatizes the trip of Elizabeth Harper to the Ohio Territory.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Harper, Elizabeth
- Local Identifier
- program_no:18
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101585
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Luther Burbank"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players (Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, Ray Collins, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "Float On" from Friml's "Hi Jinx". Program dramatizes incidents in the life of plant wizard Luther Burbank.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926
- Local Identifier
- program_no:89
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101609
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Make Way for the Lady"
- Description
- Written by Sidney Alexander and stars Madeline Carroll. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, announcer. The story of Mary Putnam Jacobi, famous woman pediatrician.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906
- Local Identifier
- program_no:335
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101812
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Man of Design"
- Description
- The story of Eli Whitney, the man who gave America the cotton gin and the story of how he developed interchangeable parts in the early 19th century, helping to frustrate Emperor Napoleon.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825
- Local Identifier
- program_no:289
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101813
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Marie Dressler"
- Description
- Host-Thomas Chalmers. Basil Ruysdael, anncr. Music by Donald Voorhees. Voorhees begins program with "This is It." Then, the drama traces the career of the "Ugly Duckling", from her first sole as a bit player to her fabulously successful movie career of the 1930's.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934
- Local Identifier
- program_no:156
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101654
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Mark Twain"
- Description
- Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Features the Cavalcade Players (Agnes Moorehead, Bill Johnstone, Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, Ed Jerome, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "Ol' Man River." Highlights from the life of the great American writer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 ||Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
- Local Identifier
- program_no:150
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101648
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Mary Lyon, Pioneer Woman Educator"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Johnstone and Ray Collins. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Crinoline Days". Story of the founder of Mt. Holyoke College.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849; Mt. Holyoke College
- Local Identifier
- program_no:103
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101620
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Men In White"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars Franchot Tone. Features John McIntire and Karl Swenson. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, anncr. The story of a young physician in a modern day hospital setting.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Physician
- Local Identifier
- program_no:256
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101814
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Mightier Than The Sword"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and stars William Johnstone. Features John McIntire, Kenny Delmar, Ted Jewett. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. William Spargo, Clayton Collyer, anncrs. The story of Thomas Nast, creator of our political symbols, and how his cartoon war against Boss Tweed of New York ended with Tweed's ultimate capture and conviction.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902; Tweed, William Marcy, 1823-1878 (Boss Tweed)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:208
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101704
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Mr. Lincoln's Wife"
- Description
- Written by Victor Wolfson and stars Helen Hayes. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Arden Cormwell and conducted by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. The personal story of Mary Todd Lincoln. (Adapted from book of same name.).
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- Local Identifier
- program_no:333
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101815
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "My Fighting Congregation"
- Description
- Written by Sylvia Berger and co-stars Brian Donlevy and Wally Maher. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. Based on a book of the same name, this is the story of William Taggart, fighting chaplain of the 19th Bombardment Group, U.S. Army. Special guest is Brig. Gen.Wm. Arnold, Army Chief of Chaplains.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Taggart, William C.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:387
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101816
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "My Friend McNair"
- Description
- Written by Leonard Spiegelglass and stars Everett Sloane and Jose Ferrer. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees Features Barbara Weeks. Roland Winters, Ted Pearson, announcers. The story of Joe Grogan and what he learned about the Liberty Bell and America while in the service from his friend Andrew McNair.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Liberty bell
- Local Identifier
- program_no:390
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101817
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "My Son John"
- Description
- Written by Phillip Lewis and stars Humphrey Bogart. Features Ralph Moody, Alan Reed Jerry Hausner. Music by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of the USS Seawolf and of the young sailor whom the crew believed to be a jinx because with his arrival, the sub ran into a streak of bad luck.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; USS Seawolf (Submarine)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:451
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101818
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "My Wayward Parent"
- Description
- Written by Phyllis Parker and stars Anne Baxter and Brian Donlevy. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of Irvin S. Cobb, the noted American humorist, as told by his daughter Elizabeth.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944
- Local Identifier
- program_no:429
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101819
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Nacio Brown"
- Description
- Starring Donald Voorhees and the Cavalcade Orchestra. At the conclusion of the broadcast, a report on the American Chemical Society meeting at Rochester, N.Y. 1- "Singing in the Rain" 2- "Pagan Love Song" 3- "The Moon is Low" 4- "Paradise" 5- "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" 6- "New Moon Over My Shoulder" 7- "Temptation" 8- Medley from "Broadway Melody of 1938" 9- Report on Chemical meeting
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Brown, Nacio Herb, 1896-1964
- Local Identifier
- program_no:99
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101616
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Name, Rank, Serial Number"
- Description
- Written by Ben Kagan and stars William Holden. Features members of the Army Air Force (Kent Smith, Arthur Kennedy, John McIntire, others). Host--Walter Huston. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. An adaptation of the AAF training film "Resisting Enemy Interrogation". This is the story of 4 men captured by the Nazis who accidentally divulge bits of information which the German Intelligence puts together and utilizes.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:417
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101820
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Names on the Land"
- Description
- Starring Frank Morgan. Written by Jane and Peter Lyon and. Music composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. A delightful, mythical train tour of American towns, whose names are odd, historical, funny, beautiful or memorable -- but all someone's home town on this first peacetime Christmas in five years.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:459
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101821
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Nancy Hanks"
- Description
- Stars Agnes Moorehead with John McIntyre, Karl Swenson. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Ted Jewett, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. The story of Lincoln's mother.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, 1784-1818
- Local Identifier
- program_no:186
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101682
