 Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Here's a hallmark cards bring you an unusual true story on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. And here's our distinguished host, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame, where we offer you true stories about real people. Just three days ago in Oslo, Norway, the Nobel Foundation awarded their annual peace prizes. This was done according to the terms of the will of the late Alfred Bernard Nobel. Tonight, we tell you the little-known story behind that will. And later in the broadcast, you'll hear a recorded report from Oslo with the dramatic highlight of the Nobel Award. Now, here is Frank Goss for the makers of Hallmark cards. Do you want to delight your friends during the new year by remembering their birthdays and wedding anniversaries? It's easy if you get your Hallmark date book for 1954. 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Sit there. Full name? Alfred Bernhard Nobel. Age? 31. Your work? I'm a civil engineer. I worked with my father at the factory. I'm well aware of that, Mr. Nobel. Now tell me, how did the explosion occur? I don't know. I've been trying to think. Then perhaps you can tell me who was responsible. Well, I applied for the license. I hold the patent. It's my business. Ah, then you're responsible, Mr. Nobel. I intend to make that fact public at an official inquiry. May I go now, Constable? Just one thing more, Mr. Nobel. Come, identify him. I've never seen him. Possibly just a passerby. Ah, another passerby? No. Who is he? Who is he? Emil Nobel. What? My youngest brother. Ah, thank you. You may go now, Mr. Nobel. 1867. Dear mother. Nitroglycerin, as we used it in liquid form, is unmanageable. And that was the reason for our personal disaster. I have recently succeeded in combining it with an absorbent. The new product is entirely safe. We intend to manufacture it through companies in all parts of the world. We call it dynamite. Mother! Well, this is a nice surprise. How are you, my son? Oh, forgive me, mother. Oh, headaches again? Yes, constantly. For a week now. Dear, tell me you've spent every waking hour in the laboratory or in a business meeting. You're getting to be a very rich man at the price of these headaches. The doctors tell me nitroglycerin causes it. A mansion in Paris, another one in Italy, one in England, horses, carriages, paintings, wardrobes. All that money can buy. Do you have to work? Ah, mother, you don't understand. I've seen how you live in a few weeks you've been home organizing the new factory. Do you ever go out with your friends? Friends? What friends? Where are they? Who are they? Everywhere I turn they come to me with schemes, ambitions. I have no schemes. No, no, I know, mother. And you're the only one I trust. That's a very nice thing to say to a mother. But I'll try very, very hard to forget you even said it. Alfred, I can love you and be devoted to you. But you need warmth and affection from someone else. Well, perhaps I'll be leaving soon. The Prussians and the French have come to terms. I'll be working in Paris again. Oh, Alfred, no matter where you go it'll be the same. What? I'm afraid you're the loneliest millionaire on earth. I beg your pardon. Oui, monsieur? I would like to put an advertisement in your paper. Oui. It's for the care of the editorial office. Yes, well, here it is. This is for yourself, monsieur? Yes, yes, that's right. And just as it is written? Yes, yes. It will appear tomorrow then, monsieur. Oh, well, thank you. Thank you. Good day. Good day. Elderly, cultured gentleman. Very wealthy, speaks five languages. He's from Paris, seeks equally mature lady as secretary and supervisor of household. Oh, monsieur. In just a moment, we return to the second act of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. 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And now Lionel Barrymore brings you the second act of our true story of Alfred Nobel. In his lifetime, Alfred Nobel was known as the dynamite king. The day he placed the advertisement for a secretary, he destined himself to become known as the man of peace. There was just a single response to his advertisement. Dear sir, I would be pleased if you would consider the qualifications which I have enumerated below. I am 33 years of age, unmarried, and have been employed until recently as governess in the home of Baron von Sutner. I speak five languages besides German, English, French, Spanish, Italian. Countess Kinski. Well, yes. You are Mr. Nobel. How do you do? I took rooms for you at the ground. That was very close for you. Is something wrong? You're much younger than you say. No, Mr. Nobel. But I'll admit, I am started. I was expecting an elderly man. You can't be over 40. Well, I am. Something is wrong now? It's just that I didn't expect you to measure up to your letters. You are a very frank person, Mr. Nobel. I won't ask you what you have decided now that you have seen me. I've decided that your letters are not worthy of you. Welcome to Paris, Mr. Kinski. Good evening, Pierre. Will you tell Mr. Nobel I'm waiting for