WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.000 Starring Orson Welles in The Great Man Votes, the cavalcade of America sponsored by DuPont, 00:15.000 --> 00:34.000 maker of better things for better living through chemistry. 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 Good evening, this is Orson Welles. 00:37.000 --> 00:43.000 This week in America we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of our charter of human liberties, 00:43.000 --> 00:45.000 the Bill of Rights. 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 And so we've chosen as our story that truly fine archeal picture, The Great Man Votes, 00:50.000 --> 00:56.000 the story of a little man, a little man who while destiny smiles became a great man 00:56.000 --> 01:00.000 because of his country and the liberties and rights he had in his country 01:00.000 --> 01:03.000 and because he understood the full value of those liberties and rights 01:03.000 --> 01:21.000 in terms of human dignity and human hope. 01:21.000 --> 01:27.000 The time of this story is any time, the place America and any large city in America. 01:27.000 --> 01:32.000 The scene is a dingy little frame house jammed in amongst the tall buildings of the city's downtown districts 01:32.000 --> 01:38.000 and in the parlor an obscure American citizen named Gregory Vance is talking with his two grandchildren. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 You leave Pro-River to miss you, you scourge to miss your opponent. 01:40.000 --> 01:45.000 Now Donald Lanes, Vance, you're attempting to tell me what he's got out of his expedition to Britain. 01:45.000 --> 01:49.000 Uh, he got pushed around by the pickets and the scots. 01:49.000 --> 01:52.000 Oh, no, no, not the pickets and the scots, the pickets and the scots. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 Grandpop, it's almost time you went to work, isn't it? 01:55.000 --> 01:56.000 Yes, I fear it is. 01:56.000 --> 01:59.000 You've no time for both you young scamps to be a-bed. 01:59.000 --> 02:00.000 Oh. 02:00.000 --> 02:01.000 What's the matter, Grand? 02:01.000 --> 02:05.000 I'm going to enter my room at the St. Donald's. If only there were a drop of my medicine about. 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 Your medicine? You mean that whiskey. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 Not tonight, it's time for you to go to work. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 Well, my little Florence nightingale, I suppose you're right. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 Uh, Grandpop. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Huh? 02:16.000 --> 02:22.000 Would you mind very much, I mean, what would you do if you were fired from your job? 02:22.000 --> 02:29.000 Joan, since your parents died and I resigned from the faculty of Harvard, I've lost many jobs. 02:29.000 --> 02:36.000 But if Bradley fired me from that night watchman's job, it'd be by all odds the worst job I'd ever lost. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 But what would you do? 02:38.000 --> 02:43.000 We can worry about that when it happens, Joan. Not as practical as your mother was. 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 Don't worry so much. 02:44.000 --> 02:48.000 Grand, won't you maybe go to the Angleys? 02:48.000 --> 02:54.000 Angleys? Those well-stuffed, cloth-headed lumps of pomposity. 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Just because by the unfortunate accident of birth they happened to be relatives. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 Besides, why do you think am I getting fired? 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Well, just don't let Iron Hat McCarty see you. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Iron Hat McCarty? What does that demagogue to do with my job? 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 Iron Hat McCarty is the boss of this ward. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 So he can do anything he likes in this ward. 03:12.000 --> 03:17.000 Do you rascals mean to say that you winged a brick band as Iron Hat McCarty? 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 Well, not exactly. 03:20.000 --> 03:25.000 Well, see, Iron Hat's kid, Daisy, and we did throw a rock at him. We pushed him into a tub of cement. 03:25.000 --> 03:30.000 I can't say that I approve, but on the other hand I can't find it in my heart. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 But why did you find such drastic action necessary? 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Well, he was calling names. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 Calling names? Calling who names? 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 You. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Me. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 He called you a drunken old bummer. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Defending the family honor. 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 You don't think your granddaddy is a drunken old bummer? 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 You only drink a quart a day. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Certainly. Right. Only a quart a day. 03:50.000 --> 03:54.000 So, so if you're fired tonight, you'll know why. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 I defy the deligage. I'm off to work. Where's my cane? 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 I'll make a sword of it and duel McCarty to the death. 04:03.000 --> 04:08.000 Lay on McCarty and damn be every member of your party. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Good evening to you, Iron Hat. Good evening, Gilley. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Good evening to you, Brad. 04:25.000 --> 04:30.000 I trust you'll be showing up at the polls to register your vote for the administration, as usual. Come out of Brad. 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 You know me, Iron Hat. It's a straight ticket. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Get to the point, McCarty. 04:34.000 --> 04:40.000 Yes, yes. A meeting of the city leaders awaits me, Brad. Therefore, I will speak briefly. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 You'll be in need of a new night watchman here tonight. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I've got a watchman. Gregory Vance. 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 I'm not sure he's up to his responsibilities, Brad, if you follow me. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 I ain't had any kicks on Vance's work. 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 His kids beat up Iron Hat's Davy and Maggie McCarty was fired. 04:56.000 --> 05:00.000 Any kids are likely to knock each other around, Iron Hat. I don't see why... 05:00.000 --> 05:07.000 Mr. Bradley, that's an attitude unworthy of you, especially considering that you're clogging the public streets with building materials. 05:07.000 --> 05:11.000 It's been a sad time I've had keeping the street commissioner off you. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 Your pleasure is my pleasure, Mr. McCarty. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 That's more the spirit, Brad. 05:15.000 --> 05:21.000 I'll find you a worthy replacement for Vance just as soon as I get back from my meeting with these important party leaders. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 McCarty, is it come gone get to your meeting? 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 So it's you, you hoodlums, grandfather. 05:26.000 --> 05:32.000 You vulture. Fly to your roots. Maybe you'll find some more bones to pick. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Get along with you before I tell him to tell you a cult. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 Come on, Iron Hat. Get in the car. You know you got his last yard. 05:37.000 --> 05:45.000 If I didn't have to attend an important party meeting, what else takes that up with your family, you bad party? 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 Sorry, Vance, but I have to sign you off. Not that I want to. 05:48.000 --> 05:53.000 No, the demagogue has spoken. You're only the echo. 05:53.000 --> 05:59.000 McCarty goes to an important meeting and I go to the ranks of the unemployed. 05:59.000 --> 06:07.000 Sieg, Semper, Gloria, Munde. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Who's handling the first ward this year? 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Iron Hat McCarty. 06:23.000 --> 06:27.000 Is McCarty the first ward president? 06:27.000 --> 06:34.000 I can only say, gentlemen, that I'm annoyed by this pinhead's tidiness on the eve of so important an election. 06:34.000 --> 06:41.000 An election which, if we are victorious, may well prove to be the forerunner of a national victory for our great party. 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 Charlie Dale, our publicity chief, will explain our plan of attack. 06:45.000 --> 06:53.000 Okay, Chief. Boys, you know the old saying, as Maine goes, so goes the nation. 06:53.000 --> 06:59.000 Now, get this. You've got a Maine right here in your own city. 06:59.000 --> 07:07.000 Since 1830, the 13th precinct of the first ward has always voted unanimous for the old party. 07:07.000 --> 07:15.000 Nine out of ten times, the rest of the precinct have fallen over each other, climbing on the bandwagon of the good old 13th. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 Now, here's what you do. 07:17.000 --> 07:24.000 Get your voters of the 13th precinct fled. Get them all together before the polls open. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 Organize a parade. 07:26.000 --> 07:31.000 March them to the polls in a body under the banners of the old party. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 That way, we prove they're voting for us. 07:34.000 --> 07:42.000 We splash it in the early morning headlines, the rest of the precinct fall in line, and the election is in the bank. 07:42.000 --> 07:52.000 And great stunt, Charlie, great stunt. The 13th is one of McCarty's precincts, as we Peter McCarty have been heard from. 07:52.000 --> 07:57.000 Here, sir. I was delayed in the pursuit of my duty, sir. 07:57.000 --> 08:03.000 I heard what you said, sir, and a splendid lot of voters I have for you. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 What? 