 Remember a hallmark card when you care enough to send the very best Tonight from Hollywood the makers of hallmark greeting cards bring you miss Ida Lupino in Hollister nobles woman with a sword 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 The distinguished novelist mr. James Hilton Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton Tonight on our hallmark playhouse. We present the story of one of the most remarkable women America has ever known Perhaps that's a challenging thing to say, but then we have a challenging story to tell a Novelist mr. Hollister noble recently wrote a book called woman with a sword And it is his book that we are dramatizing tonight for the first time on the air And we have the additional good fortune to havers our guest star that charming and brilliant actress Ida Lupino Now Frank goss haven't you something to say for a Christmas greeting your friends will long remember make your selections now from the complete Hallmark collection on display at the friendly store where you buy hallmark cards Whatever your taste whatever your budget you take special pride in sending hallmark cards And on the back of everyone is the identifying hallmark that says you cared enough to send the very best Now hallmark playhouse starring Ida Lupino in Hollister nobles woman with a sword 1865 the day victory Abraham Lincoln sent the following message to Secretary of War Stanton mr. Secretary I concur most heartily with your recent statement as you said so eloquently Hers was the greatest course in the war as an unofficial member of the cabinet She did the great work that made others famous Miss Anna Ella Carol Unusual isn't it Anna Ella Carol a name you probably never heard of I never did until recently Yet in secretary of war Stanton's own words. She did the great work that made others famous Anna Ella Carol woman with a sword Cabinet meeting proves anything at all after one year of war It proves that we have armies without a plan a nation without a head Oh poor as it is I am the head of this nation by the body's free choice of a civilian is Confused as yourself and with no legal right whatsoever to dictate to the armed forces That's the province of our commander-in-chief general McClellan The army's plan is to open the Mississippi which none of us have the power at all But I may have some more news for you on that subject tomorrow Good day gentlemen Mr. President judge Bates to see you. Oh, hello judge Bates. Well, Mr. President. Did you read it? I have studied it, sir It proves beyond any doubt the constitutional fact that in time of war the president becomes commander-in-chief of the armed forces Thank you Surely the need for secrecy as to this lawyers identity no longer exists. Who is it a lawyer who specially is transportation rail and river Perfect. He can take a crack at the Mississippi expedition. Where is he? This lawyer is in the other room awaiting an audience Mr. President may I present the author of the document which proves you commander-in-chief? Miss Anna Ella Carol of Maryland. Good afternoon, mr. President. I'm sorry to see you looking so tired Not tired ma'am. Just flabbergasted Please do sit down Miss Carol now you see the need for secrecy, but it's unfair. I'm accustomed to it, mr. President This is a man's world besides. I'm a southerner. Oh, of course Anna Ella Carol you were the young lady who was charged with being a traitor the union operating right under our noses here in Washington Yes, I believe the gentleman who proved my treachery was Colonel Lem Evans of Texas Until I explained that you were the source of all my confidential data Colonel Evans was only doing his duty and I should like to do mine a woman can accomplish many things which men can Including things men should have done Your heart is with the south Your mind tells you that preserving the union is the only way to preserve the south What are you driving at mr. President? Our military is staking everything on the Mississippi expedition. We must open that great river You're an expert on transportation Go to st. Louis the headquarters of our Mississippi expedition then tell me whether you believe it can work The city is under martial law. I'll need an escort fair enough I've just a man for you an ardent believer in the Mississippi plan Colonel M. Evans You mean the gentleman who charged me with treason. These are my orders you've no one to blame, but yourself It was you who just made me commander-in-chief Oh, thank you, that's a strong current Mississippi man and heading south like the tide of this war We're changing that with our expedition those gunboats built by James Eads are strong and big too big They're for combat not pleasure. I was thinking of combat Colonel They're clumsy death traps the slightest damage can put them out of commission and our boys will float southward on the current to certain If you have some practical suggestion, which would alter the Mississippi and make it run backwards I'm sure we'd all be indebted to you. Why not alter the plans