him? Oh, he is not here, monsieur. He has been away every evening this week. He is completely contentious of work. You met the contestant? She is going to work for him, isn't she? As soon as her quarters and the main building are arranged, I believe Mademoiselle is here to stay. Stop, please. Stop your driver. Well, that was once so splendid. The Prussian gunners must have been very accurate during the war. This are your trembling. I really shouldn't feel. After all, I was an officer's daughter. Wars have always been nothing more than periodic visitations, such as earthquakes and floods. There will always be wars. I wish there were a way to stop them. There is, Adretta. Oh, there is. You are a rich and powerful man. Suppose you were to use your wealth and power to stop wars? Yes, I've thought of it. All I have to do is to work very hard and invent something so terrible that any participants would be in danger of complete annihilation. Stop it! Is that why you invented dynamite? For war? For everything but war, for rivers to be dredged, mines to be opened, harbors and buildings, and all of the things that would be impossible without it. Further, you know that is honestly the fact. When I first met you at the station, I was truly surprised that the dynamite king could have such blue eyes and a kindly face. But you are a cynic, Adretta. You are afraid to face facts. Facts? I faced a fact in my laboratory. Driver, move on! A star cold man an hour. I came by to apologize before I left. I have thought a great deal about what we were discussing earlier. All my life I have thought of it. And all my life I have thought of someone like you. Now, a few days together I have discovered a great deal. Have you, Adretta? Don't you understand? Wait! I must tell you. There is someone else. The son of the family of Wotor in Vienna. Otto von Sötener. His family objected. It is all over now. Thank you for telling me. I shan't be away too long. A little time will pass. You'll have a new life here and you'll forget. That, Monsieur. How is she? How is her apartment? Is she comfortable? Mission a bell if you will let me take your call. Yes, yes, yes. Here. Is she in her apartment now? Mademoiselle is not here. What? She is not here, Monsieur. She left two days ago. This is for you. Forgive me, Alfred. I could not forget him. I am now Baroness von Sötener in spite of the family objections. Wish us luck. I have told my husband about you and both now feel you are our most precious friend. Alfred Nobel had found love and lost it. Once again, he was a lonely man in the world of strangers. And the years went by. I must see him. Gentlemen, it is impossible to talk to him. He is not here. Monsieur Nobel left two days ago for Zurich. Zurich, is he going to address the peace congress? I cannot answer that. I know Baroness von Sötener is there. Did he go to see her? I suspect he did go to see her. Von Sötener, the woman who wrote the book, lay down arms. Yes. When will he return? What will we do? Just you wait until you hear from Monsieur Nobel. I wanted to see you address the peace congress. I wanted to hear what you had to say. Is that all? No. More than that, the memory of a conversation we had one night on the Champs Elysees. I'd like to finish it. I remember telling you that my plan to end wars was to make them so frightful that no nation would dare enter into one. Yes, I remember. Quite different from the disarmament and congress of nations that you proposed in your book. I believe what I wrote. My dear, I'm convinced of that. Your book caused me to ask myself many questions about peace. Do you think that nations, large and small, weak and strong, could find a solution? All the nations? Yes. Provided they were armed with another weapon, knowledge that is our greatest hope for the future. To spread knowledge is to spread well-being. Knowledge is the real weapon. And someday I will help the world to recognize it. Oh, Alfred. So, at last we finish our conversation on the Champs Elysees. The last time Baroness von Schutner saw Alfred Nobel alive. A few months later he died in his laboratory in San Remo, Italy. Well, what are you doing in Vienna? I have come to see you, Madame. You have heard of Monsieur Nobel's death? Yes, I know. I brought you a copy of this. What is it? His will, Madame. I thought you would want to see it. The capital shall constitute a fund annual interest on which shall be awarded as prizes to those persons who during the previous year have rendered the greatest services to mankind. To the person who has made the most important contribution in the realm of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and one part to the person who has done the most or best work for the brotherhood of nations. The abolition or reduction of standing armies as well as for the formalization. Peace, Congresses. It is an indomitable hope of the future. The most magnificent gesture that a private individual has ever had the desire or ability to make. The prize winners have included such men and women as Marconi, Madame Curie, Eugene O'Neill, Dr. Ralph Bunch, and Winston Churchill. People