 Presenting Joan Fontaine in the Girl Lincoln Love with Walter Houston as Cavalcade's commentator on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by E.I. DuPont Dean Amores and Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Before our play this evening we want to tell you about a DuPont product. It was made especially for your home decoration. It's speed easy. A wall finish you can use right over wallpaper and other wall surfaces. It's a beautiful velvety finishes, finish that vanishes dreary dingy walls and makes them cheerful, bright and new. Speed easy is just what its name says. It's speedy and it's easy. All you do is thin speed easy with water and apply it with a large brush or roller. It dries in less than an hour. There are 11 clear beautiful pastel shades from which to choose. Just remember it's speed easy and it's made by DuPont. Tonight in the sixth in Cavalcade's fall series of great stars in great radio plays, the DuPont company presents Joan Fontaine as Anne Rutledge in The Girl Lincoln Love. In coming weeks Cavalcade will bring you Clark Gable, Charles Lawton, Loretta Young and many others. Now to raise the curtain on this evening's play here is your Cavalcade commentator Walter Houston. Good evening. Tonight our Cavalcade stars a very lovely young lady, a brilliant actress and Academy Award winner Joan Fontaine. Our Cavalcade plays a love story. In some respects it is like a great many love stories but in many respects it is also different. The characters for instance or I should say the boy and girl are already well known to you and even before the first line is spoken you will anticipate the ending of the story because its ending is a legend you'll find in any history book and the ending is not a happy one. The boy in tonight's Cavalcade is a blinkin', age 24 tall straight strapping lat and with no thoughts of ever becoming president. The girl of course is Anne Rutledge and the story concerns there are few happy moments together but mostly our plays about Anne Rutledge herself and her father and mother and brothers and sisters and her everyday life and the qualities that made her the girl Lincoln loved. Now on behalf of the DuPont company I take pleasure in presenting Joan Fontaine as Anne Rutledge with John McIntyre as Abe Lincoln in Norman Corwin's play The Girl Lincoln Loved on the Cavalcade of America. Let me tell you about the girl humming that tune. Her name is Anne Rutledge. Long time ago she lived with her mother and father and seven brothers and sisters in a tavern in New Salem, Illinois. Her name is familiar to you because a great man fell in love with her and never got over it. Otherwise you wouldn't have known about her. She was a bit prettier than average but still very much like a lot of other girls you know yourselves. Anne was not a phantom or a legend. She was a girl. She was happy. She was sad and angry and coy and gentle and wise. She had fears. She had dreams and a disease things that our story is about. First of all Anne Rutledge was a girl. Mother. Yes Anne. Can I ask you something important? Can it wait until we do the dishes? Oh yes I guess it can wait all right. Well tell me what is it? Don't laugh at me now. Come do you want to ask me or don't you? Mother what's it like to be in love? What? Why Anne? Now why should a thought like that be in your head at this hour of the morning? Because I've been thinking about it all night. You have? Yes I just couldn't sleep and I kept listening to the crickets and the frogs and the house creaking and did you know there's a screech owl down in the glen somewhere? No. There is because I heard it. I also heard past Norrin and I heard that myself. Towed morning it got very still and it seemed everything went to sleep. Even the crickets and the frogs and then I could hear my heart beating slow like this. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. So slow I was afraid it would stop. Maybe you shouldn't even before you went to bed Anne. Oh no I felt fine. Only I I kept wondering how it must be to hear all those things when you're when you're in love. I mean when a man's in love with you. Now see here Anne you're too young to be bothering your head with thoughts the likes of that. Too young I'm 17 ain't I? How old were you when you fell in love? 16. Well there mother what's it like? Oh it's it's just what you suppose it's like. Just what you imagine it's like. If it's what I imagine then it's like the way the leaves stood all last night and the little sounds kept coming from far away or it's like how the hay smelled at Tuttle's farm just after they finished mowing last week. Like warm blankets and soft pillows when you're all snug in bed and it's blowing a blizzard outside and there's icicles on the windows. Is it is it anything like that mother? Yes Anne sometimes when it's unspoiled that's the nice part of love. The nice part? But what can there be bad about being in love? Oh some things some things