 Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best Rose wilder lanes let the hurricane roar handling stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors They distinguish novelist Mr. James Hilton Ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton tonight on our hallmark playhouse We present a warm hearted story by Rose wilder Lane called let the hurricane roar You know the story of America is a thousand stories each one of them fascinating because each one is different Yet they all add up to that great and unfinished drama, which is America today In let the hurricane roar Miss Lane gives us a living fragment of it with the Dakotas for her background She tells us of two young people Charles and Caroline Baker age 19 and 17 Who set out from Bag East to find a home in the vast wilderness near the Canadian border? They were very poor, and they had nothing with them, but a few domestic articles in their covered wagon For the part of Caroline We are glad to have that charming and increasingly popular young actress Anne Blythe And now a word from Frank goss before we begin the first act of let the hurricane roar Hallmark is the name to remember when you want to remember your friends for birthdays weddings anniversaries holidays There is a quality about hallmark cards that whispers good taste and you'll send them with pride for that identifying Hallmark on the back adds meaning it says you cared enough to send the very best Now hallmark playhouse presenting rose wilder Lane's let the hurricane roar Starring Anne Blythe when Charles and Caroline arrived to claim their land Overhead a cloud rose from the Northwest It hung across the sky for a time with an ominous feathery undercloud Then like a solid white war the blizzard advanced and the wind began to power a Hurricane cell are already built for us. What luck what luck. Oh darling Why do we have such good fortune? Tell me tell me. Oh Charles This lovely place the land the creek the slum trees All this is ours. Oh, no not so fast if we live here and work the land in five years The government will give us title, but we will we will nothing can stop us nothing and the earth's just crying for wheat Golden wheat, you know, that's nice nice Darling, do you know what wheat will be worth out here at least a dollar a bushel 50 acres Why we'll make at least $2,000 our first year $2,000 Why you only made $200 the whole year you worked for the railroad. I'll never have to work for them again. Never I'll never work for anyone to myself again. Do you doubt me not even for a second But $2,000. Oh, that's only the beginning when we get it could we Could we have a cow a cow will have a herd of cows? Believe me. Horace Greeley knew what he was talking about Caroline we're in the West We're growing up with the greatest country on earth, and we won't be living like this for long. We'll soon build a house Oh a house a white house with green shutters a kitchen and a pantry a dining room two bedrooms Two bedrooms two bedrooms Yes, Charles when spring comes Our baby will be born to spend here. Yeah, you you have so much So much But now you and mr. Spenson are here only a half mile away from us. It won't be so lonesome anymore I'm so happy Caroline is good to see to land is treating you fine. You have such good crop and the new house you will have It will be the same with you and mr. Spenson I know we do not have to beat like you and Charles. We came too late to plan Yeah, we have to be the honeybee Your man has come from town. I would leave now, but soon you will come to visit. Yeah, it's so lonesome very soon. I promise Caroline Caroline good Charles my darling Mrs. Spenson such a fine woman. I feel embarrassed that we have so much and they so little I Want to share all our good fortune with them. Oh, of course. We'll share you silly goose Look in the back of the wagon Caroline All those boxes and the lumber and A brand new mowing machine Oh Charles you went into death. Why not? We're good for it. Aren't we we'll be harvesting wheat this summer You've got real glass for the windows And a doll for the baby Oh, he'll love it. He'll love it And this is for you Charles I've never seen anything so beautiful Lovely brown silk for a lovely lady who'll wear it. Well Oh, thank the lord. I'm gonna be able to take care of you and the baby the way I ought to I've never doubted it Well then twice your size look out as far as you can see Oh, what a sight Two more weeks and we'll cut it down. We're rich Charles. We're rich I'm so happy that even this awful summer heat doesn't bother me from the sky coming from the northwest Passing over the sun who cares just look at the wheat I've never seen anything like this cloud before It's not dark like a thunderhead or or the terrible green sky of a cyclone Why it's beautiful Soft as moonbeams That's funny and it's racing with the speed of the wind What is it? I don't know I I don't know Caroline Charles the beat the beat. What are you trying to say Mrs. Fenton the beat? Good god almighty Oh Charles grasshoppers Grasshoppers They're dropping by the thousands The wheat the wheat we've got to save the wheat they lay every grain of it Fill it up soak blankets fire maybe fire will save it We'll fire the wild grass around the wheat. Maybe maybe they'll avoid the flames The baby he might be needing my place is here beside you Can't keep this up caroline. You've been at it for 24 hours now please. I'm not a baby caroline Caroline the grasshoppers they've broken through my kid. Just say something I guess if there isn't any wheat We'll get along without it We've got along without it so far. How can you stand there and say that? How can you be so? Because our life has only begun begun You know how much money I owe There's only one thing left for me to do You're building the railroad about 15 miles from here I'm gonna work there If I can get a job. No, I've got to So that we'll have money for food and seed I'll be back in a few days All wrong We don't deserve this suffering We trust it and we've been betrayed Oh, it isn't fair It isn't fair Oh Charles Charles, I'm so glad you're home Carolina