 Helen Hayes in the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. But first here is Ted Pearson with some timely information about that astonishing chemical, DDT. This year you can do something about household bugs and pests you've never been able to do before. You can use DDT. These letters, DDT, have come to be a symbol for a remarkable insecticide and today you can buy many reliable products based on this truly astonishing chemical. Two DuPont compositions, 5% DDT spray and 5% DDT dust are among the products now available. When used according to the directions on the labels, they are reliable and safe and will help you rid your home of insects. The spray is for use on surfaces. The dust for use in cracks and hard to get at places. Both give long-lasting protection. Both contain 5% DDT plus pyrethrons for quick acting effect. 5% DDT spray and 5% DDT dust are among the DuPont companies better things for better living through chemistry. The DuPont company presents Helen Hayes as the unsinkable Mrs. Brown on the Cavalcade of America. There's only one person left in that lifeboat, Captain. All right. Ready with that pulley there? Right. The other survivors are all right, Captain. Good. Come on, you, ma'am. What I don't understand is how the Titanic could run into an iceberg. Come on, ma'am. Yes, he got her. Come on, grab her, somebody. Here, let me help you, ma'am. I don't need any help. Hello, everybody. Who are you, ma'am? Fine question to be asking. Have you got any grubber board? Yes, but we want to know who you are. We're making a list of the rescued people. Well, you better put me down as Mrs. Brown. The unsinkable Mrs. Brown. And I guess I am unsinkable. Unsinkable on land and unsinkable on sea. And there's only one way to become unsinkable. That's to live the kind of life that gives you a lot of chances to sink. And one of the best ways I know a start in that kind of life is to run away from home at the age of 15, go to work as a pot walloper in the Colorado mining can. That's what I did. It's a great life being a pot walloper if you're unsinkable. Yes, he comes now. Hey, Molly, you got the dishes washed. Yes, sir. Well, get a move on and tidy up them beds. And Molly. Yes, sir. Wash them a blue shirt and feed them a mule. Yes, sir. Oh, wait a minute, Molly. Yes, sir. Oh, you go. Give me a little kiss. Yes, sir. For you. Hello. And now look, girl, why can't you be nice to me? Because you're the freshest minor in Leadville. Always trying to kiss me. But don't none of the others try to kiss you. Sure they do. But they're gentlemen. Soon as they give them one black eye, they stop trying. Oh, look, you know, ain't gonna bother you none. I like him, Molly. You do? Sure. Oh, my bunk made up. Yes. What are you going to bed for in the middle of the day? I'm low on my mind. You've been low on your mind before, but thought a little red eye always fixed you up. That's why I'm low on my mind. Ain't got no money to buy or die. No? No, lost it in the game last night. That's too bad. Well, ain't no worry of yours, I guess. I got some money you could have. I got 63 cents. Gosh, how far do you think 63 cents ago? It'd carry me through a week or two. I'd galley your young, young and nice. Don't you get fresh now. I ain't gonna get fresh, Molly. But 63 cents, why, girl, I couldn't take that money from you. It ain't money anyhow. Not real money. Not the kind of money a nice girl like you ought to have. No? No. Look, Molly, what would you like more than anything in the world? Culture. Well, money can buy it whatever it is. Culture, huh? What's culture? It's being a lady and having fine silk dresses and perfume and a big house with stone lions on the front lawn and no induks and counts and actors and gentlemen that shave every day. Well, money can buy it. Real money. The kind of money a prospector makes. I don't say, huh? I mean the kind of money a prospector makes when he strikes pay dirt. I'd like to strike pay dirt for you, Molly. Would you? Yeah. I'd build your house with gigas and fancy iron lace work over the front porch and I'd have the fanciest sissy to give you speaking lessons and I'd even shave every day for you. You know, I like you. It's the first time I ever liked you, but I do. That's good, Molly, because you and me are going to be married. I said I liked you, not loved you. That's all right. Marry me for my money. Well, maybe. Maybe I will marry you for your money. Now that we're engaged, do you want to borrow my 63 cents? So I took down a tent I was living in and Ledville Johnny built a little shack and we got married and I found out that the kind of money a prospector makes is the same kind of money a pot walloper makes. Only two of us had to live on it. But there was less beds to make now and less food