Arrowsmith

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in Sinclair Lewis' famous story, Aerosmith. It stars Jean Herschel as Dr. Gutleb, Barbara Britton as Leora, and Gregory Peck as Martin Aerosmith.

The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in Aerosmith. What is it that makes a man into a scientist? Are my friends? That is a big question. Maybe you think it's a laboratory. Test tubes and burners and microscopes and slides.

And maybe it's something else. A light that burns into heart and shines in the eyes. Yes. Yes, like in his eyes. The first time he ever came to see me. Dr. Gottlieb? Well, speak up.

My name's Errol Smith. Errol Smith? Mark Narrow Smith. I'm just starting here in the medical school, and I thought I'd take my bacteriology with you this fall instead of waiting till the second year. If you don't mind.

But I do mind. But I'm not going to be just an ordinary doctor. No. No, sir, I'm going to be a research scientist like you. Oh, not as great as you, of course, but... I mean, I'm not interested in just giving people pills.

I'd rather find a cure for cancer. Something so simple. Well, I... I really mean I... I want to find out things for myself. I know how little I know, I'm not afraid of hard work.

Now you're talking more sensible. Listen, my boy. To be a scientist that is born in a man, and in a very few men. Maybe it's born in you, but go first and be a medical student.

Go learn the names of the Caesars. Go learn to work into this section room without being sick. Go get your MD after your name, then come back to me. Dr. Gottlieb's laboratory, I'm Pharaoh Smith-Toggin.