 William Bendix in meat-hardy green groin on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. But first here is Gaine Whitman. It's time to clean out the cooling system of your car and get it ready for summer driving. To do that job right, first, drain out the antifreeze, then clean out the rust and scum with DuPont Cooling System Cleanser. It dissolves rust chemically and cleans thoroughly without harming the hose or metal parts. Third, fill the radiator with fresh water and add DuPont Acid and Rust Inhibitor that will keep the radiator free from rust all season. And fourth, add DuPont Cooling System Sealer to prevent leaks in the radiator and hose connections. It will not take long to do this, but it will help you avoid overheating and sluggish engine performance. Your summer driving will be far more pleasant because of these DuPont radiator products. Examples of better things for better living through chemistry. The DuPont Company presents William Bendix in Meet Artie Greengroin on The Cavalcade of America. My name is Artie Greengroin, Private First Class. I was dreamed up by an old rummy named Harry Brown. He told all about me in Yank, the Army Weekly, and pretty soon a million GIs were sticking their nose in my private affairs. Stick around, you old rummies. I'll be back later. This is the story of Private First Class, Artie Greengroin. Artie never lived, but his roots went deep, and the GIs in the European Theater of Operations understood him and approved. For those a million who knew him, we bring back an old friend. And for those who didn't know him, we say, Meet Artie Greengroin, Private First Class. Hey, Greengroin. Ah! Ah! Hiya, Charlie, your rummy. Hiya, Greengroin. How's every little thing, eh? Serrupo. Eh, what's the matter? Don't you like England? Eh, sir, right, I guess. But English. They don't know any better. Me, I wish I was back in Brooklyn. Eh, me too. Yeah. Come on, Charlie, old boy. I gotta stop in a supply, Sergeant. All right. Hiya, Sergeant, your rummy. Well, well, well. Private First Class, Greengroin, I presume. Yeah, Sergeant, I've got a pair of old porn pants here. Uh-huh. And you're playing the tailor-made for a new pair, right? Babe. Nothing doing. What do you mean, nothing doing? Always you rummies are coming here, you want something big. You don't want a pair of socks. You don't want a handkerchief. No. Don't always something big. Greedy. That's what you are. Let me see them pants. Here. Hmm. These pants is torn. Well, that's what I said. And not only is they torn, but they got spots on them. Millions of spots. You're a dirty thing, Greengroin. Well, that's beside the purse. And this is a dirty army. I don't want them pants, Greengroin. Take them away. Burn them. But I need a new pair of pants. I got a date. You don't want to see me a sloppy soldier, do you? I just don't want to see you, Greengroin, period. Besides, them pants is torn. I'd come by that torn honestly, Sarge. I was saving somebody's life. Saving somebody's life? Yeah. What's the matter, you crazy? What's the idea of saving somebody's life of your best uniform? What's that? Come on, feed it, feed it, feed it. Just try it on Milkduck's government. Okay. But denying me a pair of pants when I got a date is the height of Patrick, you're familiar, at Demonstratum. Which is French for you're losin' me up. Come on, Charlie. Uh, Artie, what's all this about a date? Charlie, she's my dream girl. I'm a lower soul, that's what I am. Gee, Artie, I ain't never seen you look like this before, not even in Brooklyn. Charlie, old pal, you oughta see them eyes she's got. Yeah? They're blinding. Mind you, I ain't sayin' she's perfect. No, not entirely. She don't speak English too good. More the way them English speak it. But she learned, Charlie. Yeah, Artie? I'm gonna marry Gwendolyn. You are? Yeah. I thought you was in love with this, uh, English name. Well, that's it, that's her name, Gwendolyn. Gwendolyn Forteskin. Gwendolyn? Yeah. Come on in the orderly room, I got business here. Sit down, Charlie. Where's the top? I don't know, I'm further and more, I don't care. In exactly six minutes, Gwendolyn is gonna give me a phone on this phone and tell me where we're gonna meet tonight. Yeah, in