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Nathan Hale"
- Description
- Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Features the Cavalcade Players (Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "I Have Eyes." The story of the great Revolutionary patriot.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776
- Local Identifier
- program_no:151
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101649
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Native Land"
- Description
- Stars Judith Anderson and Burgess Meredith. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Bud Collyer, anncr. Written by Robert Richards and Robert Tallman. A story showing how the heroism and self-sacrifices of women from the Revolutionary Wars to the present have shaped the affairs of men and the destiny of America.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:246
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101822
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Native Land"
- Description
- Written By Robert Richards and Robert Tallman. Stars Burgess Meredith and Carl Sandsburg. Music composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Don Voorhees. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Clayton Collyer, anncr. The influence of our American heritage on the acts and personalities of the American people, as mirrored through poetry of an American who knows his people of New York City to the Golden Gate.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:245
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101823
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Navy Doctor"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and stars Brian Donlevy. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Carl Frank, announcers. A story of the Navy Medical Corps in action and of the struggle between life and death aboard a doomed US cruiser during the battle of the Solomon Islands.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United States. Navy. Medical Dept.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:360
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101824
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Nellie Was a Lady"
- Description
- Written by Turner Bullock and stars Agnes Moorehead. Music by Robert Ambruster. Features The Sportsmen Quartet. Tom Collins, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of Nellie Bly, first woman start reporter, who made a round-the-world trip in less than 80 days.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922
- Local Identifier
- program_no:445
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101825
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Nine Men Against the Arctic"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and stars Dean Jagger. Narrated by Norman Lloyd, features Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett. Bud Collyer, announcer. The story of the ordeals and rescue of a Flying Fortress crew marooned in the icy waters of Greenland. No close on program.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; B-17 bomber
- Local Identifier
- program_no:342
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101826
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Nurses Under Sealed Orders"
- Description
- Written by Arthur Arent and stars Geraldine Fitzgerald. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, announcer. A story about Army nurses on Bataan.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bataan (Philippines); Nurse--Army
- Local Identifier
- program_no:331
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101827
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "O. Henry"
- Description
- Stars Karl Swenson with script by Norman Rosten. Features John McIntire and Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of William Sydney Porter, the famed short story writer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Porter, William Sydney, 1862-1910
- Local Identifier
- program_no:236
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101729
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Odyssey to Freedom"
- Description
- Written by Isabel Leighton and stars Brian Donlevy. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Bob Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of American-born Edward Kowalski who escaped two Nazi concentration camps, fled across Europe and finally reached the USA and joined the Navy.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:373
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101828
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players including Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, John McIntire, Ray Collins. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "I See Your Face Before Me." Program dramatizes incidents in the life of the great poet, doctor and wit.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:121
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101569
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "On Jordan's Banks"
- Description
- Stars Elliott Reid with Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, John McIntyre, Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Ted Jewett, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Adaptation of a story by Marquis James that dramatizes the adventures of Confederate spy Sam Davis.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Davis, Sam, 1842-1863
- Local Identifier
- program_no:179
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101675
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "One Foot in Heaven"
- Description
- Written by Jean Holloway and stars Frederic March and Florence Eldridge. Features Karl Swenson, John McIntire, Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, anncr. First radio performance of the new Warner Brothers film about a Methodist minister, his family and their small town life. Special guest is Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, advisor for the new film.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; One Foot in Heaven [Motion Picture]; Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993
- Local Identifier
- program_no:251
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101829
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Opportunity"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Parker Fenneley, Ray Collins, Bud Collyer. As an overture, the orchestra offers "Sylvia". Highlights from the life of Benjamin Franklin and publisher H.K.Curtis
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar, 1850-1933
- Local Identifier
- program_no:27
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101593
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Ottmar Mergenthaler"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, others. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Underneath The Stars". Special guest is Martin Good, friend of Mergenthaler. The Story of the inventor of the Linotype.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Mergenthaler, Ottmar, 1854-1899
- Local Identifier
- program_no:111
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101628
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Party Line"
- Description
- Written by Sylvia Berger and stars Agnes Moorehead. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of how the life of a small town in the early part of the century revolved around the party line and was firmly ruled by the chief operator, Miss Elmira.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:440
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101830
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Patrick Henry"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players including Agnes Moorehead, William Johnstone, Ed Jerome, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar. Music by Donald Voorhees. Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. Highlights from the life of the great American Patriot. As an overture, Voorhees offers, "Our Love." Guest is Dr. James Truslow Adams, historical advisor for COA.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799
- Local Identifier
- program_no:161
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101659
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Paul Bunyan"
- Description
- Gabriel Hatter, host. Thomas Chalmers, narrator. Features the Cavalcade Players. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "Parade of Wooden Soldiers." Drama is fanciful radio play about the legendary lumberjack of American folklore.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Bunyan, Paul
- Local Identifier
- program_no:145
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101643
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Penny Fancy"
- Description
- Written by Hubert Chain and stars Claire Trevor. Host--Walter Huston. Features Jon McIntire. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. How 6 American Public Health nurses helped to save England in 1941 from the threat of typhoid epidemic.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Typhoid fever; American Public Health Association.
