WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:23.440 The Cabalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through 00:23.440 --> 00:31.520 chemistry, presents Francis Langford, June Lockhart, and Tony Romano in GI Valentine. 00:31.520 --> 00:36.200 Most of the products recently developed by chemists are doing more jobs now. There is 00:36.200 --> 00:41.320 one new discovery, however, that is available to help you keep your home bright and cheerful. 00:41.320 --> 00:45.280 It is Speed Easy, the new DuPont wall finish that so many people are using to paint over 00:45.280 --> 00:51.560 faded soiled wallpaper. DuPont Speed Easy covers in one coat. It dries in an hour. It 00:51.560 --> 00:56.560 comes in eight attractive colors. And DuPont Speed Easy is inexpensive, too. You can do 00:56.560 --> 01:02.080 over an average room for less than three dollars. Tonight, February 14th, Cavalcade delivers 01:02.080 --> 01:06.760 a valentine to the home front from the hearts of our servicemen and women overseas. The 01:06.760 --> 01:11.720 bearer of this valentine is Francis Langford, who has recently returned from a 50,000 mile 01:11.720 --> 01:16.400 entertainment tour through the theaters of war. Francis Langford, with Bob Hope, Tony 01:16.400 --> 01:20.320 Romano, and other great troopers, carried song and laughter to more than five million 01:20.320 --> 01:25.000 of our men and women on fighting fronts from the Aleutians to Sicily. Assisted by Tony 01:25.000 --> 01:30.200 Romano and his indispensable guitar, and with June Lockhart as a pilot sweetheart, Ms. Langford 01:30.200 --> 01:35.520 gives us an account written by Frank Gabrielson, the highlights of those 50,000 miles of singing 01:35.520 --> 01:40.540 through the war, telling us particularly of American women at war, of the WACs, the Red 01:40.540 --> 01:46.000 Cross workers, and the Gallant Army nurses. DuPont presents GI Valentine, starring Francis 01:46.000 --> 01:53.000 Langford with Tony Romano and June Lockhart on the Cavalcade of America. 02:16.000 --> 02:23.000 I will come back, dry those blue eyes. I will come back someday. You will be in my 02:23.000 --> 02:30.000 memory every hour that I'm away. I will come back someday. You will be in my memory every 02:53.000 --> 03:00.000 hour that I'm away. 03:23.000 --> 03:30.000 Dear, just a little girl, dear, just a little girl, dear, just a little girl, dear, just 03:53.000 --> 04:00.000 remember you shouldn't feel so blue. There are so many others who feel the way you do. 04:00.000 --> 04:07.000 I won't say when, but we'll meet again. Honey, try and please don't forget me. I'll be there 04:30.000 --> 04:37.000 for you. Don't cry. 04:42.520 --> 04:46.920 Now let's go back to the summer of 1942 and a phone call. Hello? 04:46.920 --> 04:48.720 Miss Langford? Yes. 04:48.720 --> 04:54.480 This is the USO Camp Shows. We'd like you and Bob Hope to make a tour of bases in Alaska 04:54.480 --> 04:56.800 and the Aleutians. What do you say? 04:56.800 --> 05:03.800 What would any woman say? I'd love it, but what do I wear? 05:07.640 --> 05:11.840 On your forthcoming trip for the purpose of building morale in the armed forces, you are 05:11.840 --> 05:17.880 advised to take a fur coat, slacks, heavy sweaters, woolen socks, and woolen underwear. 05:17.880 --> 05:24.880 If desired, one heavy, practical, warm wool dress may be taken. So that was the wardrobe 05:28.120 --> 05:32.800 I took. And the first night we were in Alaska, we were asked to a party at the officer's 05:32.800 --> 05:39.680 club in Fairbanks. They wore their uniforms and I was the glamour girl who was supposed 05:39.680 --> 05:45.840 to uplift morale. I felt like Cinderella at five after twelve. Seriously though, it was 05:45.840 --> 05:50.920 wonderful to see those girls in their neat dress uniforms. That same afternoon I'd seen 05:50.920 --> 05:54.920 them working endlessly in their wards. But tonight... 