 Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Hallmark cards bring you another in their exciting new series of broadcasts on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This week Hallmark will bring you true to life stories of actual persons who in their own way have contributed to a better world for all of us to live in. Presented on the Hallmark Hall of Fame by our distinguished host, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame, respectfully dedicated to those men and those women whose service, sacrifice and devotion have made our lives better, but about whom we know too little. Now you've seen those gay stickers on the windows of cars that read Yellowstone National Park, picture of old faithful geyser, Zion National Park, Crater Lake, and old score others. Well, who pasted those stickers on those windows? Why, you say happy vacationers, refreshed and ready for their daily tasks again. Well, somebody else put them there. A man named Nathaniel Pitt Langford, because his heart was firm and his faith was steady. We have the most inspiring vacation lands on earth. He is dynamic, true story follows him in a moment. And now, here's Frank Gox for the makers of Hallmark cards. When you want to remember your friends, there's one way to be sure the card you send receives an extra welcome. Look for that identifying Hallmark on the back when you select it. For words to express your feelings and designs to express your good taste. Let the Hallmark on the back be your guide. When that Hallmark kills your friends, you cared enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with Metro Golden Mayor, producer of the technical picture, Lily, starring Leslie Carone, Mel Ferrera, and Jean-Pierre Amont. And now, here is Lionel Barrymore with the first act of your Hallmark Hall of Fame. Like the wind, his clothes hanging tight, his head bruised and bleeding, his eyes stare at his heels, Tomahawk raised, runs in India. Suddenly the man whirls, puts an arm lock on the end of it. Improbable land you say you discovered. It's not improbable. Canyon in a chained river. John Colter spoke of the smoking land of strange and terrible grandeur. Two horsemen of the Washburn, Langford, Done, Expedition, Scout and Twilight. They're Judge Cornelius Edges and Nathaniel Langford. Living country, Judge. We can stop when one of the horses here solitude, sanic world of steam and salt. I wish I did. By faith and miracles and in human reliability. The ghosts of a tribe seem to haunt a night for mighty revelations, for miracles, its moonlight, its wilderness, Langford being shaken out of the deep sleep by his friend Judge Edges. Night again for council around the campfire of the Yellowstone Expedition. Yes, gentlemen, John Colter's inferno of two generations ago is a fact. Immense jets of boiling water and steam shooting into the urgent. Lakes of boiling mud colored like the Devil's Own paint pot and the canyon. Magnificent and the great falls. Twice as high as Niagara. Just what in your opinion is the prospect of finding save for the wake of this howling, sputtering, returned in a hard cache? Judge Edges will tell you briefly what we discussed on our way back to camp. Judge, I'm a legal man. I formulated a principle which Langford and I wish to apply to the Yellowstone. There should be no private ownership of any part of it. That's so. Yes, this land must belong to the people. It must be set aside as a national park for all the people. Are you crazy, Langford? I don't think so, Mr. George. Give away the land to a rabble, but maybe there's gold in there. Maybe there isn't, George. All right, maybe there isn't. But there have always been one to make a fortune unknown to that Langford's picnickers. Picnickers? Picnickers, Langford. You're planning to turn this country into a free picnic ground for America's great unwashed. Have you a better plan, Mr. Gerrit? Yes, I have a better plan. Men's take out your claims in the Yellowstone. It's a fine spectacular property. Fine for sightseers and tourists. Maybe the hot springs Langford talks about will make mineral beds for the unwashed. That's so much per head. How if I can help it? Sherman man, that Gerrit. The funders of the Yellowstone were to me the sound of anthems in the darkling wood. Very apt. But Gerrit was a rot. Yeah, speaker of the devil. And toward the Yellowstone alone, stick a claim for it. A national park, a cathedral, call it anything. To our true story of Nathaniel Pitt Langford. For many of us, Easter time like Christmas brings nostalgic memories. Grandmother may think of riding the church in a horse-drawn surrey. Mother may recall how tall the lilies looked in the old family church. And dad may remember the way the parson shook his hand as if he were a grown man instead of a little boy in his best Sunday suit. Yes, Easter is a time for reminiscing and a time to give thanks that we live in a free land where each of us can worship in his own way. On this Easter Sunday, perhaps you would like to share your feelings with friends you can't see with the family you knew in your childhood. If you would, I think you'll find hallmark Easter cards are a perfect way to express those feelings. You can choose hallmark Easter cards that have a deep religious appeal that are reminders of the promise and glory of the first Easter Sunday long ago. These are the cards you'll be especially proud to send, for they say in a most gracious way, happy Easter to you. And now here is Lionel Barrymore. Before this agreement, the whole expedition entered this strange, unearthly land of the Yellowstone into enchantment and awe. Then they turned back to hell in Montana. Then Nathaniel Langford began to prepare his program for converting the Yellowstone to a great national park. The reason why I shouldn't leave my door unlocked? Good question with a very practical answer. I sit on you. For the answer to why you should lock your door. I organized a company for building a resort hotel in the Yellowstone. He hasn't. Staked, sir? He says rather noisily that he won't let you turn the place into a picnic ground. She would twist my word and my purpose that way. He's prepared to twist your arm until you cry for mercy. Oh, is that? He says he's Wyoming and Montana, still pretty untamed and justice, I'm sorry to say, is slower than gunpowder. You really ought to leave town that. I'm leaving town in the morning. Had it for Washington. Uh-uh. Not tomorrow morning. If you do, you may never get to Washington, son. Washington. You can be ridden down or you can step out of the way. You're bluffing. Langford works his way east, bringing to crossroads and villages and cities his dream of the Yellowstone as a sanctuary for all living things. As a place of peace and beauty and inspiration for all Americans. Actly as William Cullen Bryant called the groves