I hope you'll never find out about. Yes Anne Rutledge was just an average girl and she was happy. Oh who there? Do you mind my stopping? Why should I mind? Well because I stopped just to look at you. Then I do mind John McNeil. It's so hard to see your eyes when I'm looking at the road. Oh I am. You're blushing. Am I? Yeah. Well that becomes you too. I'm not blushing it's just the heat of the day. I'm very warm that's all. Oh whatever it is you're awful pretty. I'm glad you think so John. Anne would you mind if I kissed you? Kiss me? Yes. No. I'm sorry. I mean no I wouldn't mind. John want to know something? What? That was the first time in my life I've ever been kissed. Want to know something there? Well here's the second. Yes Anne Rutledge was a happy girl but sometimes she was sad. Good night. Good night. Good night Judge Green. Good night. Good night Mr. Lincoln. I must say Lincoln's a funny man. I swear I never did hear anybody tell stories the way he tells them. He don't have to wet his whistle to do it either. He's a fine Christian gentleman Mr. Lincoln. Did you hear the one he told about it? Say Anne what are you looking so glum about? Didn't you think that bear story of Lincoln's was funny? I wasn't listening to Mr. Lincoln. I'm going upstairs to bed. Good night mother. Good night dear. Good night father. Good night. Good night. Please bless mother and father and their children and John McNeil and please make John change his mind and then come back to New Salem as he promised me would because I'm so lonely since he went back east. Dear God make him come back to me. I love him so much. So very much. Anne Rutledge was a girl happy and sad. She had a spirit. He's easy there. He's bleeding bad. Give him air. Give the poor man some air. That's a nasty cut on his head there. He's coming to. He'll be all right. Oh my head. Well now is there anyone else curious to give an opinion about my drinking too much? There is. Just speak up and I'll pile him in the corner with Mr. Williams and the rest of the wreckage. Maybe I'll teach you to let me and the boys drink in peace without no preaching as to how a gentleman should conduct himself in a tavern. Now listen here Jack Armstrong is proprietor of this tavern I have a right to. Rutledge. Rutledge. You see what I just done to William. Yes and also what you've done to my good chair. Well I'll break another one over your head if you don't shut up. Just because you can lick everybody in town you don't have to bully and strut all over the place. I wish I were younger Armstrong. I'd take you on. Why you bald headed old cute Rutledge. I'll take anybody on young and old together. I'll take them on in pairs I will. Ain't a man in town's got guts enough to stand up to me. That's the right answer. Hey ma Rutledge some more of this liquor and quick from a powerful thirsty man. Well drink yourself to death if you want to. Sooner the better for us. I think you're doing taking this whiskey away from you made enough trouble for one night and come on. Just a minute. My girl. Just let go of me a filthy pig. Hey hey hey that is that hurt. I meant it to her. You did I will look here now. That hurt too didn't it. You you you wouldn't have dared on that if you was a man. If you was a man I wouldn't have to. Yeah well. No man dares stand up to me that way. Oh yes I would. All right who name him. Have you tried a blinkin. Linkin. That long legged floppy junkie. I'd like to see you call him that to his face. You would would you well come around tomorrow by the store say around the middle of the morning. I'll be there. It'll be a great pleasure to see him carry you out. And what leads was a girl she could be happy and sad and angry and gentle. Aren't you getting too much sun on your Mr. Lincoln. Won't make much difference to a face like mine. I'm shining on the water that can burn too. Never heard of the Sangamon River burning anybody. All right but don't say I didn't warn you for anything concerning my looks I'm afraid I'll have to take full responsibility. You're not bad looking Mr. Lincoln. Like bother your eyes Miss Aimee. No I can see fine I I like your look. Thank you you're being very kind. Aren't you going to say anything about mine. You know I'm not very good at expressing myself on things I feel very deeply about. You feel very deeply about my looks. About you Miss Anne. No suppose I have any right to hope but I do nevertheless. I hope that someday I might perhaps be worthy of your affection. But in the meantime though I hope you'll just let me keep on seeing you which is let me take you for walks set with me again like this on the bank of the river. Mr. Lincoln. Yes. How is your memory. Why all right I guess. Do you remember how you threw Jack Armstrong the time he came down to the store looking for a fight. Oh yes. And how you got your arms around him and spun him head over here. Well why don't you try putting your arms around me. But leave out the spin. You're