Cavalcade of America: The Lost Colony

of America, presented by DuPont, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, friends of American men and women who have labored and today labor still with hands and mind and heart to build and to preserve a great free nation.

The Cavalcade of America proudly dedicates the unending story of a new way of life in a new world. Tonight for the first program in the new series of the Cavalcade of America radio plays, we Take our story from the American historical drama, The Lost Colony by the Pulitzer Prize dramatist Paul Green.

Since its first performance on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, July 4, 1937, The Lost Colony has taken a prominent place among the annual dramatic festivals of the nation. Margaret LeWirth has especially written a radio play of The Lost Colony, and the story of a woman in that valiant band of colonists, Eleanor Dair, whose daughter Virginia was the first English child born

in the American colonies. For our star, we turn to Hollywood. She is charming Loretta Young, whose green performances have delighted untold millions. Tonight you will hear her as Eleanor Dair. And from our cavalcade players, you will hear Jeanette Nolan as Queen Elizabeth, John McIntyre as John Borden, Edwin Terro, Mr. Walter Raleigh, Ray Collins as Eleanor's father, Governor White,

and Carl Swenson as Captain Dair. Our orchestra and musical effects are under the direction of Don Voorhees. DuPont, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, present the story of the lost colony on the cavalcade of America.

The hands of time spin back through the centuries. Back to a room in the great manor house of John White in Devon, England, a long time ago. Elizabeth was on England's throne. Yes, Father? Daydreaming at the window again.