exactly one minute, the top sergeant is comin' in here and kick you off his desk. Don't talk to me about this guy, Glump. You know him, Charlie? Oh, I hide of him. He's tough, huh? He's gonna eat me content. That's what he is. One of these days don't fix him, Doremi. Who is this? You're gonna fix Green Grain? Oh, well, hello there, Sarge, old boy. Sarge, meet me pal from Brooklyn, Charlie, do I ask? Pleased to meet you, Sarge. It ain't mutual. Any friend of this crumb is no friend of mine. Green Grain, get your crummy feet off of my desk. Get up, open that chair. Get your whole crummy cockasitis here, office. Now, Sarge, is that a way to talk to one of your own nun-comes? If you want to pass, but tonight, forget it. Tonight, everybody has got to stay in and change their buttons. It ain't a little crock, so it is. Oh, no, Sarge. Oh, yes, Green Grain, you rummy. Look, Sarge, there's a girl gonna call me on your telephone. Oh. Oh, a doll, huh? Well, of course, now, that's different. Never let it be said that I stood in the way of true love. Eh, what's she like, Green Grain, old man? Sarge, old man. Sarge, she is divine. What eyes. And she comes in and goes out in all the most interesting places. Yeah, don't say. Yeah. Hey, I tell you what, Green Grain, old man, I got me orders not to wish you no passes tonight, because everybody's got to polish their buttons. But that can be got around. Tell me how, Sarge, and I will be your slave. Well, let's see now. If you wish to polish your buttons now. I get it, Sarge, I get it. They didn't have it done, and I could give you as a pass for tonight. Sargeant, from this moment onward, I am yours. But, uh, what about my phone call? I'll take care of it for you. I'll find out the time and the place. Now, eh, run along like a little man. Sargeant, I have never understood you until now. Oh, Green Grain, old man, it's nothing. Go on now and polish your buttons. If an enemy bullet was to cut you at me career, this is what I would have carved on me tombstones. He was proud to be a nun come under Sargeant Glump. Let's go, Charlie. They did it, eh, Sargeant Glump. Sargeant Glump's begin. Who? Eh, private face glass, Green Grain ain't here. And, uh, who is this speaking pray? Oh, Miss Fortescue, huh? Well, uh, yeah, yeah, he left a message. Wait a minute, I'll read it to you. Dear Miss Fortescue, the wonderful man you are now speaking to is my best friend, Sargeant Harold Glump. Since I am unfortunately detained in the guardhouse, why do not you and him get together at some quiet little place? Yeah, yeah, that's what it says. 830? Eh, eh, would you kindly repeat that address? Thank you. I will be there. That's Green Grain reporting, Captain. Very interesting. What are you reporting for? I'm reporting that I can't locate Sargeant Glump, sir. Sargeant's off duty tonight. Went up to London. Well, didn't he leave me no pass? Well, what about my message from Gwendolyn? I don't see anything. You can look on his desk if you like. Oh, much obliged, Captain. Hey, what's this? I-I mean, sir. What's what, Green Grain? What's Gwendolyn's address doing here? What's my girl's address doing on this Romney's desk? Well, now I... Captain, you can throw me in a break. You can give me Kate pay for the duration. But I've got to get to London tonight. I've got to save me Fiancée from a price-wasting debt. Is she really off, you want to say, Green Grain? Not only that, but we're engaged. Very well, Green Grain. I'll give you a pass. Yeah, it's me, Miss Fortescue. Odie Greengroin, PFC, and just in a nick of time, I'll bet. How would I thought you? Is he changed? I'll come in without you. Yeah, thanks. Are you all right? I'm very well, thank you. I've got a surprise for you. Your best friend is here. Hiya, Green Grain. He ain't my best friend, and it ain't no surprise. I was just telling Quinny here how you had to stay in tonight to polish your buttons. I was also telling her how a private face class can be put in the brig for life for going AWOL. Why don't you ask to see my pass, you brig elephant? I wouldn't think of it. Not when I'm off duty like this. You, uh, got one, I hope. I, uh, got one. Oh. Mr. Gloppe's just been telling me about his medals. No, no, Quinny, okay. Oh, his