 carrying Myrna Loy in Angels on Horseback, an original radio play on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by Dupont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. The Cave Tonight tells the story against the background of a little known but heroic work that has been undertaken by a group with determined and courageous women. They are Dr. Mary Breckenridge's Frontier Nurses, the Angels on Horseback who are bringing modern medicine and education to the isolated mountain communities of southern Kentucky. The story we have chosen for our star is, of course, a love story. As the lovely Jane Eaton, Miss Loy will play the role of a society girl who finds love and a life purpose among the simple primitive folk of Kentucky's hills. Dupont presents Angels on Horseback with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star Myrna Loy on the Cavalcade of America. Leslie County, Kentucky, along a mountain trail that winds slowly downward into a quiet valley, a uniformed nurse and a young doctor ride side by side, taking their time in the descent for their horses who carried them a long way today and a growing weary. Well, George, what do you think of me now? Will I do? You were fine with Mrs. Napier, but you shouldn't have laughed at old man T. Kettle's mumps. It wasn't his mumps, it was his name. Jeremiah T. Kettle, whoever heard of such a name. That's a very old and respected name in these parts. T. Kettle? I don't believe it. You know, I wonder about you, Jane. Are you sure you aren't just doing this work down here for a lock so you'll have some storage to take back to New York? I told you I was never going back, and I meant it, George. What about that fellow you were engaged to, that society doctor? It's all over between me and Elliot. I meant that, too, George. Uh-huh. Why do you say that, like that? Well, in the movies, when a girl crawls with a man she's engaged to and runs away, he usually comes to rescue her. But this isn't the movies. And besides, I didn't run away. I came here because I wanted something Elliot and his kind of life couldn't give me. And what was that? Well, it's hard to explain. A chance to be useful, something like that. Oh, look, we're almost home. This doesn't belong at the center. I wonder who it is. I wonder. Come on, George. Evening, Joe. Evening, Miss Eaton. Evening, Dr. Morgan. Evening, Joe. Who's the visitor? New doctor from out yonder. I think I know that horse. How's that? Come on. We'll find out for sure. The boss lady's inside, Miss Eaton. She's asking for you. Thanks, Joe. They'd give me up for lost. Hello, Dr. Morgan. Hiya, boss lady. Sorry to be so late. Mrs. Stanton surprised us. It was twins. Miss Eaton came for me to help. I hope you can put me up for the night. If you don't mind bunking in with Dr. Jamison. Elliot Jamison? Oh, yes. He's waiting in the other room to see you, Eaton. Oh. Oh, thanks. I better see him right away. I'll type out my report after dinner, doctor. No hurry. So her polo playing knight has ridden out of the north to rescue her. Looks that way. What's he like? About the way you expressed it. Breezy, handsome, English riding boots. The kind of a dude you'd expect Eaton to be rescued by. Now, boss lady, I don't like you to talk like that about Miss Eaton. She's been trying hard to do a good job down here. I don't think any of us are given a half a chance. Well, what's she expect us to do? Hire a rumber band to play at dinner so she'll feel at home? Anyway, I guess the boyfriend will take her on back to New York with him as soon as she's impressed him with her Florence nightingale qualities. Not if I can help it, you won't. Oh. I didn't know it was like that, Dr. Morgan. Well, it is. Just like that. And don't forget it. Here, here. Where are you going? I thought you were going to stay the night. Well, as a full moon, I reckon I can make it over the mountain. I get it. Well, good luck, Doctor. Thanks, boss lady. Good night. Well, well, well. Hmm. Oh, Doctor, did he can get back yet? I wanted to show you this lab report on Mrs. Willis blood sample. That's her patient, isn't it? Yes, you'll find it in the other room. Oh, and tell her I wanted to go the rounds tomorrow with Dr. Morgan. Nothing there seems to agree with you, Jane. You're lovelier than ever. Thanks, Elliot. Now tell me about New York. Who's your new flame? I've talked enough. You tell me. Who's this Dr. Morgan you keep mentioning? Well, he's one of our local doctors, Elliot. He's doing awfully good work over the mountain. And awfully fast work on you? Am I right? Don't be absurd. He's a shy, painfully sincere sort of fellow. He's never addressed a personal remark to me except once. That was today. And did he say, I love you? No. I told him about you. And he said, if it was the movies, you'd be arriving soon to rescue me. Well, you want to be rescued? You