 Remember a hallmark card when you care enough to send the very best Tonight from Hollywood the makers of hallmark greeting cards bring you mr. John Lund in Sinclair Lewis's arrow Smith on the hallmark playhouse Each week hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors They distinguished novelist mr. James Hilton Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton Tonight we are proud to present a dramatization of a story written by a man who has the unique distinction in American letters of Having been judged worthy of both the Pulitzer prize and the Nobel Prize for literature. Mr. Sinclair Lewis and The story we present tonight is I think one of his finest arrow Smith a story of profound meaning for our times especially For an arrow Smith Sinclair Lewis does what I as a writer can tell you is no easy task He portrays and as well as it has ever been done what goes on in the mind of the scientist and You who read today's newspapers will not need to be told how crucially important this problem is for the world nowadays To highlight our dramatization of this great story We have the privilege also of presenting one of Hollywood's newest and most exciting personalities John Lund and Now before the curtain here is Frank goss with a brief message from hallmark There are hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar Yes, for every occasion that calls for remembrance There is a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say it And that identifying name on the back hallmark. Well, that says you cared enough to send the very best now our curtain Hallmark playhouse starring John Lund in Sinclair Lewis's arrow Smith In that house that made one pool of light in the tropic darkness Listening to the soft venom whisper of the jungle as it coiled itself around the house I sat there thinking who am I? What am I doing here? Where am I going? Where have I been? Where have I been? And the voices of the past began to sift through Martin arrow Smith freshman eager newly hatched beginning of science Technique is the beginning of science Technique is the beginning of science Professor max Gottlieb a voice softly blurred with the culture of another country a man who could inspire And could crucify at 21. I entered his classroom Practice medicine out of Smith. Oh no, sir. I'd like to work in research. I'd like to be a bacteriologist Good after these past few weeks. I do not think you would make a good doctor But to research that is another matter and it is the important field make no mistake about it Research is the advancing line that moves ahead of the doctors that makes their work possible These of those years were a whirlwind lectures on physical diagnosis surgery neurology obstetrics hospital demonstrations pathology scientific german scientific french Exploration of the past and of the possibilities of the future Professor Gottlieb Something's wrong with these immunology theories. What do you mean something is wrong young man Do you set yourself up against science? Do you feel competent to attack the dogmas of immunology? I'm I'm sorry, sir. Here are my protocols. I've gone over and over the stuff and I get the same results I only know what I observe my boy That is the way observe what you observe And if it does not agree with a nice correct views of science, then out they go I'm very pleased martin, but now find out the why the underneath principle. All right. I will martin I've been thinking would you care to be my laboratory assistant next term? Oh professor godly, but oh, I well then we shall consider it all settled Those were the days when I plunged headlong into every experiment and every experience that came along Those were the days when I was engaged to madeline fox and her mother Those were the days when I met liora Professor godly but sent me on an errand at the hospital And there was this small probation and nurse scrubbing the floor as I turned the wrong corner and skidded Hey watch out you almost stepped in my scrub bucket. You almost made me break my neck Why don't you watch where you put your scrub buckets the scrub bucket has to be where I'm scrubbing You can walk any place you want. I have to scrub where I'm told to scrub I'm being punished by the superintendent of nurses. She's showing me the importance of discipline Oh, oh I see Uh pretty hard this training for nurses. I guess Well, it's about as romantic as being a hired girl in dakota. You come from dakota I sure do wheat slovenia north dakota You're from the university medic school, aren't you? Yeah, but uh, I'm not really much of a medic I'm going to be a bacteriologist Gee, that's wonderful Would you like to have dinner with me tonight? I'd love to seven. I'll be ready. See you then Hey, what's your name liara tozer? What's yours? martin narrowsmith Hello martin narrowsmith Hello liara Oh gosh, you're all dressed to be in a bed at all now Find a companionable roommate you turn out to be I don't know why you bother coming home from the lab at all You know someday you're gonna be sorry. You ever got tangled up with a microbe What do you do when you're engaged to two of them at once? Oh martin Hey kid. Look, you better lie down Well, I guess the only thing to do is Get them both together. Let them work it out. Oh Madeline liara. Oh, no, now he's giving him names. Look martin lie down. Let me get a doctor doctor Who wants a