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Look for that identifying hallmark on the back when you select it. For words to express your feelings and designs to express your good taste, let the hallmark on the back be your guide. For that hallmark tells your friends, you carry enough to send the very best. Live Golden Mayor produces of the technical picture Young Bess, starring Gene Simmons, Stuart Granger, Deborah Carr and Charles Lawton. And now Mr. Barrymore brings you the first act of our hallmark hall of fame. President of the United States, the great Louisiana Territory. Two years later in a New Orleans garden, a young man named Frederick Tudor of Boston promised a girl that he'd come back for soon. He was going to Boston to settle down from globetrotting. He'd make his mark and come back for her the following year. Well, he never came back because the following year, the girl, Eugenie, was dead of yellow fever. In Boston, the winter of 1810, the violet, wintry dusk, two ice skaters warned themselves before a fire. One of the men's Frederick Tudor, the other's his brother, William, the last Eugenie is there too in Frederick's memory forever. Oh, how cold it gets toward evening. Well, evening's the only time we can go skating. Well, that won't be much longer. Yes. Ice is about ready to cut, I suppose. Well, that's life though. You finally get a good surface for skating and somebody cuts it right out from under you. You'll find somebody you'd like to spend your life with. Then Fred, Fred, you've got to stop thinking about Eugenie. Vive le Président Jefferson, she used to say. She gave him the credit for bringing us together. She believed absolutely in the protection of the American flag. The army is shooting off cannons that will surely blow away the fever mist, she wrote in Fred. Look, what's the good of Broody? She died burning with fever and we mutter about the cold burning fever and delirium with artillery for a requiem and we complain of cold. A handful of this snow. This snow to where burning lips would have meant so much to her. Well, Fred, it couldn't save her. Could have given her some comfort. You can't move fever victims north, Fred. Well, maybe we can bring the north to them. Bring the... What do you mean? I don't know. You can't transport snow. Ice, then. Or ice. Well, I don't know. Well, I do, Fred, you can. Now listen, why is there so much illness in the tropics? Maybe because there's no ice to preserve food properly. Remember when we were in Fort of France in Martinique? How warm and pleasant everything tasted. How sick I was from some spoiled food. Oh, wait a minute, Fred. That wasn't yellow fever. I know. But if there were ice in the tropics for good practical reasons, nobody would grudge some ice for the fever too, would they? I see. There was always method in your wildest dreaming, Fred. No. Well, call it a dream if it's a dream to be of some use to the world we live in and call it a dream. I couldn't help you, Janine. No, I couldn't. But perhaps inspired by her, I can help others. I'm not a doctor, a great teacher. I have no particular gifts. How does a man with no particular gifts help others? He gets an idea. Perhaps sentimentally inspired. The whole world may laugh at it. His own brother calls it a dream. In this case, Fred, in this case, your own brother is ready to invest all his savings in your dream. Thank you, Will. You know, I have some money, and I'm sure Father would help. Just think of it well. New England ice all over the world, wherever it's needed. We'll be pioneers. But, uh, where'll we start? Um, what's the matter with Martinique? We've been there. We know people there. They know us? Well, we sent our first cargo of ice to Martinique. Mystic River out of Boston Harbor, wallows in a furious tropical storm. The vessel sluggish in the terrific seas. A hold is loaded with tons of Frederick Tudor's ice. Martinique bound. You may never get that. In Tudor's cabin, the captain of the brig rages bitterly at young Fred. Do something about that ice in the hole before it smashes the innards out of my vessel, Tudor? Before I do something? Exactly what do you expect me to do, Captain? You wreck my vessel with your loony cargo? Did you go to sea for a life of ease or for income and a Gloucesterman's life? I'm no Gloucesterman. I'm in a mood for figures of speech, Captain. I'm in a mood to jettison your accursed ice. By Harry, that's just what I mean to do. Ah, just one minute, Captain. Weird cap size in this sea. Your sloshing ice don't smash the hull to tinder. It'll turn us over. That is a chance we've got to take. That's braver you say, Tudor. But I have my responsibility to my men. You have a greater responsibility to all men. You talk mad. I will not let you jettison that ice. You'll have grave trouble stopping me. Wait! Wait, I tell you! It's turn on my own ship. You won't jettison that cargo. We'll tie it off. Captain, will you just leave the ice in our hull for a while longer? Perhaps the storm is blowing itself out. I wish to lose my vessel. I wish either to lose my fee and your cargo. If I can help it, Mr. Tudor, you will not jettison my cargo. If the weather takes a turn for the worse again, I... Big Mystic River puts in at four to fours. Martinique. Frederick Tudor hurries to Sompierre, the largest hotel in Martinique. There, in the office of Monsieur Gaspard de Lille, Frederick undertakes his first sale of New England ice. Then what will I do with a nautical like-ice, Mr. Dutou? Uh, Tudor, Monsieur de Lille. Tudor. Oh, Turing, your name does not alter my question. Monsieur Gaspard, you are a rich man. Merci. You have birds