to cook when there was any. Ledville Johnny was a wonderful husband when he wasn't out with a boy. The only thing that bothered me was I wasn't getting any culture. It didn't look to be much chance to get in any to one day when Ledville Johnny come home. Molly open the door. My hands are full. Ledville Johnny, have you been hitting up that red eye again? No, no, no, Molly, I ain't. Look, see what a bun you look at money. I ain't never seen so much. Well, you got both hands full and I got more, lots more. My pockets are full. I got a tucked inside my waistband. It's coming out of my ears. Five dollar bills, ten dollar bills, hundred dollar bills. I hit it, Molly. I told you I'd hit it. A six foot vein of pure silver. And I sold it. They took me right down to the bank and paid off right on the barrel head. Three hundred thousand dollars, Molly. And it's all yours. Every bit of it. That may be this handful of fives on account I got to celebrate. Johnny, Johnny. Oh, you don't mind if I celebrate with the boys, do you? They're waiting for me up the Saddle Rock Hotel right now to celebrate. Yeah, give me a kiss. That's my Molly. Oh, I'm a lone wolf from Silver Creek. Wait a minute, Johnny. What am I going to do with all this money? I suppose I was wrong. Oh, hide it somewhere. Just hide it, honey. And don't worry about it. I am a lone wolf from Silver Creek. And this is my night to home. Without dropping Johnny. Come on, now. You've got to get Johnny in without weak and Molly. Easy now, Bill. Set him down on the floor. Johnny, sure kind of overdone the celebrate. Hey, you're free to death laying there. It's turning goshawful cool tonight. Well, start a fire in the store. For gosh's sake, be quiet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beepin' like a baby. Good. Well, fire's caught now. She's gonna go good. Come on, Molly's turn. Let's get out of here. Oh, Moses. Yeah, let's get. What's that? What? Johnny, you're here. Smoke, I smell smoke. You stopped the fire, Johnny. That's good. I've been cold. We need a fire. Fire! The stove! Oh, my gosh. I've got to get it. Our money in the stove. Well, I'll be done. Say something, ain't you mad? Mad? No, Molly, I ain't mad. I'll go out and get you some more tomorrow. There's one thing that fella can say for all that money. Sure burned pretty, didn't it? That was led Bill Johnny. $300,000 in flames, and he turned around, went back to sleep. And the next day he went out and darned if he didn't find another mine. Only this one wasn't worth $300,000. This one was worth $25 million. Well, now you can be a lady, Molly. You're gonna have a big house in Denver and culture and speaking lessons and lions in the front lawn, scoped by the finest cemetery sculptor in Denver. Mrs. Molly Brown sincerely invites you to a shin dig at the fine new home of herself and husband. Yours very truly, Mrs. Molly Brown. Mrs. Molly Brown is sorry you was unable to attend the shin dig at her house last Wednesday. So she's given another one next Tuesday. I'm sure you'll want to see my swell house with 70 rooms, especially the ones with solid concrete floors with silver dollars stuck in the cement. I hope you can come this time. Yours very truly, Mrs. Molly Brown. Mrs. Molly Brown is having another shin dig this Saturday, but I'll change the date if you want me to. Please come. Yours very truly, Mrs. Molly Brown. I'm feeling it out mighty sad tonight. Unhappy, ain't you, Molly? You know what I'd do if I wanted to get culture as bad as you do? Uh-oh. I'd go get me something. I'd go to Europe. I'd buy me the finest teachers of, well, whatever it is you want to learn. I'd get me some culture a mile long. Well, of course, that's providing I was you. I don't care about society. All I want to do is sit in the poly with my shoes off. But what you want is culture. All right, then go get your son. Leave tomorrow morning. Go on down to the bank. Whatever's in it, it's all yours. But for crying in the bucket, don't hide your cash in no stove. Johnny. Johnny, darling. You mean it? Uh-huh. Oh, Johnny. Johnny. Is there anything I can do for you? Anywhere I can pay you back. Just give me a kiss, Molly, and I'll be paid in full. You are listening to Helen Hayes as Molly in The Unsinkable, Mrs. Brown on the cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Johnny behind went to England. All those lords and ladies. I made a deal with Lady Donwell. I taught her ladyhood how to ride and shoot and shoot. Well, she was supposed to teach me how to be a lady. And I went to all her parties. Pretty soon I was going to everybody's party. No, darling. No, I shall not go to another function this season. No, I shall not attend an appointment. Molly Brown will show the guests how to operate a last suit. Why didn't you