I can't get a job There isn't a job in the whole country Well, you're here Everybody's looking for work Half the folks at the town site are quitting getting out They've stopped building. They're shutting up the stores At the railroad campus Caroline they're begging They're begging the cook shanties men with families They come along and they have to beg for handouts beg Why don't they live on jackrabbits? There aren't any the jackrabbits have left the country the grasshoppers took everything That hasn't anything to do with us. We aren't going to beg Oh, aren't we I'll let you and the baby star will I no Charles It can never be that bad There's hay for the horses and we have potatoes and this winter you can hunt Stay here. You mean We would have to have flour and meat I can't even hunt. I haven't the powder in the shop and my credit's no good. We'll get along. We always have We love each other. That isn't enough We've got to give up the homestead and get up If we can Maybe I can get work If we get far enough east Give up our homestead Oh, no It's all my fault It's those deads I tell you I'm licked. I've tried everything Lot to stop me at the town site. So I had to pay him for that lumber Trying to get him to take it back and he wouldn't He said if I tried to skip out without pain He'd attach the team and wagon, but they hang horse thieves It's murder leaving a man on foot. He can't do it. Oh, yes, he can There's a law at the town site now Then I went to see Henderson about getting powder in shot. He said he was sorry Sorry I wasn't asking for charity. He wouldn't give me another cent of credit Nothing to live on you and the baby all winter and no seed for next year. We mustn't give up But what else is there to do? Only a defeated man travels east Homeless with a wife and baby All the way Charles you'd know And every man you'd meet would know That you hadn't been strong enough for the west. I don't care. I don't care. You and the baby Why don't you go east just until the winter? How can we make a trip like that and get back in five months? We'll have to travel slow with a baby and we've got to live Somebody'll jump the place as soon as we're gone anyhow Fine place like this All the cloud land Nobody'll jump it while I'm here Carolina You don't mean I'm just as lonesome when you aren't here no matter where you are If you were working on the railroad or in the east I won't leave you I won't ever leave you. I'll be all right to spend since they're here And you'll be back before the winter comes The return to the second act of let the hurricane roar sorry bank What was that you started to tell me about life magazine before the show? Oh, I asked if you'd seen that picture of the remarkable little lady in this week's life It's a picture of grandma moses who was 76 years old when she first started to paint pictures She lived on a farm and she painted what she saw from her window Snow covered hills families arriving in their slays at a little country church Simple everyday scenes many of her paintings today hang in the leading art galleries of the nation For grandma moses has the genius to make us see that everyday life is rich and wonderful And in this week's life magazine you can see grandma moses at work on paintings for hallmark christmas cards Grandma moses has painted especially and exclusively for hallmark cards You'll find these cards and other beautiful christmas cards by foremost hallmark gallery artists Illustrated in this week's life and on display at leading stores So go to the friendly store that features hallmark cards and as to see hallmark grandma moses cards The hallmark on the back will tell your friends you cared enough to send the very best Now here is james hilton with the second act of let the hurricane roar starring and blight Charles had gone east to iowa to look for work times stood still for caroline The days became long and the nights longer and the hole in the ground she called home became ugly and forbidden Then the hot summer passed and it was late september and the icy gusts of wind blew over the stripped prairie And as caroline arrived at the svensons She couldn't help noticing the barren plains for miles and miles and the sod shanties that had been deserted since the grass office came Peter it is caroline Good day caroline. Then will your charles become me? Oh pretty soon by the end of october He wrote and told me and that's not right that he leaves you alone. It's of my own choosing mr. spenson Thus far i've managed to get along. Yeah, but why why you do not go with him? We love our land and no one is going to steal it from us. This country. There's no good Peter The country's all right mr. spenson this country. She feeds nobody. She's like a devil this country To feed you with a spoon now, but you're just the same the grasshoppers they will come again. They're no trees no crops You can't discourage me mr. spenson. I try Just no use and she will not hear caroline We are leaving You're It's time to go over and then to be the little bean the big pig killed I'm afraid I don't understand you the big pig killed a little beef They cannot feed them truth of interest. There's no blossoms for to make honey in this country And we cannot stay if we're not even a bee could live You're giving up For good. Yeah Yeah for good You come along with this. Yeah, we take you to your man. I'm not leaving We've got a stake in our land. We're going to own it in just four more years Oh, can't you see you're not only giving up your land You're giving up a year of your life. Yeah, but let's be used to lose one year We cannot afford another yeah You must not stay by yourself. It's bad enough and we are near but now we go you are alone just fit the baby Good luck. Peter and Anna When you leave will you take me to the town site with you? I'll stay there until charles comes home Mrs. Henderson, yes I thought you might know where my baby and I could stay if I could work Well, goodness knows a little board man. He'd help out. But you see how it is just the one bedroom for the sex office Mrs. Decker, yes, I'm looking for a place to stay. Where's your