05:54.920 --> 05:59.880 You see, Frances, we work quite hard and we don't get much chance to remember life like 05:59.880 --> 06:06.880 it was. And we hope it's going to be again. So when we get an excuse like this dance, 06:06.880 --> 06:13.120 well we go all out feminine. Personally, I'm in this war so I can call my lipstick as well 06:13.120 --> 06:20.120 as my soul my own. 06:22.600 --> 06:28.160 That nurse was up before light the next morning and worked all day at the hospital. Besides 06:28.160 --> 06:33.040 her regular duties, she assisted at an emergency operation. She wrote four letters home for 06:33.040 --> 06:38.120 wounded men. She kitted constantly with the men in the convalescent ward and lighted several 06:38.120 --> 06:43.640 cigarettes for a bombardier from the Aleutians who had lost both arms. She went to bed that 06:43.640 --> 06:49.520 night dead tired, considering it an average day. I don't think anybody's going to get 06:49.520 --> 06:56.080 her lipstick and I know nobody will ever get her soul. 06:56.080 --> 07:00.960 We went to Alaska about a week, flying to as many camps as we could. We played to audiences 07:00.960 --> 07:05.320 of thousands and we played to little groups of bearded men at out of the way landing fields 07:05.320 --> 07:09.600 hacked out of the forest. In some of these places the men hadn't seen a woman in over 07:09.600 --> 07:16.600 a year. From Alaska we flew to the Aleutians, to Nak-Nak, Cold Bay, past Dutch Harbor, on 07:17.120 --> 07:22.080 out to Umnak. At Umnak they told me I was the first white woman ever on the island and 07:22.080 --> 07:26.920 everyone began calling me the Virginia Dare of Umnak. There wasn't a building large enough 07:26.920 --> 07:32.080 to hold all the men so we gave our show outdoors in the pouring rain. They had built a kind 07:32.080 --> 07:36.640 of stage for us but naturally there were no seats. The men in the offices just squatted 07:36.640 --> 07:43.640 down in the mud to watch us. And what an audience they were. 07:43.640 --> 07:50.640 You made me sigh for I didn't want to tell you, I didn't want to tell you. I want some 07:50.640 --> 07:57.640 love, that's true, yes I do, indeed I do, you know I do. Give me, give me, give me what 07:57.640 --> 08:04.640 I cry for. You know you've got the brand of kisses that I die for. You know you made me 08:04.640 --> 08:19.640 love you. 08:34.640 --> 08:41.640 Tony, that kid there, he's crying so. Homesick probably. Bring him around afterwards, 08:41.640 --> 08:48.640 huh Tony? Okay, let's take it again. A one, a two. You made me. 08:57.640 --> 09:02.840 Well, congratulations Miss Langford, a great show. Thanks Colonel, I hope the boys liked 09:02.840 --> 09:08.040 it. Liked it, they loved it. Francis, Francis, can I see you a minute? Yes Tony, will you 09:08.040 --> 09:12.520 excuse me a minute gentlemen? Why certainly Miss Langford. I found the kid you wanted 09:12.520 --> 09:19.680 to see Francis. Oh good. Fanny, this is Eddie Riggs. Hello Eddie. How do ma'am? You better 09:19.680 --> 09:24.760 call me Francis, ma'am really makes me feel like Virginia Dare. Yes ma'am. You're in 09:24.760 --> 09:30.480 the Air Force I see. Well, meteorology, we take care of the weather. You must have your 09:30.480 --> 09:36.240 hands full up here. This rain. Two hundred sixty one six tenths inches a year. Is it 09:36.240 --> 09:43.240 interesting work? Yes ma'am. Francis. Say where are you from Eddie? Chute, Kansas. You 09:43.240 --> 09:46.880 know I'll probably be in Kansas this winter. We play camps all over the country at home 09:46.880 --> 09:52.000 you know. Say would you like me to call up your folks and tell them I saw