can't bury yourself down here in this wilderness forever, you know? I'm not buried. I'm living and seeing life for the first time, Elliot. You don't know what medicine means till you bring it to a place where they never know it? No. That's why I came down here. I wanted to see you, of course, but... But what, Elliot? What would you say if I told you I'm going back to research, Jane? I'd look for your ulterior motive. No, I'm serious, Janey. Maybe I can still get to be a good doctor. I'm going to try anyway. And this place, Lord, what a laboratory. Are you kidding? I don't mean a little lab in the clinic over there. I mean these mountains. Think of it. Thousands of people isolated from the outside world and even from each other. A perfect system of experimental controls all set up and waiting for a bright young man like me to come along and start to work. You've come to the wrong place, Elliot. Why? I can't tell you in words. I'll have to show you. Will you come along tomorrow? Of course. If you hadn't asked me, I'd have gone with you uninvited. Ah, Jane, come on. Relax. Is this any way to welcome your jilted lover? I'm sorry, Elliot. I didn't mean to be ungracious. I'm just tired. Dead tired. Forget everything I said. I should be glad to have you here. We need doctors. We need them desperately. Yes. You do, don't you? Elliot, please. Kiss me goodnight. Just for old time's sake. There. Now let me go. Thanks, awfully. Until the morning, then, my Florence Nightingale? Until the morning. Father, is it, Jane? That's the place just below us. And there's Dr. Morgan. Hey, George! I'm glad we didn't miss you. Dr. Morgan, this is Dr. Jameson. Glad to meet you, Doctor. How do you do? Dr. Jameson is from New York. He's going to stay down here for a while and help us out. Oh. Well, that's nice of him. Come on in. Rest your horses. Thanks, Doctor. I'm glad you come over this way today, Jane. The news just came. There's an epidemic up at the pass. Same trouble as last year. I saw the report of the one last year, but is this one as bad as that one? Worse. Jane, what a stroke of luck. I thought I might have to wait months before this happened. I don't follow you, Doctor. We don't consider an epidemic to be good luck in these parts. George, he doesn't mean it that way. You see, Dr. Jameson is doing research. Well, Dr. Jameson, maybe we better understand each other right now. There's not going to be any research plain or fancy on my patients. We'll just treat as many as we can, the best way we know how, and pray they all get well. But you probably couldn't get around to all of them anyway. We'll just assume we can, Doctor. Do I make myself clear? Look, we're all agreed on the main thing, aren't we? We want to stop the epidemic. People are dying. People are dying all over the world? So what? We can either learn something from this to help the rest of humanity, or we go out, hit or miss, and maybe save the lives of a few hill people. Now, which is the most important? To tell the truth, Elliot, there's only one thing that's important to me right now. And that's doing what we can do right now to help those people up at the pass. All right, then, Jane, that's the way you want it. That's the way it'll be. But I think Dr. Morgan and I are going to have to understand each other a little better before this is over. What do you mean by that, Jameson? Nothing. Just that, Dr. Morgan. You are listening to Angels on Horseback starring Myrna Loy on The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things for better living. Through chemistry. As our play continues, Jane Eaton, played by Myrna Loy, urges her horse up a mountain trail to a cabin that perches on a high ridge, high above Hell for Sarton River in the Kentucky Hills. Medical kit in hand. She dismounts. Raps on the door of the tiny cabin. Who's that? It's Miss Eaton, Mrs. Napier. Thank you, nurse and lady. Thank you, turn on you comb. Is it your least one? Yes. Poor little mind. She's nigh out of her head with a fever. Yes. I see. Miss Eaton? She ain't. No. She's in a coma. You mean a sleep night? She's very ill, Mrs. Napier. I'm afraid I'd better have one of the doctors look at her. One of the doctors? Is there two doctors down at the bow now? One's a friend of mine. He's just visiting. Well, as long as he's a friend of yours, Miss Eaton, my sister and I'll come over an hour since, and she says there's a foreign doctor showed up over there. They drove him clean out of the valley with muskets and good riddance. But that was my friend, Mrs. Napier, Dr. Jameson. They didn't hurt him, did they? Well, I reckon not. My brother's usually a fire in the air when he ain't sarton at your avenue. That's a relief. Look, I'll be back, Mrs. Napier. If I can't find Dr. Morgan, I'll bring my friend. You're right, sarton. He can cure her up on my leash, Tony. I hope so. But she's