medals, eh? Well, that's very interesting. Pray continue, Sergeant D. Hey, it's getting kind of late. Maybe I... Come on, Sarge, don't be so modest. Tell me and I'll tell all the other Joes at the base. Come on. And yes, I better be going. Oh, you know, Mr. Gloppe was at Pearl Harbor when the Jacks came over. He told me all about it. He brought down seven Jack planes. You don't say. Nice. Nice going, Grumpy, old boy. I must remember to tell that one to the boys. I forgot just how he got the depth of the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nike Cross. Mr. Gloppe got that, too, when he led a platoon of Marines at Waddell Canal. When would you dare last, Sarge, before the war? The last I heard on a day at Pearl Harbor, you was delivering milk in Tracy City. If he won them, I'll eat them, dehydrated. Now, Miss Fortescue, I can explain. Please, don't bother, Mr. Gloppe. Oh, thank you to leave this house at once. Bye-bye, Grumpy, old pal. Green Grain, I'll see you back at the base. Good night, Miss Fortescue. One moment, Mr. Glumppe. You have kindly saluted your superior officer. And? Now, now, 20-year-old girls. How's that make, Mr. Sarge? Are you insane? Mr. Glumppe, you're a sergeant, aren't you? That's right. Now, Grumpy, you're dirt. Here's the one. Then salute him. He's your superior officer, isn't he? This wine, my superior officer? Did he tell you that? Sarge, old pal, on second thought, maybe I and you ought to leave. Wait a minute. Let go of me. Miss Fortescue, that is no good, Grumpy. Tell you that he is mine. He is mine. What yet? He told me that in the American Army, a private first class is vise under a brigadier general. Maybe I was exaggerating a little. That is Miss Fortescue. I can explain everything. Private first class, screen time. Okay, okay. I'm going. I know how to take a hint. You're looking at a man with one foot in a guard house. What you gonna do, Artie? I'm gonna get even with Sarge and Glumppe. On account of him, I ain't got no more fancy. Revenge, that's what me soul cries out for. You mean Gwendolyn? I mean Gwendolyn. She... give me the bum's rush, Charlie. Oh, what you gonna do, Artie? Well, I've done a little detective work, see? I found out that every night from 10.30 to 11, top Sarge and Glumppe is in the orderly room, doing some work. And during that time, the secret files is left open. Artie! Artie, you ain't gonna sell our plans to the enemy. What enemy? I've been in the Army two years. I've even seen an enemy. Now at 11 o'clock every night, the Captain goes into the orderly room to check up, yeah? 10.30 to 11. That's the witch an hour. That's what I'm gonna do me dirty deeds. Tonight, green groin rides again. We're listening to William Bendix in Meet Artie Green Groin on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company. Maker of better things for better living through chemistry. As our second act opens, Sarge and Glumppe is alone in the orderly room. It is 10.45 at night. The company's street is dark and deserted. The setting is perfect for our hero Artie Green Groin's insidious plot. Suddenly, a wild yelling disturbs the stillness. Yo-ho! Sarge and Glumppe! Sarge and Glumppe is a joke! Sarge and Glumppe is an intimate chatter! Sarge and Glumppe would have been away after ya! Come on out and see ya, Rummy, I challenge ya! Why, you dirty old... I'm coming, and you better not be there when I get there! There he goes, running around in a dock. Now I just sneak in. Ah, here we are. Gotta wait quick now. Where's them files? Ah, here. Mmm, confidential. No good. Secret. No good. Ah, here we are. Top secret. That says stuff. All over the floor! All over the paper! Shut some outside the door! That's fine, that'll take him. Wait a minute. Where's all the paper? Paper, yeah. Oh, here it is. Now, what'll I write? I know. Colonel O'Clock is a stinker. First class. Signed Sergeant Glumppe. That'll fix him, dirty Rummy. Oh, somebody's coming. I gotta beat it now. Here I go. Out through the window. Is this how you keep your secret orders? All over the floor? I usually keep them in a pile, sir. They're not in a pile now, Captain. Come to think of it, they're not, sir. I wonder who... Hey, what's this? Where's