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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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: The Cavalcade of America: "The Great Man Votes"
Description: Written by Peter Lyon. Stars Orson Welles and Ray Collins. Produced and Directed by Homer Fickett. Music composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. John Hiestand, Gayne Whitman, anncrs. An effective demonstration of the power and the sanctity of the great American right to vote. It’s the story of an unsuccessful school teacher who is the sole voter in a vital city precinct. When politicians rush to flatter and console him, he shows that, despite his down-trodden state, he still has the old basic integrity.
Series: Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
Subject: Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Right to Vote
Local Identifier: program_no:257
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101881