listening to Joan Fontaine as Anne Rutledge in The Girl Lincoln Loved on the Cavalcade of America sponsored by E.I. DuPont dinners and company maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Now as we continue our play here is Walter Houston. The girl Lincoln loved a bit prettier than average but still very much like a lot of other girls. A girl who was by turns sad and happy who loved life and understood it. Who was sensible and sensitive. All these are not very exceptional traits. But then Anne was not an exceptional girl just an average girl. But a girl loved by a blink. Yes. Anne Rutledge was gentle. She was also wise. Yes Peter. Which do you think is the best. A soldier or a sailor. I'm sure I don't know. That's been worrying me. Well now let me read please. Sister. What. Do sailors get seasick. Can't you see I'm trying to read Peter. I only wanted to know I was only asking. Oh I'm sorry Peter I just trying to read. What do you want to know. Just say there's good seasick. Well I shouldn't think so. Not good sailors anyhow. Why'd you ask. I was just wondering what I'd be when I grew up. A soldier or a sailor. I think I'll be a soldier. Why. So I can lick all the old Indians and they'll run away when they see me coming. Come over here Peter. Have you been listening to old Dan Potter. Well he killed twenty two old Indians with his bare fists. Because Indians are to be trusted and they're no good know how. Dan Potter is just an old liar. The only Indians he ever saw were those old trappers that come to trade every winter at Malcolm's store. Get the idea out of your head that Indians are no good know how. Anyway know how is no word anyhow. But wouldn't the Indians run away if they saw a soldier coming with a gun loaded. I doubt it. Ask Abe Lincoln some time about the Black Hawk war. He was a captain in the war and he didn't see any Indians running away from white men. In fact to the contrary. Yes but white men are afraid to die. Nobody likes to die. Red or white or yellow or black. Just like Mr. Lincoln says the two most unpopular things in the world are not being free and being dead. Gosh being dead is worse than anything. I wouldn't be sure. Everybody has to die sometime. There's nothing they can do about it. But there's plenty a man can do about not being free. Yes. You say there's have to learn how to swim. Mrs. Rutledge. Yes doctor. You'll have to keep and as quiet as possible. She mustn't get out of bed. Was it that serious doctor. Yes. Will she be a long time getting well. Mrs. Rutledge. And she's not going to get well. Oh no. You might as well know now. How long will it be doctor. It might be two days. Might be two weeks. I'm terribly. I'm sorry. I'm going into her. I've told you nothing now. Yes. Do I look all right. Yes. I'll wait here. There. Are you comfortable. Is everything. You're going to be all right. Doctor says so. He says so. You're going to be all right. You believe him. Why of course. What a question. Has a been here since yesterday. He came last night but you were asleep and he didn't want to disturb you. Even if I'm asleep please wake me up when he comes mother. No. Not if you're asleep dear. The doctor says you need all. I'll get the first one I need please. I want to see you when he comes. Yes dear. Of course. I'm sorry mother. I didn't mean to sound cross there. There. Now lie back. Here. This will. Cool you. You see. I've got to talk to a because. Well you know how I feel about him. Yes I am. I know. I love him. I love I got to see him now. Or never mother. You mustn't talk so much and rest. Let me just look at you and wish hard. Wish. Wish so hard that nothing can stand up against me. Like a like a tornado blowing the sky right off its hinges. Then I'd wish away your fever. I'd wish. What are you going to do when I'm gone. When you're gone. What I do when I'm 80s no concern to me right now. Love me. I am. I know you once told me you weren't very good at expressing yourself on things you feel deeply about. Yes. That's it. If you love me go on and and be the man I know you can be. Go on because it's what I want you to be if I was with you. Be a big man and I'll never even be a little man without you. I'll be nothing. Abraham Lincoln. I know you. I know you're better than you know yourself. You agree for me a bit. But you'll be all right after a while when you find out that grieving doesn't help. Hey. If it's at all possible for me to be near you after I'm gone. If in any way I go. I will come to you. I will. Please. You're tiring yourself. And when your mind's at peace and you go back to your books and you'll be great because you just naturally made that I don't want to be great. I just want you to be well again. You get some rest now. You're going to be all right. I'll stay right here by your side. Please. Now my sweet. Yes. That's right. Just rest now. You won't leave me with you. No dear. I won't leave you. I'll never leave you. Yes. Anne Rutledge died and