that Sergeant? What's that piece of paper you're trying to hide, Captain? Give me that paper. Yes, sir. Colonel O'Clock is a stinker. First class. What? Where's the first Sergeant? Here I am, sir. Place yourself under arrest, Sergeant Glumppe. But Colonel Sir, I didn't... But Colonel Sir... Oh, no! From this moment on, Sergeant Glumppe, you are once right below a private first class. Oh, no! You're gonna earn six bucks from that crap game, don't you? Yeah. I'll cancel it. I'll call it even. All I want is you should get Greengrain up in an aeroplane. But why? Because he gets seasick in aeroplanes, that's why. And when you're seasick, you're miserable. And Mr. Greengrain's misery is all I'm living for. Here he comes. Give me my window so we don't know you're talking about. Hey, Greengrain. Greengrain! This is my old aviator pal, Sidney. Tell me, how was the air corpse? Oh, not bad, not bad. I got me another cluster. Yeah, yeah, that's it. The air corpse gets all the medals and we does all the fighting. Well, maybe you're right, Artie. We do have it kind of easy in MB-17. You can say that again. How'd you like to come up with us sometime, Artie? Any old time, any old time at all. That's fine, let's go. You mean now? Yeah, yeah. My tail's gonna sink. I'll fix it up with the captain. Give me the airfield in 15 minutes. Well, I guess I let myself in for something. Oh, I gotta make the best of it. You're a Greengrain, Greengrain. Always remember that. Where's that Sidney? Oh, there he is, behind that plane. That must be his pilot he's talking to. I'd better wait here till he's through. His name is Greengrain captain. He's a football in the entire Army. Why do you want to take him up? Well, it's a gag, captain. I want to scare the pants off him. They'll blight your friend. What friend? His name is Sergeant Glump. Well, I've worked a low-doubt, dirty, double dealin'. Sir, just a routine flight, ain't it, captain? We won't run into anything. Oh, no, not a chance. Hasn't been an enemy plane where we're going in six weeks. You know it's against regulations, Sidney. Yes, I know that, sir. Oh, he doesn't? No, sir. He says the Air Corps gets all of medals for doing absolutely nothing. Oh, he does, huh? Well, Sidney, my compliments for your friend, Mr. Greengrain. Ask him if he'd like to go for a little ride. Oh, gee, thanks, captain. Believe me, this is gonna be one ride that Romeo never forget. It is, huh? That's what you think, Sidney, oh boy. That's what you think. This is what your Air Corps hero does, huh? Oh, my, my. Sidney, my man, just wake me up when something important happens. Until then, I do not wish to be disturbed. That dirty double-crossing. I'll show him. Scare the pants off me, will I? Coming in at 10 o'clock. Two message mitts. Greengrain! Uh, yes, Sidney, dear. Did you hear the captain? Two message mitts. Coming in at 10 o'clock. Oh, is that so? The captain's watch must be slow. It is half past 11. Five more at six o'clock. Greengrain, get that gun going. Greengrain, do you hear me? I hear you, Sidney. Not only that, but it happens. I overhear you tell the captain that you was gonna try to scare the pants off of me. Yeah, but this is no gag. This is a real thing. Why, Sidney, all hearts get on work. You see, I'm 100% nonchalant. That's what I am. Off we go into the wild, blue, young, dirty, blue. What's them big round holes in front of me? You look out the window and find out. Okay, Sidney, anything to oblige, I don't want to... There's nothing out there, but some planes with swastikas all over them, nothing to get... Swastikas! It's Greengrain, captain. He just fainted. What do you think you're going? I got more of this, Sergeant Cump. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What's the idea of them combat boots in the car bay? Well, I told you I'm going over. The invasion, you know. Invasion? Yeah. This is D-Day plus 108. Well, it's just the same. I'm crossing the channel with the friends and where Greengrain goes, there's war. This would happen to me. Just when I get out of the guardhouse, they torts my revenge on you. Revenge? After I fixed you up with Gwendolyn... With Gwendolyn? You've been seeing her? Well, only this night I've seen her. I told her I was off the battle. I consulted. I told her you was getting out of the clink and that she wasn't a bad Joe. