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Rabblein Arms
The Campbell Playhouse · March 3, 1940 · 57 min · 9,728 words
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The makers of Campbell's Supe present, the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles, producer. Good evening. This is Orson Welles. We bring you tonight a story by one of America's most successful writers in recent years, Kenneth Roberts. The title, Rabel in Arms, our guest, Miss Francis D., one of the real actresses among Hollywood's younger stars and an old friend of yours in the Campbell
Playhouse. But before rambling arms, here's Ernest Chappell with some new thoughts on an old kitchen custom. Mr. Chappell? Thank you, Wars and Worlds. And ladies and gentlemen, that kitchen custom is an old one, one of the oldest on record. It's the making and the enjoying of vegetable soup.
Certainly, many, many years before cookbooks were ever heard of, women were taking good meet in vegetables and combining them in a hearty substantial soup. And so in offering their vegetable soup, Campbells have always recognized the friendly competition of the home soup kettle.
They've known that time-saving and trouble-saving in themselves, though important, would never alone sell Campbell's vegetable soup to conscientious wives and mothers. They've known that to have Campbell's vegetable soup accepted at the family table year in and year out by good home cooks.
It must compare in fine flavor and good nourishment with the best vegetable soup ever made at home. If you've tried it, then you know that's the kind of vegetable soup Campbell's make. Your first taste tells you they've taken fine beef and simmered it down till the stock is rich and rugged and full-flavored.
And in this beef stock you enjoy the flavor of the fifteen different garden vegetable's Campbell's hues. With a vegetable soup as fine and as wholesome as this waiting at the grocers, it's no wonder that women everywhere have given up making vegetable soup and turned to Campbell's. If you haven't tried it, won't you do so? If you will, I'm convinced that in your home
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