of cattle and sheep. When grazing is bad, the animals die. They go to utter waste. True? Very true. The misfunctions of weather. What? If you had ice, you could slaughter some of the animals and preserve the meat until it was needed. And leave enough grazing for the rest of the animals? Logica. You can preserve all perishable food with ice, right? In your hotel, you must appreciate the value of that, huh? I can preserve food with these eyes. How do I preserve the ice with other eyes? A matter of a few hours of digging and your men can prepare sellers to store the ice. Tell me, you have ordered this new confectioner... Ice cream? Yes, I have. I could perhaps construct from your eyes ice cream? Well, yes. I will buy all of your ice, Monsieur Dutou. Tudor. Tudor, Tudor. Did you make ice creams? Among other things. Monsieur, have your men dig deep sellers, huh? I'll go back to the ship and arrange to deliver the ice. Like this under this blazing sun, look at it! It's practically gone! And good riddance to it, I said. Grief, it's wrong. It's good for contract. Oh, Captain, you wouldn't understand, but someone will. Send your friend a series of hallmark seven-day cheer cards. 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Just look for the hallmark and crown on the package. There's a symbol that means you carry enough to send the very best. And now Lionel Barrymore brings you the second act of our true story of Frederick Tudor. Broken and despairing, Fred returns to Boston. He and Will are penniless. But by sheer eloquence and drive, he raises some capital again to try again. Not enough capital. He spends more than he raises. The creditors frown suspiciously and close in. In the office of the Boston Banking House, Frederick Tudor faces the hostile creditors grimly. You distrust me, gentlemen. You think I'm either a dreamer or a swindler. I reject both labels. Very well. Reject the labels, as you call them. But accept your responsibilities is all we ask, Mr. Tudor. You call upon me unequivocally to pay up at once. At once or go to jail, sir? I must reject both invitations, gentlemen. Why, this is sheer effrontery and insolence, gentlemen. Now listen to me. Listen to me. When I tell you that I have found a way of packing ice in ordinary sawdust that cuts down melting by 60%. Sir, just... indeed, sir. A chance, gentlemen, to save the ice and to make a good profit from a former waste product and nuisance from your sawmills. Furthermore, I have designed a warehouse, gentlemen, now being built in Havana with hollow walls for the storage of ice for long periods. That's where the money goes. And why not? In Havana, I also have an agent who has interested several customers in buying my ice. Yes, I have the effrontery to have spent your money and far from being humble or entertaining any notions of guilt, I ask you to invest still more money in this project. Worthy of the best instincts in every man of you. You were Silver Town, Mr. Tudor, but... Then accept my words as collateral for further credit, sir. Gentlemen, this fellow is either a monstrous swindler or a prophet. Speaking of you, that Mr. Tudor here is so much in our debt anyhow that a little more can't matter very much. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Another ship's engaged, heavily loaded with ice and cleared for Havana, Cuba. In Havana, Frederick goes to meet his agent, Manuo, and drives head-on into more frustration. Further bitterness of worse chagrin despair. Arrangements are complete, Mr. Tudor. The warehouse finished. Our customer's eager to accept delivery on our cargo. Fine work, Monroe. Capital. There remains only the detail of my compensation. Oh, yes, they agreed upon salary plus a bonus. You deserve a bonus, I think. I think I should have half the profits. I can't begin to pay a 50% commission, you know that. Nevertheless, Mr. Tudor, oh, if I do, I... I can't repay my creditors. I've notes to meet or face action. They won't twice tolerate failure from me. I'll go to jail. If you won't meet my terms, I, um... I must withhold the names of my customers. Well, then I'll find my own customers. While your ice melts in your ship, sawdust packing notwithstanding. It won't melt in my warehouse. And, Mr. Tudor, it isn't exactly your warehouse. What? I've arranged everything in my own name, you see. I counted on you to do the right thing. As I now count on you. And you call that right my sacrificing so much that I'll be ruined? Do you? Take 25%. Sorry. I'll be ruined. Don't you see, if I fail now, I will never get another chance to do what I'm trying to do long ago. Somebody I knew very, very dearly. No, never mind that. I've wanted to bring some ease and comfort to places that have seemed and baked in the heat. To keep food from the corruption and rot that sickens and poisons and destroys. To share the good of half a world with the other half in the simplest and the most elemental way I knew how. Because I have no skills, no gift, no talent. Just don't care. You're dead. You're cold to everything I feel. I just feel I've earned 40% that's all. That's all. I'm very busy, Manuel. What is it? Gabrielle, your little Gabrielle. Well, what about her? The fever borns now like fire. It has been three weeks. I know it's been three weeks. Can't the doctor do something? The doctor sends for the priest. The priest? You'll excuse me. Come, Manuel. I'll see you. Monroe? Wait. I can't stop now to listen to your... Monroe, I don't know that ice is much good for most fevers unless they've run on for a long time, then it's almost the only answer. To the...to the...he wouldn't give me your ice. Why not? Now, after... Why