you? That'd 09:52.000 --> 09:56.320 be a bother for you. Oh no, I'm making calls for a lot of the boys. Well if you really 09:56.320 --> 10:02.240 could be fine. Just look in the chute phone book, numbers under Dr. George Riggs and ask 10:02.240 --> 10:09.640 for ma'am. Mrs. Riggs I mean. I certainly will Eddie. I'm sorry my song upset you. 10:09.640 --> 10:15.600 I liked your song honestly. What were you crying about? Sorry you noticed. Didn't think 10:15.600 --> 10:21.560 anybody would in the rain. Anything wrong at home Eddie? No, everybody's fine. Otherwise 10:21.560 --> 10:26.640 I'd have got a letter from Ma. She's pretty busy so she doesn't write much unless something 10:26.640 --> 10:31.480 special's happened. Of course Pa hasn't got time to write his prescriptions hardly. When 10:31.480 --> 10:36.200 I call your mother Eddie, shall I tell her you might like a letter even if there isn't 10:36.200 --> 10:43.520 much to say? Just say you saw me. I think a lot about home. That wasn't why I was crying. 10:43.520 --> 10:49.520 Why then? I guess it's just the idea you folks come on all this way to make us laugh and 10:49.520 --> 11:05.280 feel better. It's great to know people at home haven't forgotten all about us. Last 11:05.280 --> 11:11.160 June we started out again, this time for England. Bob and Tony and I. We were there six or seven 11:11.160 --> 11:16.360 weeks giving shows at American camps all over the British Isles. For the first time I had 11:16.360 --> 11:21.880 the sense of seeing a whole country at war. For every shortage we have at home, the English 11:21.880 --> 11:27.200 have a dozen. It's pretty hard to be complacent about a war when you've had it in your own 11:27.200 --> 11:35.040 backyard and the English have. What I remember most vividly about England is the day we spent 11:35.040 --> 11:40.160 at one of the American air bases there. Before sunrise we stood on the field and watched 11:40.160 --> 11:45.640 45 fortresses take off on an undisclosed mission. We counted them out one by one as they moved 11:45.640 --> 11:59.040 down the runways and took the air. Forty-five went out. How many would come back? That afternoon 11:59.040 --> 12:04.000 we again stood beside the runways to wait for the returning planes and count them in. 12:04.000 --> 12:08.160 We weren't the only ones that waited. There were the ground crews. There were officers 12:08.160 --> 12:12.680 anxious to learn the results of the mission. There were a few wives and sweethearts waiting. 12:12.680 --> 12:18.640 And there was a row of ambulances, all waiting. Just before the scheduled time of return, 12:18.640 --> 12:24.200 the suspense gets almost unbearable. Everyone on the field gets it too. Next to me was a 12:24.200 --> 12:30.840 girl in a red cross workers outfit. She lit a cigarette and I could see her hands shake. 12:30.840 --> 12:35.240 This waiting can be tough, huh? Every time I come here I swear it's the last time. I saw 12:35.240 --> 12:40.440 all 45 go out this morning. And you know, I have a hunch they're all 45 coming back. 12:40.440 --> 12:45.680 Well, figure on a 5% loss and you'll be about right. Two or three planes probably. Say, 12:45.680 --> 12:50.560 you connected with this base? Only unofficially. I'm engaged to the navigator on the fortress 12:50.560 --> 12:57.440 Popeye. And the Popeye sounds unbeatable. If they don't run out of spinach, meaning luck. 12:57.440 --> 13:02.160 Why is everybody so quiet all of a sudden? Well, they're just about due back, if nothing 13:02.160 --> 13:22.880 went wrong. Listen. And they were coming back. Fortress after fortress. One, two, then five, 13:22.880 --> 13:30.720 then ten of them. Are any of those the Popeye? No. Then it was 20 of them, and 25 and 30. 