of men colonel I've interviewed everyone out here, and I'm convinced that no intelligent person can support the Mississippi expedition Surely you're not suggesting the Mississippi expedition is stupid and unworkable. You express my feelings very well So the armies that will win this war must be transported by river That's why the enemy waits on one end of the Mississippi and we at the other The southward current is on their side which we will fight with our gunboats a contest you cannot win the chances of war man Not war colonel suicide Now the boats in I have completed my function as your guide I'll say good night miss Carol. I trust There's still enough southern chivalry left in you to help me with my bags to the dock by all means man What's that boatload of wounded soldiers miss All right there pile the wounded under the shed make way down below for the ambulances careful of the medicine It's all it's left. Let me through pilot. Are you a nurse ma'am? I'm here on official business from Washington. These are my credentials credentials more papers if you're not a nurse There's no room for you here ma'am not a pleasant sight for woman's eyes either wounded in maim They are 200 left out of 2,000 what happened pilot on colonel Evans. They knocked out the engines of our five gunboats We drifted down streams living targets By the time the engine of our one boat was repaired to pull back north 1800 had been slaughtered, please let us through sergeant. Let this lady and gentlemen through right captain Martha it's too soon must be the lads wife. He keeps talking to her. I don't want to die We can't all be cowards. I heard the others. I saw them. Don't just see Martha Wasn't like fighting and losing The river was against us It was losing with Out of chance to fight You're not cowards. You're heroes and you'll all have a fair chance to fight. I promise you I swear it They die all of them speaking of the chance to fight they didn't have Pilot get us some water Sergeant spilling salts in the canteen quick about it Cowards Yes cowards afraid to admit you're wrong Sending men to their deaths without a chance for victory easy miss Carol. You'll be in bed soon And what a fair bit six feet of earth or the cold bottom of the river The river The river that's it It does flow north she's hysterical the Tennessee River and it would split the rebel armies in half captain We better get her to the pilot's house. She's delirious. She may be delirious colonel, but she's talking facts for sure The Tennessee River does flow north and taking it would split the rebel forces the Mississippi flows south with enemies at either end a Plan for war ending in disaster But the Tennessee flows north with friends at either end a plan for victory ending in peace I don't need smelling salts. What I want is the pilot's logbook river maps pencil and paper How long have you been on these rivers pilot just a week shy of 40 years miss Carol Then you know them well as well as you know the human heart young lady good We have work to do there's a study in my hotel suite and you are free to join us colonel Evans That is if you care to Four o'clock miss Carol and I admit defeat my brain won't work my eyes are shutting now You're quite sure pilot Scott that the Tennessee River is not too shallow at any point to carry those heavy gunboats Not to my knowledge and from general grant you know for a fact the beyond forts Henry and Donaldson There are no southern soldiers stationed along the Tennessee. They're all inland around the Mississippi Then the shores of the Tennessee are not flanked by rebels soldiers Only southerners Americans Loyal to the Union we hope Hope means uncertainty pilot that I have none. I'm a certain of the depth of their loyalty as you are of the Tennessee Now if some of our gunboats were disabled on the Tennessee River They'd float north back into Union hands any fool who's piloted the boat in the Tennessee would confirm that And why in heaven's name is no one thought of asking you river pilots you seem to have forgotten We are all southerners And you have forgotten pilot we now have a commander in chief who doesn't think in terms of north and south But only in terms of Americans Loyal to the Union miss Carol of all the idiots in this army. I I must be the biggest Should have realized that you sought the answers to questions that we like courage to face Miss Carol little ladies fall in the sleep. I'll carry it How small she is How could those little pink ears here so much? Those soft eyes see so clearly Can it be that this little girl I hold in my arms will Prove to be the military strategist who will save our Union a moment James Hilton will return to present the second act of woman with a sword starring Ida Lupino But first do you like to pick out just the right Christmas card for every person on your list? 