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Arrowsmith
The Campbell Playhouse · February 3, 1939 · 58 min · 9,071 words
The transcript of “Arrowsmith”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast February 3, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Campbell Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The makers of Campbell's Loops present, the Campbell Playhouse, Arson Well, producer. Good evening, this is Arson Well. For centuries, the heroes of our popular tales have been killers, outlaws, soldiers, knights in armor, warrior kings.
Only recently, within the memory of most of you who are listening tonight, has the healer become a hero. The man who was skillful in making people whole, instead of cutting them up, the man who strives to persevere life, rather than destroy it.
Tonight's story is one of the first of the recent series of books, plays and films about men of medicine. In 1930, it's author, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, with awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Eight years ago, Aerosmith was made into a motion picture.
The star of that picture was Miss Helen Hayes. She is here tonight to play in the Campbell Playhouse the same role that she created on the screen. It would be an impertence for me to attempt any sort of an introduction.
One of the greatest and most versatile actresses of our time. And I needn't tell you how proud and happy my sponsor and I and all of us in the Campbell Playhouse are in having her with us tonight.
But just now I'd like you to hear a word from Ernest Chapel. I think you'll agree that when women buy far more of one soup than of any other, that soup must have something very special about it.
Such a soup is Campbell's tomato. It has a flavor that good home cooks and professional chef's degree has never been equal. This magic flavor is the result of a recipe perfected by Campbell's chefs and painstakingly followed it every step.
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