 been heard round the world presented by the DuPont Company makers of better things for better living through chemistry with Donald Crisp as Judge Henry French here is heard round the world time 1875 place Concord Massachusetts by the rustic bridge across the Concord River look at that pack of people look at them on both sides of the bridge up with the metastews stretching way down the river there's a fight take your hands off me I'm going across that bridge it's my just right Mr. you're not going across that bridge step aside Captain no one is allowed across the bridge till the statue is unveiled only governors congressmen judges and foreign potentates are allowed now does that describe you it does I am Patrick Harrington hand even extraordinary to his honor Judge Henry French that's enough out of you get back now back Judge French Judge French here's his honor no he'll tell you he'll fix it what's all the commotion about who I judge this man was trying to do I or don't I deserve to cross the bridge you certainly do Patrick captain since I'm here taking my son's place you understand of course that my son was the sculptor of this statue but what he is now studying in Italy and I've been chosen to take his place at the ceremony was that's all right so go right ahead well now if I take my son's place that means my place is empty exactly your honor well now just a minute I will appoint my handyman Patrick to fill my empty place you follow me captain well now I believe is all quite regular especially as Patrick's strong right arm was used as a model for this statue of the minute man good afternoon captain come along Patrick we'll now deliver an address thank you very kindly your honor for sneaking me in well you deserve it we have gathered here in great concourse to dedicate this memorial to the men at men who stood in the same green field and by this calm river stood and died for us a hundred years ago today when it was first my privilege to act from the committee to select this statue yes my son statue it will be in the school books even I'll be in the school books because I'm the father of Daniel Chester French yes but I feel that's honest I doubted my own son watching the boy grow up I always doubted him even five years ago I doubted him I remember one evening when I'd sent for him come Henry why have you asked Dan to come to the study because my dear I think a very direct talk is most decidedly indicated but he's the fourth child Henry you can't judge him by the others I'm judging him by his brother will really six years older please come in and shut the door Pamela when will was Dan's age he was one of the most brilliant students are that ever had now is Dan at Harvard I'm asking you is Dan at Harvard no dear he isn't well you think he ever will be that's difficult to see but at least he's happy here working on the farm do you think there is the remotest chance of our youngest child ever engaging in any form of intellectual activity higher than that of a rustic oh yes then now now Henry please don't be too severe come in I did son what have you been doing today cutting asparagus did it ever occur to you that there might possibly be some more productive form of enterprise yes father well now that's very encouraging what are you thinking of I was thinking that I should work on a strawberries no Daniel yes sir when we moved to Concord we came partly to be near Boston to my law office but mainly we came to give our children the advantage of growing up in a community where education and culture about yes sir now I may be an error son but I've always believed that ideas could be communicated yes father I think you're right now would you son tell us any ideas you might have received during these years we've been here in Concord I don't know father I like it here I like the birds I like the river I like to walk by Walden pond are those ideas oh dear daughter Henry may I make a suggestion under the circumstances I think anything would be welcome Dan might read more if he didn't work quite so much on the farm well I see all right what books do you think you might read Dan if we shortened your labor I don't rightly know father oh suppose we gave you the afternoons free what would you care most to do should I answer honestly sir by all means if I had my afternoons free father I'd care most to walk out with the girls Daniel what your father's trying to say is what would I'm asking you what are you going to do with your life you are now 19 what will you do father I haven't quite decided I would you like to work in my office as a petty clerk no thank you or a messenger that would keep you outdoors yes but it would be outdoors in a city father and that isn't outdoors would you perhaps be interested in shipping before the mass like that gain avoided no father then what my dear flesh and blood would you care to do father do you figure I earn my keep working with Patrick here on the farm I certainly do then father I just like to keep on earning my keep that boy would have driven a saint the distraction as I look back I realize I wasn't all my fault I did everything I could I tried to interest him in something I left books around I took him to the all cuts to tea I took him to the emissants the Hawthorns and finally in the middle of one Sunday night I gave up Pamela yes you sleep no day what's troubling you from this moment forward I wash my hands of Dan Oh Henry it isn't that he's a troublesome son he's good he's honest he's industrious but I want more I know you do I cannot endure the thought of a commonplace son look he he might be an artist well what could possibly have put that into your head I think he draws a little Dan draw he draws a plow and no more well once I found some pieces of brown wrapping paper under his bed well and they were covered with drawings of God and goddesses well how did they look I confess I didn't frame them it's exactly as I thought why don't I try having a talk with Dan tomorrow try my dear if you want to but I give up I honestly give up oh mom it's me Patrick Dan ain't here Mrs. French I thought he was out here bundling asparagus with you Patrick oh the boy was working hard Mrs. French but then he started glancing up at that pile of turnips over there well he knew his father