very ill, Mrs. Napier. It may take several weeks. Well, you go get him. In weeks. Sure. Here's a silver dollar for all your trouble, Miss. Why, you've paid your silver dollar for the year, Mrs. Napier. For hookworm and bellyache and clutching younglings. But not for the fever, Mrs. Napier. Now, go along with her. All right. And see you keep her quiet. She must lie absolutely quiet. And don't give her anything to eat or drink to the doctor, Mrs. Napier. Yes, ma'am. Do just like you say, ma'am. I won't be long, Mrs. Napier. Claim powdery. Eh. Might he find figure of a gal for a further? We used to sneak up on the body. What do you want in these parts? Well, I hear a tail over the mountain there. He was right smart of a feverish misery raging up here. So I come to help out. Well, you ain't no fit in Dr. Claim powdery, and you know it. The nursing gal is going to get a real doctor for my least one. Oh. How quick did she say he could cure her? Maybe two weeks? Just like I thought. Why, for a dollar, I could cure her up in a couple of days. A couple of days? Yes. That's what it said. It went right to this year, T, here. It's got a printed label. Yep. And it says right here in print. It says this, too. Oh, you can't read no more than I can. Oh. Well, you ask anybody that can. Anybody. Ma'am. Ma'am. Oh. Glory Beach is coming, too. I'm coming, child. I'm coming. No, not just yet, honey. The nursing lady's coming back soon. You just try and lay quiet till she comes. Oh. Well, that's again the natural law, Sarah. If the child got a thirst, you'd best let her have some of this tea. Oh. You hush up, Clem. The nursing lady said not to give it so I won't. I reckon one cup of your tea couldn't do her no harm. I knew you'd show some sense, Sarah. Now put on the kettle. We'll cure this young and up in no time. This is the cabin, Elliot. I'll take your kit. Hurry. It's Napier. Mrs. Napier. Oh, Miss Eaton, did I do wrong? Of course you didn't do wrong. You were just confused. And stop crying. She's going to live, Mrs. Napier. I know she is. Elliot had trouble. They thought he was a revenuer. I heard. I was with a little Napier girl and I had to get help quickly. Elliot was here. Oh, you needn't make excuses for calling Dr. Jameson. I think he's a better doctor than I am. No, wait a minute, Morgan. Shut up, Jameson. I'm not talking to you. That was hardly a fair question, George. Well, I'm sorry, Jane. I've had a bad day. That partly fell. A half of my patients wouldn't let me in. He was in the Napier cabin. Elliot threw him out. I'm afraid he'll make trouble, George. You're right. He can make plenty of trouble. What do we do? The first thing to do is to send Dr. Jameson back to New York. The quicker I can get out of here, the better I like it. But I'm taking Jane with me. Elliot, you know I can't leave my work here. Sooner or later you may have to, Janey. This is no place for a civilized human being anyway. George, what do you mean by that, Jameson? Please, let's don't quarrel among ourselves. Elliot, what do you suggest we do? I mean if there's trouble. Morgan, did you say this quack powderly had covered about half your territory? Just about. We keep those patients. Elliot, you don't know what you're saying. Yes, I do. Can't you see? This is the luckiest thing that ever happened. We've got them split 50, 50, 50. Check Clem's results against ours and we've got it. We've got what, Elliot? The thing I came down here to find. It's the situation every research man in medicine has dreamed about. It's not quite as simple as that, Elliot. We worked for a long time to build up the trust of these people and we're not going to lose it now. Not without a struggle. You call it trust when they go over to the first witch doctor the minute there's real trouble? We'll win them back. Besides, there's something so much more important, Elliot. What? Babies. They trust us with them and that's the biggest beginning you can make in medicine. Let me tell you something, Elliot. Before the frontier nurses came here, 40 out of every 100 babies was lost in childbirth. Now we lose one in a thousand. That's as good as your best hospital record in New York. Better than most. For Ginny, I guess. George, do you know who it is? No. I'd better stand away from the door. I'll see who it is. Oh, Dr. Morgan, now you stand to one side. We don't want to harm you. But why is that fur on her hide? You want to see me purdling? Grab him, boys. What's this? A fur on a stick, Lively. Bring him outside. Wait, where are you taking him? Not fur. Not yet, that is. I've brought some of the boys down from the past. They want to have a look at him. Boys? What do you think of it? Bring him up. Now wait a minute. Bring him up. Hey, listen to me for just a moment. Get it. We need to be quiet. And stay quiet and listen to me. You're acting like a bunch of honorary pole