not? What's your price? What isn't a question of price, is it? Isn't it? It's a question of stakes of Gabrielle. Other children, perhaps. Of course you can have ice for Gabrielle. To the...to the...I don't... We...we'd better get to the ship now. Packs of unfamiliar ice, Gabrielle Monroe's seething fever abates. The girl rallies. And two battles are over. Hers and Fredric Uder's. Fleets of ships will carry northern ice across the world for the use of humankind. For the steaming, baking places of earth. For the food makers and the hunger fighters. The future microbe hunters. The health bringers. Ice. It's years before the effects of Fredric Uder's hard-won victory become evident before he received a letter from the surgeon general of Washington, D.C. Which he listens to. Ice closed. His brother William reads. And we find this impressive improvement in health in our warmer states to coincide exactly with the increasing use of ice in those states. Go on, Will. The reduced incidence of disease caused by food spoilage is astonishing. Most gratifying of all, perhaps, is the sharp decline of infant mortality. To these calculable gains must be added the immeasurable benefit brought by advanced medical and pharmacological techniques now made possible in the tropics by the introduction of ice. These conclusions rise from cold fact, but the gratitude of your country comes from the warmest hearts. Very truly yours, et cetera, et cetera. Office of the surgeon general, no less. That's very nice. You ought to feel very satisfied, Fred. You ought... Fred? Fred? Huh? Didn't you hear me? Hear what? Say, where were you just now? Huh? In a garden in New Orleans. With you, Shanie. Long ago. Fully shipped hundreds of thousands of tons of this ice to 53 cities in the United States that had never had ice before. He brought the immense benefits of ice to the tropical world. Ice has contributed greatly in making us the healthiest nation in the world. Frederick Tudor, by his vision and his courage, deeply influenced our whole American way of life. We're going to honor the father of film. Fascinating story. I'll be back to tell you a little about him, but first, here's Frank Goss. He wants to set the stage for a mighty important day that's coming up soon for millions of young people, including very probably some real ones closer than your family. Do you recall the thrill you felt on the day you graduated from high school or college? The sun seemed to shine a little brighter. Friends seemed a little dearer. And the whole wonderful world was waiting for you to conquer it. Yes, graduation day is the day that belongs to youth, a time when all of us want to share in their joys and hopes for the future. Now, even if you can't attend the ceremonies of your young friends this season, there is one wonderful way for you to be with them. Just let a Hallmark graduation card speak for you. At the fine stores where Hallmark cards are sold, you'll find a host of heartwarming styles to choose from. Graduation cards that are exactly right for every boy and girl you know, including those about to enter a chosen profession. Yes, and here's something nice to remember. The Hallmark and Crown on the back of each graduation card you choose will carry an extra measure of happiness, for the familiar Hallmark means you'll carry enough to send the very best. And now here again is Lionel Barrymore. Yes, yes, yes. Well, graduation day is certainly a day to remember and to be remembered. And what a wonderful day it is for the young people and their families, with the regrets for the past that's over, and the hopes and dreams for the future. But you know, I always think of one other group of people, too, on graduation day, and that's our country's wonderful educators and teachers. What a satisfying day it must be for them. When they see those happy and eager youngsters who are confidently off into the future, and each teacher feels inside, I've helped make that boy or girl a little better equipped to face the road ahead. I always remember a remark of Ben Franklin when some young friend of mine's graduating. Ben Franklin once said, if the man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Well, I'll say, before I get into a commencement address, I'd better get back to the next big story on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. We're going to pay tribute to the Reverend Goodwin, who, by his untiring search and discovery, opened new horizons for the photographic arts. I know you won't want to miss that. Our Hallmark Hall of Fame is every Sunday. Our producer-directors, William Gay, our script tonight was written by Milton Geiger. Until next Sunday then, this is Lionel Barry Moore saying good night. For Hallmark Cards that are sold only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service, remember a Hallmark card when you'll carry enough to send the very best. The cast tonight were Lamont Johnson as Frederick Tudor and Woodfield Connor as his brother with Tom Tolle, Ted D'Corsia and Peter Leeds. Every Sunday Hallmark Cards presents two great programs for the whole family's enjoyment. The Hallmark Hall of Fame on radio with host Lionel Barrymore and on television with Miss Sara Churchill. Consult your paper for time and station. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when we present another true-to-life story of actual persons who, in their own way, have contributed to a better world for all of us to live in. Next Sunday we honor Reverend Hamill Goodwin on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This is the CBS Radio Network. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.