doctor? I'm not sick. I'm scared. I'm engaged to two girls at once Miss fox. This is miss tozer. How do you do? I uh, I invited you both to lunch because uh, I thought that uh, you too should get acquainted Dr. Arrowsmith tells me you're a nurse miss tozer Yes, sort of Do you find it interesting? Oh, yes. Yes. I think it's interesting Do you come from here miss tozer? No, I come from Um, just a little town Well hardly a town it's in north dakota. Oh Way out west I don't believe we know anyone else from north dakota. Do we martin? No, I suppose I don't think so Where are you from miss? Wolf box. Oh, I I'm so sorry miss fox. I have such a bad memory for names. Where are you from? I'm from here right here Oh, we know lots of people from here. Don't we martin? Oh, yes. Yes Lots of people yes Oh, what would you girls like to eat? Oh, you order for me martin. You know just what I like you order for me too martin You know what I like to Look madeline liora. I uh, don't know how you two feel about each other, but well, uh, I uh, brought you two together because Well by some strange coincidence I'm engaged to both of you and I didn't know what to do except come out and engage to Both of us. I'm sorry for you miss totem tozer tozer You poor child. You do have a job ahead of you Goodbye martin Looks as though you're mine by default Oh I'm sorry, but I couldn't think of any other way Martin you better not getting any more messes like this because I'll never give you up I'm going to cook for you and so for you And wait for you to come home at night And someday the world's going to discover that you're the greatest scientist in it I'm very much in love with you mr. Aerosmith Hello, mrs. Aerosmith Complete days Planning a wedding planning a lifetime I was late class was already in session godly sent me on an errand immediately Aerosmith what have you brought me here? What do you ask for six female rabbits? I asked for six male rabbits Oh, uh, I'll go back right away. I'm sorry. You're sorry. You're sorry And what do I do with this class while I wait for you to go and return? I'm sorry, but I didn't understand you I made a mistake mistakes in science mean lives You're a nimble sir. You've been moaning around for weeks acting like a schoolboy fit for nothing What good is an assistant who can't even bring me what I require get out You You mean I'm fired as assistant. I'm glad you have enough intelligence to understand that Well, well, that's all right with me For now and forever so long as we both should live I took her hand in mine and turned off the road. I had been traveling I decided to practice medicine after all doctors were more necessary than scientists Why should I spend my life cooped up in a lab? I'd go out to Leora's part of the country and practice. I'd save lives I'd be martin l. Arrowsmith md of wheat savannah north dakota And so I graduated and began the days of my practice Hello, is dr. Arrowsmith there this is mr. Willoughby my left girl has a stomach ache Arrowsmith this is water lamb. I've hurt my hand. I'd like to come in and have you look at it Kind of a doctor. Do you think you are? Personally, I don't think much of you You don't Why not Well, you haven't said a word about me drinking lots of milk and orange juice or Being careful about lifting things milk orange juice Lifting things leora in six months, darling six months Oh, I don't know how I'll ever be able to wait six months Why mrs. Arrowsmith Wow Wow Say let's have a boy. Shall we that's exactly what I ordered one small boy made in the image and likeness of martin arrowsmith Six months of waiting of watching of worrying of praying Six months of illness for leora Six months of growing swelling pain of terror torture agony There won't ever be another baby no never another darling darling I could only help Well, if I can't have a real baby, I'll just have to bring you up I'll help you be a great man like your professor godly Did Did you say godly leora? Yes. I said godly I know you've never forgotten him martin for hours. 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They're beautiful dolls You bet they are luana every youngster loves them the verses the feather plumes and their hats and the way they stand up by themselves A little later i'm going to tell everyone how little the hallmark dolls of the nations cost and how easy they are to buy and send But now back to james helton We continue with part two of sinclair lewis's arosmith starring john lund Years of labor with the memory of max god leave always somewhere behind my shoulder And the memory of his words always sounding within me I was a doctor. I was a health officer Finally one day I submitted a paper Which was published in the journal of infectious diseases And shortly thereafter I received a letter from god leave Telling me that he was now at the magirk institute in new york and inviting me to come there and continue my research And so at last I went back to him Martin and dr. Tubbs ahead of the magirk institute believes that you may have hit on the supreme way to kill the pathogenic bacteria Well, I'm not certain of that sir dr. Tubbs thinks that yours may be one of the discoveries of a generation a serum to eradicate plague He wants to publish your discovery. I'm not ready to have my notes published I want to prove them first. I'm glad to hear you say that my boy. It's the only way Prove it