say so? England was easy after it got the hang of it. So was planned. But finally, well, I guess I got home sick. So, Molly, you go back to America without appearing on the stage with me, huh? You will be sorry. I, Sarah Bernard, say so. When it got off the train at home, no reporters were there. My paper wants an exclusive interview, Mrs. Brown. I want to ask you about the nobility, Mrs. Brown. Is it true that you're planning a stage career, Mrs. Brown? How long are you going to be here, Molly? There's so much about your social success abroad. Is it true that you know Sarah Bernard? How are you going to give one of your delightful parties that we remember so well? There'll be a party tonight. Oh, it's the best part of the course. Oh, we've been looking for it. Wait a minute. I'm going to dig tonight in honor of her self and her husband. And many of you she-cats are invited. Just feel a little under the weather, isn't it? So that's why you didn't come to the station. Oh, Johnny, Johnny, let me kiss you. I've been waiting for it, Molly. Johnny, this is wonderful. Let me give you the one-to-one, Molly. Well, this gown's a genuine Parisian, but what's inside of it's still your same old, Molly. Oh, you look great. And I feel great. Back home here talking to you, taking off my coat you're like you take off your shoes. Tell me, Molly, did you get what you wanted? Did you learn to be a lady? Well, I learned what a lady is, Johnny. Yeah? That's right. Being a lady is, well, it's a way of looking at things. It's not the clothes she wears. It's not the opera she goes to. It has nothing to do with the social register or the cash register. Being a lady has got more to do with the way she smiles and the way she holds her head high when she's crumbling inside. And the look in her eyes when she sees someone she loves for the first time and the last time. Being a lady is something a woman can never learn and can never forget. What I want to know is, are you a lady now? I don't know, Johnny. I ain't been tested yet. Tested? That's right. There's a test sometime in every woman's life, and then you can tell if she's a lady. She's a lady if she can face what she has to face, Johnny. She's a lady if she can face it like a man, huh? What a crazy. Oh, but look, Johnny, I've got a present for you. Open it up. What? Say, look at here. A gun. That's an automatic pistol, Johnny. Ain't it a beauty? Just twitch your finger and here she goes. 12 times. What do you know? What do you know? You mean that thing really shoots? What do you think? Pardon me, ma'am. Yes, Marie? There's a gentleman waiting for you, ma'am, but I don't understand what he wants. Relax, Marie. I'll look him over. Pardon, ma'am? A-B-M-A-R-E-E. Dad, give it A-B-N. Thank you, ma'am. Oh, sure, Mighty. Who's that? What's she talking about? It's my maid. And you know what I'm going to tell her, Johnny? No. Pour quoi je ne plus pas avoir de paix, depuis huit ans je ne suis pas ici, pay trois. Well, who does that mean? Shut up. Oh. Well, I'll go see what she wants. I'll be right back. Marie? Ici, madame. And here is the gentleman. How do you do, Mrs. Brown? Tolerable. What can I do for you? Well, I'm the doctor, Mrs. Brown. The doctor? Yes. I didn't want to break in on your reunion with your husband, but I did want to warn you. That will, Johnny, will not live the night out. What? It is heart. You must have no excitement. Oh, what happened? That crazy critter. Come on. Johnny! Oh, just using the shooting eyes. Stop it, your heart. Get the cylinder in it. Johnny, stop! It got the guy's dick. Johnny. Yes, I... don't feel so good, huh? Doctor, can't you do something for him? I... I'm afraid not, Mrs. Brown. Oh. No, I... Yes, Johnny, you put your head here. Thanks for the present, honey. I ain't never had so much fun. The way that she holds her head high, when she's crumbling inside, when she sees someone she loves for the last time. I'd hide it over again, stayed away from home and from Johnny for eight years because I wanted to be a lady. And now I was staying away because Johnny wasn't there anymore. I went back and forth across the ocean and I met an ability and I went to their party, and I didn't know what any of it meant and I didn't care. Then a ship from England on the SS Titanic. And you know what happened to the Titanic. We're in enough lifeboats, so I didn't want to get into one. But some men threw me in, and the waves tossed us and we had a time of it pulling away from the Titanic till we were all alone out there on the dark ocean. We'll never be picked up. How fruitful. We're done for. I'm not gonna roll. There's no sense in it. I'm not gonna roll. I can't stand it. I can't stand it. A bunch of men. You ain't fit for us women to be the opposite sex of. In a minute. Now