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Let's pretend There are cards for special friends, too Yes, whatever your taste whatever your budget whomever you want to remember this Christmas You'll find hallmark cards. You'll be proud to send Cards your friends and loved ones will be proud to receive too for when they see the hallmark on the back They'll know you cared enough to send the very best Now back to James Hilton and the second act of Hollister Nobles woman with the swords Starring Ida Lupino Anna Carroll's Tennessee plan was only begun. It was kept a secret Some thought the plan was Lincoln's other president Lincoln fought for it Stanton agreed to become secretary of war on condition that the Union abandoned the Mississippi expedition and carried through Anne's Tennessee plan But on every other side the plan met with nothing but resistance So here we are Anna Ella Carroll is waiting in a room adjoining the presidential chamber Unaware that she's listening in the next room are assembled the leaders of the military Transportation experts the men in charge of guiding the war Mr. President I was born in Tennessee the Tennessee River is not deep enough to carry the gun votes into southern territory Thank You senator Johnson will weigh your remarks with your respect mr. President I take it you're determined not to disclose the name of the author of this so-called Tennessee plan correct sir for reasons of security security With no disrespect mr. President your so-called Tennessee plan is so disastrous I'm forced to the conclusion that its author is either a civilian an amateur or a rebel you are forced general into Rude-ness by the painful necessity of facing the bare possibility that we were in error While the author of this plan is correct Good day gentlemen We reconvene tomorrow morning who heard in this Carol civilian amateur rebel Need only add the word woman Mr. President give them proof Once for Henry and Donaldson fall all it would take is one union gunboat on the Tennessee River with a crew of 15 It could go all the way into Mississippi in Alabama without a shot being fired and I can prove it can you Where would you find men brave enough to volunteer for such a mission pilot Scott and 13 of his riverboat crew? That still leaves one sir. You seem to have forgotten me Forts Henry and Donaldson have been captured good Now pray God that young lady can prove her case You're sure the crew doesn't know I'm on board quite sure miss Carol Have we passed the worst of it? No, ma'am up ahead is the low-water mark. Oh, it has to be deep enough It has to the union depends on it and Lem Then what are you doing here? How could you have planned to do this without me? Well, I thought you might still disagree with this plan. It was only one of many mistakes. I've made and since corrected Oh, then I'm glad you're here and And there's one mistake I can't afford to make That would be not to tell you how much ever and I must tell you that I feel the same about you And in fact at this moment, it's the only thing. I'm really sure. Oh, this is a good time to be sure of such a thing Here it comes miss Carol low-water mark We're inches from bottom close your eyes and pray We cleared it and at low-water all that remains to be tested now miss Carol is the depth of Southern loyalty It's my first mate We're an enemy waters captain the Sun's up. Shall we man the guns? No break out the flag and stand by to hoist captain. They've seen us and they're rushing out of their houses to the show With guns you heard the orders Head closer to show up pilot. I am I'm not a promising welcome waiting orders, ma'am Oh, it's the union flag with full naval ceremony. Hadn't we ought to wait until we find out their reaction? That's the only way to find out their reaction Hoist the union flag with full ceremony It will Now it will an army's wins mashing victory at Vicksburg Union army occupies Chattanooga Lanter captured Somewhere it isn't really over. Oh, but it is over darling now. We can go to Texas is mr. And mrs. Evans What a wonderful fruit of victory the only fruit of victory that will satisfy me as an end to this conspiracy of silence about you Your plan won the war the world has been clamoring for its author when you speak to mr. Lincoln alone today You better raise this question or I will spoken like a man of the family Here he comes here comes the president Good morning, mr. President You join me miss Carol. Thank you miss Carol. You made a commander-in-chief. You gave him a plan. You helped him carry it out You won a war sir My thoughts are on peace the secretary of war Stanton spoke to me last night He advised me that he would consider it a great privilege to present you to Congress and Senate as the author of the Tennessee Plan Demanding legislation that would grant you the honorary pay of a major general of the Union armies Dating from 1861 mr. President. However Exercising my prerogative is president. I turn him down. I understand the privilege of presenting you to Congress and Senate Is something I insist upon doing myself? Thank you, mr. President before us Lies the mangled road to peace miss Carol you come from Maryland a lot of important work could be done there I'm sorry