all that was young and gay enabled Lincoln died with her. And a sadness came into Lincoln's eyes that never left him. Joan Fontaine and John McIntyre and the members of tonight's cavalcade cast are thanks. Often cavalcade is told stories of heroes. Many of them war heroes. But war also has heroes who never fire a gun. But the nature and worth of their heroism is unquestioned. I am speaking specifically about 14 soldiers of our army. The staff sergeant for corpus seven privates and two technicians who were awarded the Legion of Merit not long ago for a dangerous assignment which never took them near the line of fire. This is the story. Our troops in several countries have suffered terribly from sand fly fever. The carrier of the disease is a small fly in eight to an inch long. It's bite is painful. Then two or three days later the soldier who has been bitten developed symptoms like those of a severe case of influenza. His temperature goes up to 102 even 104. He may be out of action for two weeks. In an attempt to control sand fly fever the office of the surgeon general called for volunteers. The 14 men who volunteered had not only courage but willingness to sacrifice their health perhaps even their lives for their fellow men. One group received injections of the blood from the other men with the fever. The second group submitted to bites from the infected sand flies. Thanks to these 14 men the army gained knowledge of sand fly fever and brought it under control. But let gain Whitman tell you more about it. Now protection against sand flies and other disease carrying insects is secured through chemical insect repellents used externally. One of the most effective being dimethyl phthalate. Dimethyl phthalate drives away mosquitoes, flies, fleas, gnats and chiggers as well as sand flies. It works to a certain degree on ticks. Unlike citronella the old standby dimethyl phthalate has next to no odor. It looks like water but applied to the skin it gives protection for as long as six hours. Spray down the clothing it lasts nearly a week. One of the essential ingredients of dimethyl phthalate is also essential to the manufacture of DuPont Dulux enamel which in peacetime gives durability and lasting beauty to such things as refrigerators, automobiles, electrical equipment, furniture and machinery as well as the woodwork and walls of your home. The reason you have difficulty in buying DuPont Dulux is that dimethyl phthalate is protecting the health of our armed forces not only against sand fly fever but against malaria, dysentery and dengue fever. After the war you will not only have Dulux again but you will have new insect repellents made better with dimethyl phthalate one of many compounds manufactured by DuPont for better things for better living through chemistry. Now here is Cavalcade's commentator Walter Houston. Next Monday evening we have Cavalcade will have the proud honor of welcoming the return to the entertainment field of one of America's foremost motion picture stars Clark Gable who served with distinction in the United States armed air forces. Next week Clark Gable will enact his first role since his return to civilian life, the role and the most fitting role it is will be that of a fellow fighting man submarine commander Gilmore who fought and died above and beyond the call of duty. Our play is based on three words and the man who spoke them. Three words that have already become history and legend. Take her down. Around these three words is woven one of the most glorious stories of courage to come from this or any other war. I am sure your anticipation is as great as ours to hear Clark Gable in his first radio appearance in next week's Cavalcade. Take her down. Thank you and good evening. May I repeat Walter Houston's invitation to join us next Monday when DuPont will again bring you another great play and a famous star. Next Monday night on the Cavalcade of America, Clark Gable asked commander Gilmore in the story that has become a legend. Take her down. Joan Pontein appeared on tonight's Cavalcade through the courtesy of David O. Salznick and will soon be seen in a reissue of the Salznick Academy award-winning picture Rebecca. Music was composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. May I take this opportunity also to remind every eligible woman between the ages of 20 and 36 that the Navy still needs more personnel. The girl who joins the waves in the next several weeks can be assured of immediate active duty and a wide range of opportunity. You do not obligate yourself by finding out. You may call for information at your nearest Navy recruiting office or write to Waves Washington 25 D.C. for the free booklet the story of you in Navy blue. This is Gain Whitman sending best wishes from Cavalcade sponsor E.I. DuPont Dean Amores and Company of Wilmington, Delaware and invite you to be with us next week for Clark Gable in Take her down. This is the national broadcasting company.