count us, give me a hand. Where do I lean back? Now. What do you want me to do? Help me off with these petticoats. Grab, hold, and pull. There's four of them. Grab the whole bunch and pull. Right wide. Danny, you wrap this around you. Gee, thanks, Maria. Count us past those round where they'll do the most good. Thank you, Molly. But, Molly, now you'll be cold. You ain't got nothing but that thin coat. Don't you believe it, Danny? I've got a nice warm corset. Here we are, honey. Well, honey, let's pray to be safe. I'm afraid. There's nothing to be afraid of. Our Father. Oh, Mom. Come on now. Our Father. Thy kingdom come. Thy heaven. Danny, of course. That's what we were praying for, isn't it? Oh, yeah! Well, my chin goes up when they say it, and my shoulders go back when I'm happy when they say it, and proud. I'm proud because now I know after all these years of searching that if a woman is unsinkable, she's a lady. Turn to our cavalcade microphone in just a moment. Now, here is Ted Pearson. You can buy garden hose today that weighs half as much as garden hose used to weigh. It coils smoothly and easily because it's more flexible. It has nearly twice the bursting strength of pre-war hose, and it can lie out in a hot sun with little or no drying out or cracking. And it costs no more. If anything, it costs less. One leading merchandising organization advertises, quote, it's the finest hose we've ever sold. We can guarantee it for 10 years, unquote. Two developments of DuPont chemistry make this better hose possible. Cordura, high tenacity rayon, and neoprene rubber. You've heard about the new automobile tires made with rayon cord that are lighter, cooler, and show promise about wearing pre-war tires by many thousands of miles. Well, this new garden hose makes use of the same general type of rayon developed by the DuPont company. Cordura, high tenacity rayon, a very strong, tough fiber with a tensile strength equal to that of steel. And this rayon is so strong, in fact, that only a single braided layer of it's needed in garden hose. Where an average length of old hose weighed 25 pounds, the new weighs 12, and will not burst under 1,000 pounds of water pressure. The attractively colored outside jacket or cover is made of DuPont neoprene. Natural rubber goes to pieces under the action of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight. DuPont neoprene doesn't. You can leave this hose out on the lawn all summer without fear of it's leaking because of sun cracking. And the combination of DuPont rayon and DuPont neoprene also means you'll be able to buy lighter, better, longer lasting hose for other things. Washing machines, for example. An all purpose hose has been developed, too, which safely carries gases, fuel oil and gasoline, hot air from compressors loaded with oil fumes, beer, chemicals, paint, steam, almost anything. Well, anybody would be glad to pay more for a product with all of these improvements, but instead the new hose costs the same or less. Chemical science applied to an old, familiar product, flexible hose, has made it lighter, stronger, easier to handle, and longer lasting. The Cordura rayon and neoprene rubber, of which the new hose is made, are both DuPont, better things for better living through chemistry. And now our star, Helen Hayes. You know, as Hayes, it's been exactly two years minus two days since you last appeared on Cavalcade. Right, what a memory. Oh, that's easy. It's such a pleasure to have you with us. Thank you very much. I certainly enjoyed playing Molly Brown. Tell me, Dwight, what are you doing next Monday? An adaptation of the best-selling book, Storm. Oh, I remember reading it, a wonderful story. Well, we think our show will be, too. We have two stars for it. There'll be Louis Calhoun. He's a fine actor. Yes, and he'll be co-starred with John Beale. Well, Storm should be worth listening to. Well, thanks, Miss Hayes, and please don't wait two years to come back again. I won't, good night, Dwight. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, next week we'll have with us the stars of two of Broadway's leading successes, Louis Calhoun, currently playing in the Magnificent Yankee, and John Beale, now in The Voice of the Turtle. The music for tonight's DuPont Cable Cade was composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Voorhees. The part of Johnny was played by Cameron Prudhomme. Our Cable Cade play was presented by arrangement with Metro Golden Mare, and based on Jean Fowler's story, The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown from the book, Timberline. This is Dwight Wiest inviting you to listen next week to Storm, starring Louis Calhoun and John Beale on The Cable Cade of America, brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.