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Arrowsmith

Hallmark Playhouse · October 14, 1948 · 30 min · 3,817 words

The transcript of “Arrowsmith”, an episode of Hallmark Playhouse first broadcast October 14, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Hallmark Playhouse plays Hallmark Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Remember a hallmark card when you care enough to send the very best. Tonight from Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark greeting cards bring you Mr. John Lund in Sin Peralius' Aerosmith on the Hallmark way house.

Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors. They distinguish novelist Mr. James Hilton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton.

Tonight we are proud to present a dramatization of a story written by a man who has the unique distinction in American letters of having been judged worthy of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature, Mr. Sinclair Lewis.

And the story we present tonight is, I think, one of his finest, Arro Smith, a story of profound meaning for our times especially. For in Arro Smith, Sinclair Lewis does what I, as a writer, can tell you is no easy task.

He portrays and as well as it has ever been done what goes on in the mind of the scientists. And you who read today's newspapers will not need to be told how crucially important this problem is for the world nowadays.

To highlight our dramatization of this great story we have the privilege also of presenting one of Hollywood's newest and most exciting personalities John Lund. And now before the curtain here is Frank Garst with a brief message from Hallmark.

There are hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar. Yes, for every occasion that calls for remembrance, there is a hallmark card that says just what you want to say, the way you want to say it.

And that identifying name on the back. Hallmark. Well, that says you cared enough to send the very best. Now, our curtain. Hallmark Playhouse, starring John Lund and Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. I sat alone alone in that house that made one pool of light in the Tropic darkness Listening to the soft venom whisper of the jungle as it coiled itself around the house

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