beyond all shadow of a doubt before you present it to the world Now I have a plan for you There is a plague right now in st. Hubert and the west indies If you would go there Inject one group of patients with the serum of yours and take another group Oh, I see what you mean treat the other group just as you would normally and watch the results It is a great opportunity. You could make an absolute Determination of the value of your discovery. I'll go. I'll do it. I have a friend also a scientist and doctor whom I'll send with you Sandelius. Oh, I've heard of him. He's a good man Martin I warn you You must harden your heart You must give the serum to one group And keep your eyes fastened on your ultimate goal, which is to end all plagues forever Yes, sir God go with you and guide you Bring you back a tramp steamer a black starless midnight st. Hubert the port of death Passengers were permitted to land on the island, but once there none could leave the island until the quarantine was lifted Leora and Sandelius and I stood on deck watching the launch made fast. It was to take us in the shore It's a strange ghostly sort of night, isn't it? I'm so excited. I'm scared to death. Leora, please stay on the boat I can't imagine what I was thinking of to let you talk me into your coming out here You didn't have a thing to say about it Why wouldn't dream of letting you go off to a plague all by yourself? We'll take care of you if you got sick It would be wiser if you stayed on board Leora go back with the ship You'll see you in new york in a few weeks not on your life Well The launch is ready martin The bags and their boxes of medical supplies are already on board. Well, what are we waiting for? Come on There's a drum again on those drums Sorry you came No, I didn't mean Where's Sandelius? He's over at the hospital making the rounds again How many cases Among the group we inoculated with the serum one How about the other half of the parish Among the ones who weren't inoculated 30 30 Well, that proves the serum works not yet. It's only the beginning We have to watch day by day until the epidemic's over It's too bad. You can't give it to everyone that would ruin the experiment I know but if you can save people's lives, we might save a few lives We wouldn't prove anything Even if a few die now their dying may mean that millions will live in the future That adds up for you, doesn't it? Of course. That's what we came for Yes All the same it's darn hard to say no when they beg for the serum No one wants to die darling Not you or I Or any of them Never forget her face that day or her eyes Or those words that came back to me over and over as I sat by her helpless No one wants to die Not you nor I Or any of them wants to die Not you or I Or any of them wants to die Not you or I you must pull yourself together Why She's dead, isn't she? Yes. She's dead. All finished and done with one lifetime One young lovely lifetime Finished done buried Waste waste I'm going to give that serum to everyone on the island As long as it holds out. I'm giving it to everyone on the island. You'll spoil the experiment You will undo everything you have done. I don't care if someone lives if one person lives I'm not going to sit here any longer controlling the forces of death and life. I'm through with experimentation. I'm through with science I only know that at last I sat there alone Alone in the house Alone in the world spent Worn out from labor and from grief And the knowledge that I failed myself failed godly failed science I sat there thinking who am I? Where am I going? Where have I been? What is there for me now that I've lost liora? And then the door opened Martin Yes, the ships are in the harbor. The quarantine is lifted The epidemic is over. Is it? Yes, and I've got a letter here from godly What does he say he says you must come home and prepare to start your experiment over I must Prepare to start he says it must be completed properly and so it must I will help and so will he now come it won't take us long to pack the ship sails this afternoon And suddenly I was on my feet throwing things into suitcases On my way back to the beginning to start the experiment over And over and over in my heart. I was saying the prayer I'd learned from godly God give me unclouded eyes and freedom from haste God give me a quiet and relentless anger against all pretense and all pretentious work and all work left slack and unfinished God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise Until my observed results equal my calculated results or in pious plea. I discover and assault my error God give me strength Give me strength. 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Parkington by louis brumfield and starring rosselin russell Oh, I'll be listening mr. Hilton. Good night, John Lund Ladies and gentlemen, the community chest campaign is your opportunity to make one contribution to all your local agencies health welfare and recreation Nearly half the families in every community chest city benefit directly through red feather aid So please support the community chest everybody benefits. Everybody gives Until next thursday, then this is james hilton saying good night Tonight's story was adapted for radio by gene holloway with music composed and conducted by lin murray Our director producer is d engelback. 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