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Destination Freedom · March 6, 1949 · 28 min · 4,112 words
The transcript of “Do Something! Be Somebody!”, an episode of Destination Freedom first broadcast March 6, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Destination Freedom plays Destination Freedom free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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All the world's esteem. And I was destined to play rules I never dreamed I'd live through. Destination Freedom. Destination Freedom. Dramatization of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people is brought to you by station WMAQ as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own destination, freedom.
Outstanding among many extraordinary actors who have contributed to the rich heritage of the American stage is one Leonard Viennell Cornelius Canagata, Canada Lee, whose story destination freedom tells in a chapter entitled Do Something, Be Somebody.
The Wounds of Stage. And the great director first cast me as Leonard Viennell Cornelius Canagata, the only son of a West Indian shipper who had trained his son to become a violin virtuoso. Character, restless, shifting, place and time in New York, 1921.
Seeing the kind of got a home situation, then it would just ask his father for a strange favor. Take you out of the race tracks. For what? It's just that I've never seen a race and I've heard so much about it.
From that roughing Andy you picked up with. It's not Andy. Then what is it that makes a boy on the eve of an important classical concert think of jockeys? What's gotten into? Now don't be scolding him, but nine years you've made him give up everything young boys like just to practice the violin.
And hasn't it been worth it? Look where he is today. That's why I see you can afford to take him out to Jamaica. Just be sure to get him back in plenty of time for the concert this evening.
Very well. Come along. I saw a stage different from any of which I played. At the sight of gay costumes in the branch of the horses, I felt my nerves quiver as my father spoke his lines.
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