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 What? But what, McCarty? 08:06.000 --> 08:14.000 But if you gentlemen knew my ward as well as I do, you'd be realizing that my 13th precinct is a very unique precinct indeed. 08:14.000 --> 08:19.000 Can you promise a unanimous vote? Speak up, McCarty. How many votes are there in the 13th? 08:19.000 --> 08:25.000 Well, at times there are a great many, sir, at noontime, but they only work there in the shops and the offices. 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 So we haven't as many registered voters as previous. 08:28.000 --> 08:33.000 Out with it, McCarty. How many? Get to the point, McCarty. How many? 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 One. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 McCarty, you know this fellow? 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Like a brother, sir. 08:40.000 --> 08:48.000 That's good, because if you fail to pledge his votes, McCarty, you're through, finished, washed up. Is that clear? You know your job. 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 Yes, sir. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 To vote him unanimous. 08:51.000 --> 09:00.000 Great. Tomorrow, one stalwart voter will uphold the traditions of our pioneering forefather's single-handed people. McCarty, what's his name? 09:00.000 --> 09:17.000 His name is Gregory Vance. 09:17.000 --> 09:28.000 You're listening to The Great Man Votes, starring Orson Welles, from the cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. 09:28.000 --> 09:33.000 As our play continues, we find Gregory Vance returning home from the job that he has just lost. 09:33.000 --> 09:38.000 Salutations, my gladiators. Are you awake? 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Is it morning, Gladys? 09:40.000 --> 09:47.000 No, not morning yet. No, I got off a little early. Mr. Bradley thought it would be nice if I could spend a little more time with both of you. 09:47.000 --> 09:51.000 You were fired, like we said you'd be. That's why you're home. 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 As you said I would be like is a preposition, not a conjunction, Donald Ainsley, then. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 Well, anyway, you were fired. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 You say fired I am, but why so glum? 10:00.000 --> 10:06.000 Again, if you expect me punished for handing him a card here beating, you'll be disappointed. 10:06.000 --> 10:11.000 We wish you would spank us, Grandpa. We'd feel better about going away. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Who said anything about going away? 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 Ainsley's. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Ainsley's? 10:15.000 --> 10:21.000 When you went to work, we ran away up to Park Avenue to look for them, because we were scared of Ironhats. 10:21.000 --> 10:26.000 They brought us home in a great big car, and they said they were coming back and bring some people with them. 10:26.000 --> 10:33.000 Yes, I think I see. You'd much rather live here than on Park Avenue, wouldn't you? 10:33.000 --> 10:40.000 Yes, Grant. Even if Uncle Chester did say I could have a pony. Oh, I love you lots more than any old pony. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Thank you, boy, thank you. 10:42.000 --> 10:49.000 Of course, it is nice on Park Avenue. If you live there, Grant, you might do some of those big things you used to talk about. 10:49.000 --> 10:54.000 What's that to do with it? We get along all right here, don't we? It's a nice house, comparatively speaking. 10:54.000 --> 11:03.000 Anyway, we have plenty to eat and wear. Not any too stylish, perhaps, but at least we've never been hungry, have we? 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 No, Grant. 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 Then you're both quite happy about everything, aren't you? 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 Yes, Grandpa, if you are. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 I'm not kidding anybody but myself. 11:12.000 --> 11:22.000 Everything's all right, Grant. You're not kidding. It's just that the other kids are so proud of their families, and we know they are worth two pins compared to you. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 Only they don't appreciate you around here. 11:25.000 --> 11:30.000 Joan, it's been a long time since anybody took the trouble to show me myself. 11:30.000 --> 11:36.000 Just for a minute there, I had the feeling you were your mother. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 See me now. 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 I wonder what she thinks. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 You think you could still be a great man if you wanted to. 11:45.000 --> 11:51.000 Yes, that's like her. And I'm not sure it's not right. 11:51.000 --> 12:00.000 You know, I've had a funny feeling all evening that Destiny is coming back from a long vacation. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Destiny! 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Donald, it's me, is it? 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 Remember, united we stand. Come in! 