first temples. And I tell you that one cannot stand in the land of the Yellowstone and not here, as I did, the sound of anthems in the geysers of the Yellowstone. Like I said, folks, plumb crazy. Look on this lecture tour, I can understand why. Question the testimony of John Coulter. Until I myself saw the wonder of the Yellowstone as a national park. That man was on our expedition, but he wants to profit personally from the land. My friend, do you want to pay taxes to Maine so was not fired upon by shot it by Indians? Yes. A choice between paying taxes on a super picnic ground patrolled by hostile savages or writing your congressman a vote against the National Park Bill. Nathaniel Langford is tired. In the last effort to win the public, he persuades a magazine publisher to accept an article about the Yellowstone country. The last gun of the battle, by stagecoach, by horse. Nathaniel Langford returns to hell in the Montana. On a weird moonlit night, he again enters the eerie land of the Yellowstone alone. Being unearthly in the moonlight, the velvet silhouette of the mantled hills and ghosts. The groves were caught in monstrous feathers of the geysers, soaring like phantoms into the phantom night. He sends a long message to the publisher in New York. I plead to our people for a national park. It was my deep belief that so magnificent and solitary a grandeur, so soul-filling a spectacle as the Yellowstone created through the ages and rehearsed faithfully without human audience for an eternity, was not for profit and not by chance, but in good time for the race of man and all his children. Was I wrong to read your final confession of defeat? In response to the thousands of letters received by the Congress, I have this day put my signature to the bill, making the land of the Burning Mountain and the Yellowstone a national park. It would be only just for you to honor us by becoming first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Go on, go on. And the generosity of your instinct, which has made my own way clear in this happy matter, generations of Americans will soon witness the performance of that sublime spectacle Rehearsed as you say for an eternity, I join my gratitude to theirs, Ulysses S. Grand President of the United States. Well, he'll want an answer to his offer to the supertenancy. I'll tell him I have heard the sound of anthems in the Darkling Wood. Amidst the cool and silence, I kneel down and offer to the mightiest solemn thanks. Made the fabled land of the Yellowstone a reality for all of us. And with it began the greatest national park system on earth. He served five years without pay. As first superintendent of the park, administering an immense wonderland as large as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Today, Yellowstone National Park is host to over a million visitors a year. Truly, Nathaniel Langford heard anthems in the Darkling Wood for all of us to share. Another wonderfully interesting person to honor next week's Hallmark Hall of Fame. But first Frank Garcia, he's here to tell us about a grand old friend with great big ears that will soon be paying his visit. If you have little folks at your house, you're probably answering a lot of questions these days. Questions like, when's the Easter Bunny coming? What will he bring? How does he know where we live? Well, it's fun to perpetuate the legend of Mr. Easter Rabbit. And yet, most of us want to teach our youngsters much more about Easter Tide. We want them to understand the true loving spirit of the season and to learn the selfless habit of giving. Now, one of the nicest ways you can help your boys and girls to be thoughtful of others this season is by taking them shopping for Hallmark Easter cards. You'll find appropriate cards for each of the children's relatives and friends at fine stores across the country. Cards for aunts and uncles, for grandparents and teachers, and for playmates or chums at school. And there are dozens of Hallmark Easter cards for you to send to the children too. Yes, and there's something else to remember. Your lesson in giving will be complete if you see to it that an Easter seal goes on every card you mail. Don't forget to buy Easter seals for crippled children one day soon. And now here again is Lionel Barrymore. There was a Frenchman, you bear by name, who once said, children have more need of models than the critics. And it's so true. We can do a great deal to teach our youngsters thoughtfulness, friendliness, and unselfishness. And the little rascals catch on mighty quick too. You know, just the other afternoon, a cute little trick with big brown eyes and lots of freckles that lives near me. Little Anne, her name is. She's four. Well, Anne brought me over some cookies and marmot bake. And she was just beaming with pride at her own gift. Yes, we can't start too young to think of others and to do things for others and to learn how to be a friend. Those are the only sure ways I know of being really happy. Well, there I go, philosophizing again when I'm supposed to be telling you about next week on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. We're going to bring you the thrilling story of the man who joined two great continents in spite of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The story of Cyrus W. Field and the laying of the first Atlantic cable. Our Hallmark Hall of Fame is every Sunday. Our producer, director, William Gaye, our music was arranged by Earl Towner and our script tonight was written by Milton Geiger. Until next Sunday then, this is Lionel Barry Moore saying, good night. Carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember a Hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. The part of Nathaniel Pitt Langford was played by Lamont Johnson with Ted D'Corsia as Judge Hedges. Gerald Moore as Gerrit, Tom Tully and Polly Bear as Coder and his companion. Ladies and gentlemen, spring will soon be here and that means more of us will be out on the roads driving with our families. More traffic unfortunately means more accidents and the National Safety Council urges all of us to drive extra carefully, obey all traffic signals, make sure all parts of our cars are in top working order. Don't turn that Sunday afternoon jot into tragedy. Drive carefully. Every Sunday Hallmark cards presents two great programs for the whole family's enjoyment. The Hallmark Hall of Fame on radio with host Lionel Barrymore and on television with Miss Sara Churchill. Catochial paper for time and station. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when we present another true to life story of actual persons who in their own way have contributed to a better world for all of us to live in. Next Sunday we honor Cyrus W. Field on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This is KMVC, Kansas City, Missouri.