- Local Identifier
- program_no:419
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101831
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Perserverance"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. John McIntire, Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone. As an overture, the overture, the orchestra offers Nevin's "Venetian Love Song". Story of Elias Howe and the sewing machine, and the intervention of the airplane by the Wright Bros.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Howe, Elias, 1819-1867; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
- Local Identifier
- program_no:23
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101589
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Peter Stuyvesant"
- Description
- Gabriel Hatter, host. Thomas Chalmers, narrator. Features the Cavalcade players (Bill Johnstone, Agnes Moorehead, Karl Swenson, Ray Collins, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "This Can't Be Love." This is the story of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Governor of Dutch New Amsterdam prior to its surrender to the English when it was given its name of New York.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672
- Local Identifier
- program_no:143
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101641
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Pharmacist's Mate. First Class"
- Description
- Written by Stuart Hawkins. Stars Michael O'Shea and Alfred Drake. Features William Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, announcer. Featured guest is Wheeler Lypes on whom tonight's story is based. A story of a little-known job in the Navy-Pharmacist's mate---and how one man saved a life aboard a submarine.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Pharmacist's mate
- Local Identifier
- program_no:332
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101832
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Pioneer American Engineer"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players including Bill Johnstone, Bill Adams, John McInie, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson. Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture Voorhees offer "Deep River". The story of James Eads, bridge builder.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Eads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887
- Local Identifier
- program_no:116
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101633
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Plain Mr. President"
- Description
- The story of George Washington.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Local Identifier
- program_no:214
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101709
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Prologue to Glory"
- Description
- Written by Robert Tallman and Arthur Arent and stars Raymond Massey with Bill Johnstone. Music by Don Voorhees. Produced by Homer Fickett. Bud Collyer, Roland Winters, announcers. An adaptation of the play by E.P. Conkle, telling the story of Lincoln's youth through his unsuccessful senatorial campaign.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Prologue to Glory (Play); Conkle, E. P. (Ellsworth Prouty)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:369
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101833
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Prophet without Honor"
- Description
- The story of the great military strategist of the 20th century, Homer Lea, who was one of the first to predict Japan as a potential menace to the USA.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lea, Homer, 1876-1912
- Local Identifier
- program_no:294
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101834
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Railroad Builders"
- Description
- Part One: 'The Story of the Hoosac Tunnel' and how the great engineering feat was completed--first use of nitroglycerin. Part Two: 'The Central Pacific & Union Pacific' - the story behind the building of the 1st Transcontinental railroad, climaxing with the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promotory.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.); Central Pacific Railroad Company; Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Local Identifier
- program_no:28
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101594
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Recon Pilot"
- Description
- Stars William Holden with Bill Johnstone. Music by Robert Ambruster. Frank Graham, Gayne Whitman, announcers. Based on the AAF training film this is the story of an aerial cameraman and their importance during the war. 7th War Loan plug at conclusion of program.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Aerial cameramen
- Local Identifier
- program_no:437
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101835
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Red Lanterns on St. Michael's"
- Description
- Written by Fran Barnouw and stars William Johnstone. Features Kenny Delmar, John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. Based on the novel of the same name by Thornwell Jacobs, this is the story of Charleston, S.C. and the part it played during the Civil War.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Civil War; Charleston (S.C.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:239
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101732
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Remember the Day"
- Description
- The fictional story of a classroom heroine, one of the true moulders of America, and how she shaped the course of one great destiny. Admiral Dewey Roberts.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Dewey, George, 1837-1917
- Local Identifier
- program_no:279
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101836
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Richard Rodgers"
- Description
- Cavalcade of Music summer series. Starring Conrad Thibault with Donald Voorhees and The Cavalcade Orchestra. 1-"Mountain Greenery" - Orch. 2-"Here In My Arms" - Orch. 3-"My Heart Stood Still" - Thibault 4-"Blue Room" - Orch. 5-"With A Song In My Heart" - Orch. 6-"My Romance" - Thibault 7-"There's A Small Hotel" - Orch. 8-Medley from "Babes In Arms"- Orch and Thibault.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979
- Local Identifier
- program_no:92
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101610
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