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You done that? Yeah. Honest? Yeah. And she wants you to come up to her apartment tonight. Oh! Yeah. Don't ring the bell. Just walk in like I always did. Oh, Greengrain! I had you so wrong! What time do I show up there? At ten o'clock. Ten o'clock. Well, so long, Ronnie. Not yet. So long, Gotti. I'll never forget what you've done for me. No. No, I guess you never will. So long, Club. I wonder if I should have told him Gwendolyn married Colonel O'Crock this morning. No! I guess I'll wait and phone him at the hospital. William Bendix will return to our cavalcade microphone in a moment. Now, here is Gain Whitman. Today in New York City, the plastics industry opens its first comprehensive show, gathering together for the first time all of the thousands of old and new uses of plastics that represent such an important contribution to modern living. The DuPont Company is introducing at this exhibition an even half-dozen developments in plastic materials with new and different properties not available before in commercial plastics. These are all new developments, additions to the half-dozen outstanding plastics, including nylon, polythene, and lusite acrylic resin which DuPont now manufactures. They are Teflon, tetrafluor ethylene, a unique industrial plastic that withstands all acids, including those which dissolve gold and platinum and retains its form and strength at higher temperatures than any known organic material. 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So many plastic developments from the chemical laboratories of the DuPont Company illustrate the phenomenal growth of the plastics industry which beginning with one material about 75 years ago now offers designers, manufacturers, and builders dozens of materials from which to choose. It must be remembered, of course, that several of these DuPont plastics are so new that they can be purchased only in very small quantity for experimentation at the present time. Others, although they are out of the laboratory will not be in production for many months. But all of them are exciting contributions to a better future. Interesting examples, new examples of DuPont, better things for better living through chemistry. Nice going, Gain. And because it was such a good job, here's a ticket to my radio show The Life of Riley that I do every Saturday night for Teal. Oh, I thank you, Bill. Here's a paramount picture, the blue dagger in which I am currently being seen. Thank you. Now, then have you got anything for me like a ticket, maybe? No, but I've got a good tip, Bill. Listen to Cavalcade next week. Oh, but I always listen to Cavalcade, Gain. Oh, wait, I haven't finished. Tune in Cavalcade and hear a fine story called First Without End, an interesting story about that wonderful organization Alcoholics Anonymous, starring James Cagney. Well, I just got to have a ticket. All I want is a ticket. Hey, green crummy, you rummy. Well, Sergeant Cove, I ain't seen you since we was in the Army together. Uh, what are you doing in that policeman's uniform? Since I am now a civilian, I am now a cop. And since you parked your crummy automobile in front of a fire hydrant, here is a ticket. Oh, no. Oh, yes, Vendix, you rummy. It's a losing fight, good night, fool. Daylight saving time goes into effect in certain areas on April 28. This may change the time when Cavalcade is heard in your community. Please check your local newspaper for the time Cavalcade could be heard next week. Music for tonight's DuPont Cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster. Our play was written by Arthur Arons, and was based on the book Artie Greengroin, PFC, by Harry Brown. In tonight's cast, John Brown played Sergeant Glump, Paula Winslow was Gwendolyn, and Sidney Miller was Charlie. He included Jerry Hausner, Eddie Maher, Francis X Bushman, William Johnstone, Howard McNair, and Peter Leeds. This is Tom Collins inviting you to listen next week to Thirst Without End, starring James Cagney on the Cavalcade of America, brought to you by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.