wanted everything bundled before dark didn't he yes but he keeps looking up at a great round white turnip on the top of the pile about an hour later without a word up he gets goes over to the pile takes that turnip heads out the barn door and away across the field out of sight down by the river didn't you say anything didn't you ask him what was wrong no ma'am I just figured he was took with a long and for turnip Patrick I have to ask you a question about Dan yes of course ma'am now you work with him all day you see more of him than we do what do you think of the boy he's not lazy mrs. French if that's what you mean no sir he'll sweat it out with any man his father keeps saying if he'd only read in the evenings to better himself he just sit where now he does sit every chance he gets there's no denying that no take every evening this week he's been sitting out here with me watching two owls in the hemlock tree the judge says Dan hasn't thought in his head and I don't know what he's got in his head ma'am but oh he's got a fine pair of hands did you see the job he did mend in the harness oh ma'am I tell you watching that boys fingers goers of pleasure like watching a family of fish I did it I've got something I did it oh mother look look what I found inside the turnip Dan you carved that frog out of a turnip all the saints it is a frog do you like it the fanciest frog I ever saw in pants and take hold it's a frog that's going a wooing you like it mother then it is a beautifully beautiful frog he seems to be hopping right at me I thought that too he seemed to be hopping at me right out of that turnip you're listening to herd round the world starring Donald crisp on the cavalcade of America presented by the DuPont company makers of better things for better living through chemistry on April 18th 1875 in Concord Massachusetts before thousands of people the statue of the minute man's about to be unveiled as Ralph Waldo Emerson is speaking judge Henry French the sculptor's father thinks back to the time when he first had a hint there was a sculptor in his son and he tried to help Dan we have most to what's that big bundle on the sideboard Daniel yes sir last night after your mother showed me that piece of turnip and after you went up to bed she asked me what I was going to do about it yes father well at the time I didn't know exactly what she meant or what I could do about the turnip if I knew what she meant but then on the train into the office this morning I started thinking about this and that and again during the day I thought a bit further how do you mean father well that is of course I didn't think about it during working hours because I always keep my mind on my work during working hours oh yes father but during lunch and I recollected a little shop on Bromfield Street that I once saw with paints and brushes in the window eat your dumpling down so when I left the office I stopped on the way to the depot and I asked the shopkeeper if there was any a special material that could be used by someone who might be inclined to make or shape small ornamental objects out of one thing or another with his hands he said yes there was with that he sold me 10 pounds of what is called modeling clay father and that is what is in that bundle that now rests on the sideboard oh father from then on all his spare time Dan stayed in his room he made a lot of little things out of the clay even then I doubt again but one of our neighbors may all cut was a professional sculptor she had just returned from studying abroad so I asked Mrs. French to go to her advice hello there Mrs. French we're all out here in the garden join us for tea Johnny Louisa me thank you I can't stay oh come along Pamela do join us we're reading Louisa's mail and everybody every day there's someone who wants to know why when the little women will get their little men please sit down Pamela here now milk or lamb or clothes no half a clove may I leave you a clove nothing I can't say really but I must have two words with me yes I think she's in her studio may Mrs. French if you look up at the third floor window my daughter may well any moment now thrust out her head may all cut Pamela I'm filthy and sticky and you can't come up and I won't come down but may I come for advice well I hear wonderful gossip of your boy Dan is it true is he talent well he's made a dog's head and he's made two owls and a deer and him around well his father doesn't think he should be further encouraged unless his talent is genuine we'll have Dan bring his stuff over good then you can say what you think don't worry I will I'll say exactly what I think there's my dog miss me and here's two owls well and there's my deer fine let's put them around this way Dan with a light can hit all right oh this is a panther I haven't finished it yet yes it's legs are wobbly it needs an armature what an armature a skeleton a little skeleton of stiff wire a small pipe that keeps it strong and straight then you build the clay around that that's right I like that pair of owls Dan I like that best too do I have such beautiful faces oh yes miss me I think they do in the evening that that wing outstretched it's wonderful that pair of owls was in our hemlock tree every evening after supper he used to put one foot on hers and then his wing around her like that he was courting can you tell that of course you've caught it Dan I've tried to you have I don't know I don't know I Dan if you want to you can come here to my studio every day I'll teach you all I can do you think I could learn I'm not very bright you know and I disappoint people I've always disappointed my father Dan I can tell it from your hands and from your heart you know what can't be taught and what can be taught I'll teach you and when I can't teach you anymore then you'll go to Boston then New York then Rome wrong you want to work with me Dan we start tomorrow if I can just run now and tell my father I'd like to come back here and start tonight the days after that with a happiest of my life we used to ride Boston together I went to my law office Dan went to dr. Rimmer's class in artistic anatomy for surgeons and sculptors this went on for some time then one night as we rode home on the train together father yes son I've come to a decision