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Good evening to you, Mr. Dash. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 Ah, the demigod. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Say again your pardon, Mr. Vance, Mr. Maris. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Ah. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 I'll be your humble servant, Aloysius Francis Xavier McCarty. 12:14.000 --> 12:19.000 I must say it's extremely difficult to anticipate your chameleon whimsies. 12:19.000 --> 12:25.000 I forgive you, Mr. Vance, our family ties. The grandfather and the little ones were the heart. 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 Perhaps I've misjudged you, McCarty. 12:27.000 --> 12:32.000 What people think of me don't matter, as long as him and I for the grand works of the party. 12:32.000 --> 12:36.000 What's your feelings about that, Mr. Vance? 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 I'd hate to tell you with the children in the room. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 It was the loss of your job that's put the ranker in your heart. You feel different things. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 And I get it off my chest at the polls tomorrow, yes. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 Wait till I tell you why you were done out of that miserable job. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 It was beneath you, Mr. Vance. 12:51.000 --> 12:56.000 The fact has come recent to my attention that you were once an educator at Harrowmont College. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 True, though somewhat died to point. 12:58.000 --> 13:02.000 Says I, such a great man, must find his place in our educational system. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 You mean I might be a job of some kind? 13:04.000 --> 13:10.000 Listen, Mr. Vance, the house of learning would take on a new aroma just from your presence. 13:10.000 --> 13:13.000 Uh, how would a janitor's position strengthen? 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Oh, Mr. McCarty, I'd like nothing better. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 Wait a minute, Grant. Janitors aren't so great. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 But I need the job. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Yeah, and I bet Mr. Einhat McCarty needs your vote. 13:21.000 --> 13:29.000 Ah, the vote is nothing in itself, that. But the party sort of feels, uh, well, it's dead set on enlisting your intellectual support. 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 Now, if it's a teacher you want to be... 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 No, that's for ladies teaching. 13:34.000 --> 13:39.000 Uh-huh. Well, I was about to say, um, we might use your right handily on the school board. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Oh, Mr. McCarty, all right. 13:41.000 --> 13:42.000 Hold it, Grant. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 Uh, superintendent. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 What's that, Julie? 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 Oh, second lady. 13:47.000 --> 13:48.000 Oh, please, please. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.000 Commissioner of education, and that's the last offer. 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 If the job's good enough for the mayor's brother-in-law, it's good enough for you. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 Thank you, Grandpa. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 And that's the term you're oystered with, Mr. Vance. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 Ah. 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 If you'll vote the straight ticket. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 I always vote the straight ticket. 14:03.000 --> 14:07.000 Fine, fine. I'll have a car for you in the morning. A pleasant evening to you. 14:07.000 --> 14:10.000 And to you, Mr. McCarty. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.000 You're in, Grant, you're in. I was afraid that many would spoil. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 No, there's nothing to it. I can't possibly make a bargain with this man. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 But you said you always voted the straight ticket. 14:20.000 --> 14:28.000 So I do, but not McCarty's ticket. The casting of a vote is the casting of a belief, son. 14:28.000 --> 14:35.000 Someday you'll know that a man's vote is not something to be bought and sold. 14:35.000 --> 14:43.000 A man's vote is a man's faith in the future, in the future of his children and their children after them. 14:43.000 --> 14:47.000 It doesn't look like much of a future for us right now. 14:47.000 --> 14:50.000 Hey, Grant, don't let us down. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 What's that? 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 Well, I'm... 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 No, goodbye, Jupiter. I won't let you down. 14:55.000 --> 14:59.000 I told McCarty I'd vote the straight ticket and I'll vote the straight ticket. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Oh, we knew you'd come through. 