cats. You come here screaming about a foreigner beating up on Clem powderly. Well, where's powderly from? Is he a Leslie County man? You can bet your boots he ain't. He's a fur in his cell. All right, go on home. And Clem powderly, don't you stop until you get to the county line. Now, you can't do this to me. Stay fair. Mountain focus, mountain focus. Boys, am I right? You are. Wait. Wait, all of you. Listen to me. You, over there, they're brainy. Who brought your twins into the world before their time and made them live? You did, ma'am. And you, over there, Jim Scrubs, who cured your leased ones up when they were half dead of the hoofworm? You and the other nursing ladies, ma'am. And who gave you the scratches on the arm to ward off the smallpox? You and Dr. Morgan, ma'am. Well, aren't you ashamed of yourself? I'll bet your wife doesn't know what you're up to now, said brainy. Ma'am, I wish you could see your way clear, not tell her. I'll tell her and all the other women, folk. If you don't go home and behave yourselves, are you going or not? Yes, ma'am. We go peaceable, ma'am. All right. Now I'm going back inside. I'm not going to look out here for five minutes. But when I do look, I don't want to see any of you here. Good night, and God bless you all. Good night, Morgan. I'm sorry to have caused you trouble before I cause any more. Shake hands? Sure, doctor. I hope you get what you're looking for. I did. Twice. Both times, I threw it away. I guess there won't be any third time, will there, Jenny? No, Elliot. I'm sorry. But, Elliot, you still have your work to do. And there'll be a time and a place for it sometime. Maybe even here. Okay. Not here. But I know now here's where you'll be happiest. Morgan, take good care of him. I'll do my best. All right. Goodbye, Jenny. Goodbye, Elliot. You're still in love with that fellow, Jane? No, George. Maybe I never really was. In New York, he seemed different. What if you went back to New York? I know now for sure. I never will go back. My place is here, George. Don't you ever get homesick? I mean for the city, the excitement. Excitement? Real excitement is something you feel inside yourself. It's what I felt when the little napier girl began to breathe normally again. But what I feel when I slap a newborn baby that gives out its first big gill telling the world it's alive. You feel that, too? I don't explain it very well, I'm afraid. Oh, but you do. I mean, I've been telling myself I've got to use special words when I talk to you. Not any more, George. Jane, I was thinking if you are going to stay here in the hills, I'll be staying on here in the hills. And if you get lonesome over there, I'll be over here. I mean, will you marry me, Jane? Of course I will. I did. Oh, I'm sorry busting in like this, doctor. My wife, time comes sooner and we look for her. She's punishing something terrible. Well, I'd better ride up there with you, right away. Yes, well, no offense, doctor, but you know how women folks is. Miss Eton, her attendee of four, I hate to ask any lady to go up there this time of night. It's all right, Mr. Rainey. My horse knows every stone on that trail. If you go back to her, Mr. Rainey, I'll ride up with Miss Eton. That's right, good of you, doctor. Thank you. I imagine you're going to see Miss Eton and me riding those trails together quite a lot from now on, Mr. Rainey. Isn't that right, darling? Yes. Mr. Rainey, you see, Dr. Morgan and I are going to be married. Great day in the morning. And you all have better do as I say from now on, but I won't be a foreigner anymore. Good evening, Miss Myrna Lawyer. Thank you, Mr. Collier. It's been a pleasure appearing on Cavalcade tonight in this inspiring story of the work of the Frontier Nursing Service. I understand you've been doing some real-life rehearsal for the role you played tonight in Slawyer. Is that a fact? The reports are greatly exaggerated, I'm afraid. I am an officer of bundles for blue jackets. It keeps me busy in San Pedro three nights a week, but it can hardly be compared to the work being done by the women of the Frontier Nursing Service. Thank you again and good night. Next week, ladies and gentlemen, Cavalcade will present the lovely motion picture star Ingrid Bergman in one of her rare appearances on the radio. The play we have chosen for Miss Bergman is The Silent Heart, and it's based on an unpublished story about Jenny Lin by the distinguished American writer Carl Carmer. Don't forget next Monday Ingrid Bergman in a new radio play called The Silent Heart. Appearing with Miss Loi in tonight's play were William Johnstone as Dr. Jameson and Kenneth Delmar as Dr. Morgan. The orchestra and original musical score were under the direction of Don Voorhees. This is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from Dupont. 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