sir. I'm marrying Lem Evans and returning to Texas with him. Well war is over. I'm no longer commander-in-chief you should go to Texas and Perhaps I should reread that verse which comes from the Bible To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven time of war The time of peace Yes, mr. President and peace is the season for love Then are you sure I look right in this dress? Well, you don't look like a major general darling, but you do look like my bride to be That must be my bonnet come in Judge Bates What is it? President Lincoln was shot an hour ago shot. Is he badly hurt? He's dying. No, I don't believe it Oh Something I the president has planned to present to you for recognition today as you know Secretary of war Stanton can do it instead The decision is entirely up to you, but you realize and that such an announcement at this time would Jeopardize the peace will there ever be a proper time to wait Len The president was right and we were wrong We called it peace and then its deceptive glow killer aim Now Lincoln is dead. We have not won the peace lemon. We must still fight for it Judge Bates Please inform the secretary of war that I would consider it most inappropriate Present me to the Congress and Senate at this time of national disaster and you're making it easier for all of us We will be grateful Good night, and what were you trying to tell me? lemon darling I Too should like to rest I Would like to be alone. I have a lot of thinking to do to the honorable the very honorable Lem Evans Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of Texas My darling darling Yes in the last three years My answers to your letters have been infrequent and far too brief My heart has been too full to permit it more expression Now my head is in command and I can tell you with all my heart that I love you and always shall and Hope one day to share a happy life with you in Texas But the peace is not yet one and in time of war Each defends his home Yours is Texas Mine is Maryland Perhaps you are right That there is no real end to the fight for peace And therefore to the road I'm traveling But I desperately hope you are wrong But even if you aren't I Cannot leave the battlefield now The fact that I have not received recognition does not matter Someday somehow that recognition will come I Have no hunger for it lemon My hunger is only for you Sometimes I feel that I must rush blindly to Texas at once for getting everything then I remember I Remember the last words that President Lincoln spoke to me And I know now why he spoke them and I hope that you too may understand To everything there is a season And a time for every purpose under the heaven Time of war and a time of peace Yours forever And James Hilton and Ida Lupino again selecting your hallmark Christmas cards now You'll find cards so suitable. They seem specially written for every person on your list So better pay a visit soon to the friendly store where you buy hallmark cards There's a wide variety of individual hallmark cards that say just what you want to say the way you want to say it And you'll find many boxes of assorted hallmark cards for last-minute editions to your list Remember when friends receive these fine cards and grants at the back They'll see the hallmark and know you cared enough to send the very best Here again is James Hilton Miss Lupino you've just brought to life for us a great American woman your performance was a tribute to her memory For the makers of hallmark cards our gratitude for your charming presence here this evening and our Thanks for your unforgettable performance of a forgotten woman. Thank you. Mr. Hilton. It was a great privilege to play Anna Ella Carroll I hope that we have done something here this evening will help to bring her the honor. She deserves It's a human frailty. I suppose to forget But then you hallmark people are doing such a splendid job to overcome that to help people remember with those fine Hallmark greeting cards of yours. Oh, thank you again for asking me to be here. I have enjoyed it Do please visit us anytime our hallmark playhouse is every Thursday Our music is by Lynn Murray our director producer is D Engelbach and our adaptation tonight was by J. Richard Kennedy And next week we shall present a most unusual Christmas story the desert shall rejoice starring John Hodiak and The following week two nights before Christmas will tell you a great story with great music The true story of how silent night came to be sung throughout the world. I Believe these are two shows you won't want to miss 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 in friendly service Remember hallmark cards when you carry enough to send the very best Idolopino is currently being starred in Roadhouse at 20th Century Fox production This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when James Hilton returns to present The desert shall rejoice starring John Hodiak. This program came to you from the hallmark playhouse. This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system