15:01.000 --> 15:02.000 We always said so. 15:02.000 --> 15:05.000 Of course, Grant. You look swell riding in an automobile. It's... 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 I can take a hint. Go heat up an iron. I'll even press my pants. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 I'll put on a clean shirt in my other worm. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Oh, it's you. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Grant, it's Dandley. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 So it is. 15:20.000 --> 15:24.000 Welcome, Phoebe. Do you always walk in like that? 15:24.000 --> 15:29.000 Gregory Vance, you... you renegade. And I smell liquor here. 15:29.000 --> 15:34.000 Well, Phoebe, the years haven't changed you much. They couldn't. Hello, Chester. 15:34.000 --> 15:40.000 This is my attorney, Gregory. We're going to court in the morning with a paper to give us legal guardianship over these unfortunate children. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 It's obvious they're not getting a proper bringing up. 15:42.000 --> 15:46.000 A matter of fact, I just heard that Vance has been fired from his job. 15:46.000 --> 15:50.000 Has no visible means of support for the children. It'll be an open and shut case. 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 Why don't you ask the children whether they'd rather be brought up, Chester? 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 We'll let the court decide that, Gregory. 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 So far, so good, my benevolent Buttinsky. 15:59.000 --> 16:06.000 Merely adds to your report that I've just attained an importance and highly lucrative position. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 And you have your records. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 Delusions, I should think, Stransley. Possibly drunken. 16:11.000 --> 16:15.000 Oh, how you think. As of tonight, I am the new commissioner of schools. 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 If you don't believe me, it's at that Iron Hat McCartney. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 So McCartney's up to his old tricks, eh? 16:20.000 --> 16:23.000 That cheap war dealer couldn't deliver a garbage collector's job. 16:23.000 --> 16:28.000 Come, Miss Inslee, Mr. Inslee. My clients will call for Joan and Donald in the morning, Mr. Vance. 16:28.000 --> 16:33.000 Scram. Does that mean that it was all baloney, what I had said? 16:33.000 --> 16:38.000 Large as succulent as slices, I'm afraid. 16:53.000 --> 16:57.000 Ah! Ah, so there you are. Thank heaven. 16:57.000 --> 17:04.000 Iron Hat McCartney, I am fully aware that what you said last night cannot be held against you. 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 The same time, Iron Hat, I wish to point out... 17:07.000 --> 17:11.000 Never mind what I said last night. You're late for the parade. You're keeping the mayor waiting right now. 17:11.000 --> 17:12.000 Parade? 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 The parade to the polls in your honor. 17:14.000 --> 17:21.000 Indeed. Oh, seems that again I have misjudged you, McCartney. 17:21.000 --> 17:26.000 Dear fellows, you realize that the polls are directly across the street. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 It doesn't matter where they are, there's got to be a parade. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Come along now, will you, into the mayor's car with you. 17:31.000 --> 17:36.000 Tell the band to start playing. Here you are. Meet his honor. Your honor, this is Gregor Vance. 17:36.000 --> 17:37.000 Oh, yes. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 All right, here's the car with you, kids. The parade has got to start. 17:51.000 --> 17:55.000 Oh, boy, Graff. Now if Iron Hat comes through with that committment job... 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 I see here, McCartney, is it true that you... 17:57.000 --> 18:01.000 Oh, just ease yourself, sir. Disturb in the dual movements of your mind with such strife. 18:01.000 --> 18:05.000 Stop interrupting. If you've made promises to Vance that can't be fulfilled... 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Then I just glamp on how to vote, won't you, Graff? 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 And it'll be in all the papers how he wrote it. 18:09.000 --> 18:13.000 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now promises must be fulfilled. 18:13.000 --> 18:17.000 Promises in their small ways, just like planks in our platform. 18:17.000 --> 18:27.000 Isn't it true that the little planks are more substantial if reinforced by the written words? 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 Oh, yes. Well, give me your pen, McCartney. 18:30.000 --> 18:31.000 Yes, yes. 18:31.000 --> 18:32.000 Oh, yes. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 There. And now you know where you stand, Mr. Vance. 18:35.000 --> 18:36.000 Thank you. 18:36.000 --> 18:37.000 That is you, Ed. 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 But isn't some onlooker got it, son? 18:40.000 --> 18:44.000 A witness. Yours is the honor, McCartney. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 Why, I... Well, all right. There. 18:47.000 --> 18:48.000 Thank you. 18:48.000 --> 18:52.000 Well, here we are. Around the block and back at the polls. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 Ah, well, we'll be waiting, Mr. Vance. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 Your name, please? 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 Gregory Vance. Sign here, please. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 And, uh, booth right over there, please. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 There you go. 19:36.000 --> 19:40.000 I... I came, I saw. 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 Ha. I conquered. 19:42.000 --> 19:43.000 Stop singing. 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 No, son, that's Gregory Vance. 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 The scrubbiest Roman of them all. 19:51.000 --> 19:58.000 Gregory Vance. Magnified for a brief moment by a kind destiny. 19:58.000 --> 20:03.000 In a kind land is where greatness is within a people. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 Not within a man. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 A people and their faith in each other. 20:11.000 --> 20:18.000 Where any man who calls himself great is only looking at his shadow 20:18.000 --> 20:22.000 on the shoulders of those who've lifted him up. 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 On election day, his own feet carry him. 20:28.000 --> 20:33.000 On this day, the so-called great walk side by side 20:33.000 --> 20:37.000 with the shoulders that have held him high. 20:39.000 --> 20:45.000 Side by side, the strongest and the least. 20:47.000 --> 20:55.000 And those we sometimes call down and out are equal in the voting booth. 20:55.000 --> 21:00.000 Tomorrow, I'll be quite forgotten. 21:00.000 --> 21:05.000 A bit of shadow glory like the rest of you left his mark. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Only in a ballot box. 21:09.000 --> 21:13.000 I'll be no less a part of that total greatness. 21:14.000 --> 21:21.000 Because being even the least in a land where strength is so generous 21:21.000 --> 21:26.000 is greatness in itself. 21:29.000 --> 21:36.000 And as for faith, I know I shall never lack that. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Gregory! Gregory! 21:44.000 --> 21:50.000 Ah, yes sir, your honor. Meet my brother-in-law, St. James. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 Oh yes, well how do you do? Now if you'll excuse me, Commissioner. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Commissioner? 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Commissioner of Education, Chester. 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 Yes, as I mentioned last night. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 Yes, yes. Well, thank you and a happy good day to you, Commissioner. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 You must excuse me, I have a thousand other duties to perform. 22:05.000 --> 22:09.000 I'm sure you have. Good day, Chester. Nice to have seen you. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 Commissioner of Education? 22:11.000 --> 22:14.000 Oh, yee, Grant. You're still going to be a big man when you take over that job. 22:14.000 --> 22:21.000 Well, Joan, I wouldn't count on it too heavily. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 But Grant, the mayor said... 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 Yes, charming fellow, the mayor. 22:26.000 --> 22:44.000 You know, I'm rather sorry now I didn't vote for him. 22:44.000 --> 22:50.000 Thank you, Orson Welles. Ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments Mr. Welles will return to the microphone. 22:50.000 --> 22:53.000 But first, Gaine Whitman has some interesting information. 22:53.000 --> 22:58.000 Every child in school knows the blessings that are guaranteed us by the Bill of Rights. 22:58.000 --> 23:04.000 Every American worthy of the name, at some time or other, has counted them for the blessings they are. 23:04.000 --> 23:11.000 When we tick them off one by one, we are reciting Battles won down the long centuries of the struggle toward freedom. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 Think of them now. 23:13.000 --> 23:20.000 You are blessed by the declaration of brave men who lived and endured before you with the right to worship your God as you choose. 23:20.000 --> 23:31.000 You are guaranteed free speech and a free press in a world in which today men have been tortured, imprisoned, hanged, and shot for speaking their honest minds. 23:31.000 --> 23:37.000 You have the right to assemble peaceably with your friends, your neighbors, and petition your government. 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 You reserve the right to bear arms for the common defense. 23:40.000 --> 23:47.000 Without due process of law, no one may deprive you of your property, your liberty, your life. 23:47.000 --> 23:51.000 You have the right to a public trial before an impartial jury. 23:51.000 --> 23:55.000 No cruel or unusual punishment may be inflicted on you. 23:55.000 --> 24:02.000 And today, many of our fellow men beyond our shores are meeting with horribly cruel and unusual punishment. 