husband? He went east to work He's coming back by the end of october. I've got to pay for four dollars a week For I couldn't I'd like to work. You'd be eating for two and everything's high. I can't expect to be warm for nothing Good morning, Mrs. Inso. I'm looking for work. Take my advice and get out of this country. It's full of the meanest or envious people Please sheriff, don't you know anyone who can help me? Oh wish you did but it don't Oh, uh letter here for you a letter from charles. I don't know. I don't read other folks as me Thank you. Why don't you read it? I'll read it later when I'm alone Would you give me a ride home? Well, I'll pay you a dollar. That's different. Where's home? A hurricane seller on the prairie 10 miles from any other human being My dear charles I've read and reread your letter Or have faith that your broken leg will soon mend and please Please don't worry about you not being able to come home in october I don't know why I write you my love For there is no way for me to leave the shelter to mail my letters to you But I must write all the same to tell you The time has become meaningless And always there's the ache of incompleteness without you Winter has closed in Blizzard following blizzard Oh, Charles darling I try so hard to be gay But I'm frightened and afraid November is here And a blizzard that is in its seventh days keeping the baby of me in prison Eyes has completely enveloped the dugout I'm burning the furniture to keep the baby warm It is now december We are rationing food What little we have left will soon be gone and then there must be a providence dear charles For outside I see a herd of cattle Frozen stiff but alive I shall kill one for food and bring a cow to our barn Baby and thoughts keep running through my mind What if he gets sick? I'll be still I won't listen Suppose a wolf should If I have a gun why am I frightened myself with these horrible fancy? As I reached the corner of the barn There stood a, it's from my gun and I I didn't have it happened after that charles the dugout and got the gun and shot him Here the townsite the Svensons had gone home and you were here alone How could you do it? Do you suppose I care for anything in the world compared to you? You walked all the way from town Biles in the blizzard What do you think I'd do with you out here? Oh your leg How's your leg? It'll be as good as ever for spring plowing That's there's so many calamities In spite of calamities to have a cow wait to see how big what you've been through You see to plant our wheat field again. Nothing will stop us now Nothing The big white house with the green shutters And the acres of wheat fields The fast-driving teams and swift buggies remembers it all this life and the dugout He'll only think of it as a brief moment To more prosperous Advice about how to choose your Christmas cards Probably no purchase you make is more important for each Christmas card you send represents your taste It represents you to your friends and loved ones your business associates your new acquaintances So for this important purchase go to one of the leading stores in town One you've learned to trust for what is correct and in good taste the friendly store where you choose your hallmark cards Ask to see hallmark grandma moses cards Grandma moses has painted christmas scenes exclusively for hallmark cards There are several ways to buy hallmark grandma moses christmas cards for only one dollar You can get a box of 12 selected cards and in each box Is a large reproduction of one of her paintings suitable for framing Look for the hallmark box with a picture of grandma moses on the cover Or you'll find a wide selection of grandma moses cards from which you can make individual selections If you prefer to have your name imprinted you will also find grandma moses cards in the hallmark gallery artist album I suggest you stop in tomorrow to make sure of getting cards you can send with pride Knowing they'll be shown with pride Hallmark grandma moses cards Now here again is james hilton Thank you and black We were indeed lucky in having you with us tonight giving us such a beautiful portrayal of a courageous pioneering woman It was a great pleasure for me. Mr. Hilton. I have looked forward to my appearance on the hallmark playhouse and my introduction to you Of course, I need no introduction to hallmark card I always find them perfect reminders for all occasions After hearing mr. grass tonight. I'm awfully anxious to see those grandma moses cards And I'm sure you'll find them to be everything the frank said they were Again, thank you for being with us. Thank you, mr. Hilton And I'd like to thank sam edwards for his fine portrayal of charles I hear you're having a doctor's story next week. Yes next week We are proud to present that fine actor edmund gwen in the role of dr. Seracold a really memorable story by helen ashton It tells of a village doctor with a great heart A man who not only attended the physical ills of his patients But offered them his warm philosophy and help in daily living. I hope you'll all be listening Our hallmark playhouse is every thursday. Our director producer is bill gay Our music is composed and conducted by lin marie and our script tonight was adapted by jack rubin Until next thursday then this is james hilton saying good night Look for hallmark cards that are sold only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you Expert and friendly service remember hallmark cards when you carry enough to send the very best And life appeared through the courtesy of universal international pictures and can soon be seen starring with robert comings in free for all a universal international picture This is frank goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when james hilton returns to present dr. Seracold starring edmund gwen and the week following charles coburn and colonel effingham's raid on the hallmark playhouse See the two-page hallmark christmas car announcement in life magazine on sale at your newsstand tomorrow This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system This is k.m. dc kansas city, missouri