from all lands who have done a service for all mankind. Indeed, an inspiration in a fretful world. And the latest distinguished American name to be added to this truly distinguished list is that of General George C. Marshall, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1953. Ladies and gentlemen, the Hallmark Hall of Fame takes you now to Oslo, Norway. This is Carlic Norwegian Broadcasting Oslo Calling CBS on the Nobel Peace Prize award today, awarding speech and General Marshall acceptance speech adopted by demonstrations of three communists in the gallery. Dear Mr. Marshall, with deep feeling of sympathy and gratitude that we are here today, we meet you, a man whose whole career was that of a soldier. But when you had the position in your government you proposed and went in for the most constructive peaceful work we have seen in this century. You saw that there is no foundation for peace when there is economic chaos and misery amongst people. With these words, I have the honor and the great honor to have... the insignia of the Nobel Peace Prize, the diplomat, and the gold medal. Members of the Nobel Committee, I accept this honor with profound gratitude that has been conferred upon me by the Nobel Committee and I do it not merely for myself, more especially for the American people who alone made possible the authority and possible the funds which made the European recovery program a reality. Thank you very much. What could be a more moving tribute to the memory of Albert Nobel? And now here's Frank Goss from the Makers of Hallmark cards. If you'd like to delight your friends this Christmas with a card that's really a gift and decoration too, here's a bright idea. Choose new Hallmark Christmas stagecoach cards at a store where Hallmark cards are sold. You see the stagecoach is a most attractive card that comes folded flat in its own mailing envelope and can be set up to hold all the other cards your friends receive. The cab is a copy of an old English coach body complete with passengers who look like they stepped out of a Dickens novel. The coach is pulled by four pair of prancing white horses decked in festive gold and white trappings. Once you see the Hallmark Christmas stagecoach you'll know how decorative it will be on a mantle or window ledge or as a table centerpiece for holiday dining. What's more, there are two other Hallmark gift card styles to select from. The Hallmark Christmas sleigh, which is a replica of Santa's own and the Hallmark Christmas train. Each of these costs just one dollar including mailing envelope. And of course each has that Hallmark and crown. The familiar symbol that means you carry enough to send the very best. And now here again as Lionel Barrymore. Frank, I think those new combination card gift and decorations are a mighty fine new way to say Merry Christmas. It's hard to believe Christmas is almost here. It's such a wonderful time, Frank. I kind of wish we could always have Christmas two weeks away to look forward to. I always like to watch the change that comes over people this time of year. You can see it in folks' eyes and hear it as people hum some Christmas song, you know. And even in the crowded stores people seem to have more consideration of their fellow shoppers. And the whole town seems to dress up for Christmas. Windows and homes and streets all blossom out in holiday colors. And all that's drab and the unpleasant and the worries of the world seem to take a temporary back seat. Yes, I wish Christmas were always two weeks away. And speak weeks away I'm really looking forward to next week on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Without this annual event, Christmas wouldn't seem like Christmas to me. Nor would it to most people, Mr. Barrymore. For next week, the Hallmark Hall of Fame is proud to join you in presenting A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and to have you portray the immortal Scrooge for your 19th year. Well, thank you. Thank you, Frank. Thank you very much. And remember, you're also invited to the Hallmark Hall of Fame on television every Sunday, starring Miss Sarah Churchill, where next Sunday, Hallmark will again present the famous Amal and the Night Visitor. Until next week then, this is Lionel Barrymore saying, Good night. That are sold only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember a Hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Our producer director is William Frug. Our script tonight was written by E. Jack Newman. Alfred Nobel was played by John Hoyt. Featured in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Charlotte Lawrence, Jeanette Nolan, Ben Wright, William Conrad, Polly Bear, and Herb Butterfield. This is Frank Goss, saying good night to you until next week at the same time. When we'll again present Mr. Lionel Barrymore's traditional appearance as Scrooge in Charles Dickens of Christmas Carol. And the following week, Mr. Edward Arnold will star in the role of Henry Bird. And January 3rd, we'll tell you an exciting story about the famous cowboy, Tom Mix on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.