24:02.000 --> 24:12.000 Perhaps the most liberal, the most American amendment of them all, is the one that says these rights, and the others granted, do not mean you have no further rights. 24:12.000 --> 24:17.000 Count your ten blessings, America, on the ten fingers of your hand. 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 Always men have known the ideal of liberty. 24:20.000 --> 24:26.000 The Bill of Rights made part of that ideal a fact, made men equal before the law. 24:26.000 --> 24:39.000 But it's steam and electricity and the mass production America introduced to the world that have provided us with enough food and clothing to go around, and so made the ideal a real possibility for the first time in history. 24:39.000 --> 24:44.000 There have always been two kinds of people on this earth of ours, the man of faith and the doubting Thomas. 24:44.000 --> 24:48.000 The doubting Thomas says things will always be the way they are. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 They'll never be better. 24:50.000 --> 24:58.000 The doubting Thomas says that women don't need any more washing machines, that there aren't going to be any more inventions, that we've reached the top. 24:58.000 --> 25:07.000 Men of faith and courage, on the contrary, know that while our present system is the most productive the world has known, it hasn't even begun to produce what it can. 25:07.000 --> 25:17.000 DuPont chemists have every reason to believe, for instance, that the present flow of new products represented by, say, nylon and neoprene is the merest trickle. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 Tomorrow the trickle can be a river. 25:20.000 --> 25:30.000 Where today chemistry is bringing us a few new plastics and fibers, tomorrow it can bring us hundreds, thousands of new products of which today nobody so much as these. 25:30.000 --> 25:40.000 Under the freedoms of the Bill of Rights, America will continue to create wealth known to no other nation, will continue production surpassed by no other nation. 25:40.000 --> 25:50.000 And to that future wealth and production as his share, the DuPont chemist will continue to add his better things for better living through chemistry. 25:50.000 --> 26:04.000 And now it is my pleasure to introduce to you again our star of the evening, Orson Welles. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Thanks, John. 26:06.000 --> 26:08.000 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 26:08.000 --> 26:13.000 You know, I used to be one of the original Cavalcade players a few years ago. 26:13.000 --> 26:17.000 I just want to say that it's a pleasure to be here again. 26:17.000 --> 26:24.000 I only hope that those of the Cavalcade audience who remember me enjoyed our play tonight as much as I enjoyed being in it. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 Thanks, Orson. I'm sure they did. 26:26.000 --> 26:30.000 Say, why don't you just carry on from here? You know your way around on Cavalcade. 26:30.000 --> 26:32.000 I most certainly ought to. 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 I know that at this point you were supposed to announce next week's show. 26:35.000 --> 26:37.000 Well, why can't you do it? 26:37.000 --> 26:41.000 Very well, John. I can't quarrel with you on such an auspicious occasion. 26:41.000 --> 26:51.000 Next week, ladies and gentlemen, Cavalcade will present an old favorite of mine and of every theater and moviegoer in America. 26:51.000 --> 26:57.000 It's Mark Conley's reverent and beautiful play, The Green Pastures. 26:57.000 --> 27:03.000 Cavalcade did it last year at the Christmas season, and because of the enthusiastic response of the listening audience, 27:03.000 --> 27:07.000 it seemed appropriate that they should do it again at Christmas time this year. 27:07.000 --> 27:14.000 I agree. I'll be listening myself. I hope you will, too. 27:14.000 --> 27:40.000 On tonight's program, Orson Welles appeared through the courtesy of Lady Esther 27:40.000 --> 27:48.000 and with Ray Collins by courtesy of RKO Pictures, where Mr. Welles is producing The Magnificent Ambersons. 27:48.000 --> 27:55.000 The orchestra and the original musical score were composed and directed by Robert Ambruster. 27:55.000 --> 28:00.000 Our play was adapted for radio by Peter Lyons. 28:00.000 --> 28:09.000 Every American citizen must become a partner with his government in order to push our war efforts to a victorious conclusion. 28:09.000 --> 28:14.000 We're in a war. We've got to fight it and finance it. 28:14.000 --> 28:20.000 It's going to cost billions and billions of dollars to guarantee victory for our democracy. 28:20.000 --> 28:26.000 Buy United States defense bonds and stamps regularly, as many as you can. 28:26.000 --> 28:32.000 Get them at your bank, post office, or savings and loan associations. 28:32.000 --> 28:42.000 Don't forget, next week, Cavalcade presents The Green Pastures with many of the original cast and the Hall Johnson Choir. 28:42.000 --> 28:49.000 On the Cavalcade of America, your announcer is John Heaston, sending best wishes from DuPont. 28:49.000 --> 29:17.000 The Green Pastures of America 29:17.000 --> 29:22.000 This is the Red Network of the National Broadcasting Company.