there's no art school in Boston I've learned all I can from dr. Rimmer I want to go to New York well do you think you're ready dr. Rimmer does and my little animal figures won a prize at the cattle show and I sold the two owls for $50 to that novelty manufacturer where would you study in New York there's a real sculptor there he has a studio right on Central Park I think he'd take me for a month or two young man you seem rather well informed and I can live for nothing in Brooklyn I've already written my aunt Catherine Wells and she'll take me and she knows the sculptor do you consent sir can I do anything else so Dan went to New York learned all about callipers and castings and all the endless mechanical work that makes the sculptors discipline then one night of supper after his return read the paper tonight then I did mother you see what it said about a statue competition no I didn't sir old Ebenezer Hubbard has left a thousand dollars to erect a memorial to the minute man at Concord Bridge mother may I have some more shad did you hear me Dan yes sir there's been a committee chosen to choose it mr. Emerson is one of the members more potatoes to please now I happened on mr. Emerson today I'm really hungry I plowed up five acres today and your father wants to tell you about mr. Emerson oh I'm sorry dad he informed me that small clay models would be invited from various sculptors of the nation and from these the committee would select the best to be made life-size and then cast into bronze I wondered how they might go about it well your interest seems remarkable we have some Chad Henry Dan have you any thought to make such a model no sir or may I ask what restrains you my own limitations what father this is for professionals so what are you you sold that pair of ours for $50 but I'm only beginning I never tried anything in bronze I've never made a full length figure then it's high time you did no son of mine is going to spend his entire life playing with mud and making midgets oh please Henry I tell you it's high time that boy buckles down to a full-sized man please have some shad I'm waiting for your reply Daniel but father this is hard the minute man has to be more than a statue it has to stand for something give me some shad my dear now Daniel Chester French yes father I shall expect you to have something to submit to that committee within six months father owls are owls and a deer is a deer but I don't know how to start on a man you'll do exactly as may all cut said first you draw you draw a minute man then you draw another you draw minute men standing up you draw them sitting down or running or firing or crouched behind a stone wall or standing by a plow or leaving a plow he sleeves rolled up he sleeves rolled down with his musket without his musket you follow me and your shed is getting cold then you do it all all over again in little clay models you will cover your table with models you will cover your bookshelves in your wash stand when your window sill is stacked with them we will give you your brother wills room when six months of elapsed and the house is stacked with clay models you will then select your best model in consultation with your mother and me of course and you will convey that model to the committee they at one glance will decide that it is the best possible minute man and without further delay commission you to recreate it life size and have it cast in bronze do you consensure yes father I do and that's what happened that's why I'm here today taking my son's place because he's a way studying in Italy your honor your honor what oh yes yes yes it's the unveilings about to take place look now we shall never debase ourselves now let the silk and cord be pulled and let the statue face the world in this clear April air let us remember what he stands for sleeves rolled up clutching vigilantly his musket in the defense of American freedom let us remember what happened here as these verses carved on the base of the statue say by the rude bridge that arched the flood that flag to april's breeze unfurl here once in battle farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world even now judge so shall we be going home with the rest no you you just go on Patrick I want to be alone here for a while with just the statue just a moment we have a surprise for you here is the only daughter of Daniel Chester French the sculptor whose story we brought on you we brought you tonight rather on tonight's cavalcade Mrs. Margaret French Crescent an author and a sculptor in her own right thank you mr. Pearson I think cavalcade's audience will be interested in this footnote to tonight's story 50 years from the time my father started his sketches for the minute man in conquered another great statue appears was unveiled on Memorial Day 1922 the statue of another American defender of liberty which can be seen in another hallowed American shrine the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington well Mrs. Crescent those 50 years represent one of America's most distinguished careers in sculpture thank you Mrs. Crescent for being with us on tonight's cavalcade tonight's original cavalcade play heard round the world starring Donald Chris was written by Halstead Wells was adapted from the book journey into fame published by the Harvard University Press was written by Margaret French Crescent featured tonight with mr. Chris been the cast was Elliott Reed is damned Donald Chris may currently be seen in the Paramount Pictures production whispering Smith the music for the defant cavalcade's composed by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Boris this is Ted Pearson speaking next week cavalcade will present the dynamic and dazzling Hollywood star Ginger Rogers our play is set in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War when a beautiful woman named Lydia Dara out with it a British Colonel and came to the aid of General Washington and the American troops be sure to listen next Monday night to cavalcade and our star Ginger Rogers cavalcade of America's directed by John Zoller comes to you each week from the stage of the Longacre Theatre on Broadway in New York and is presented by the DuPont Company of Wilmington Delaware this is NBC the national broadcasting company