13:30.720 --> 13:39.120 Is the Popeye here yet? Not yet. Then it was 32, 35, 37, 38. Are you positive the Popeye 13:39.120 --> 13:48.560 hasn't landed? Positive. Oh look, look here comes 39 and 40. But that's not him. How can 13:48.560 --> 13:54.600 you tell from this distance? I know his plane. After number 40 hit the field they seemed to 13:54.600 --> 14:03.800 stop coming. Oh, they can't have lost five. No, no, here's another and one more behind 14:03.800 --> 14:12.600 it. That's 42. That's three lost. Well, that's not too bad. Is his plane one of those two? 14:12.600 --> 14:19.040 I can't tell yet. Oh wait, there are another two back of them. That's 44. Out of four, 14:19.040 --> 14:30.960 then it's bound to be the Popeye. Well, it looks like they finally ran out of spinach. 14:30.960 --> 14:38.000 Oh come on, I'm sure they'll make it. They'd have been here long ago. Anyway, they all 14:38.000 --> 14:47.440 don't come back. Well, thanks for waiting with me. I'm sorry. Well, every trip somebody's 14:47.440 --> 14:55.440 left looking at the empty sky. Why, why one out of 45 is a very good percentage of... 14:55.440 --> 15:20.480 Listen, do you hear something? Oh, it's the Popeye. They found their spinach. The cavalcade 15:20.480 --> 15:25.600 of America sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, 15:25.600 --> 15:31.160 is bringing you Frances Langford with Tony Romano and June Lockhart in GI Valentine, 15:31.160 --> 15:35.120 a firsthand account of Miss Langford's travels on three continents to sing for our fighting 15:35.120 --> 15:40.200 men and women. She has told us how with Bob Hope and Tony Romano, she visited our forces 15:40.200 --> 15:43.920 in Alaska, the Aleutians, and the British Isles. From England they headed for North 15:43.920 --> 15:50.720 Africa where Frances resumes her story. Africa was everything I expected, but more so. More 15:50.720 --> 15:56.440 heat, more sand, more strangeness. At our first show there, the temperature was something 15:56.440 --> 16:02.200 over 130 in the shade, but there wasn't any shade. After the show, we had about two hours 16:02.200 --> 16:06.680 before we left. I was tired and wanted to rest, so some wax station there took me to 16:06.680 --> 16:15.440 their barracks so I could have a nap. A nice long nap. How long are dresses now? How about 16:15.440 --> 16:19.560 these ration points? Can you or can't you get nail polish? Dresses are about to... 16:19.560 --> 16:24.840 here. Can you get nail polish? Well, that's not too tough. But face tissue is murder, 16:24.840 --> 16:29.040 huh? Murder is right. You know, when I get out of this girl's army, I'm just going to 16:29.040 --> 16:34.720 a beauty parlor and stay. Who's the big star of entertainment now, Frances? President Company 16:34.720 --> 16:45.080 accepted. Well, I'd say Sinatra. Who? Frank Sinatra. What does he do? Why, he's a singer. 16:45.080 --> 16:52.280 I never even heard of him. Me neither. Shows you. Time goes by. Frances, why aren't more girls 16:52.280 --> 16:56.840 at home joining the wax? Oh, do we have to talk sharp? Well, I want to know. Why aren't 16:56.840 --> 17:01.680 they, Frances? Oh, pay no attention to Ryan Frances. She thinks it's smart to gripe. She's 17:01.680 --> 17:05.840 only the best soldier in the outfit. What's tough about that? Well, last month she could 17:05.840 --> 17:09.640 have had to leave home. She wouldn't take it. Why should I go where I can't get face tissue 17:09.640 --> 17:14.480 or bobby pins? That's too tough. Don't let her kid you, Frances. She's crazy about the 17:14.480 --> 17:20.480 outfit. Say, Frances, you got a picture of yourself you can spare? Sure, Ryan. I'll autograph 17:20.480 --> 17:26.120 one for you. Oh, no, no. Don't sign it. I'll do that. You'll sign my name on the picture? 17:26.120 --> 17:30.880 No, my own. I want to send it to a guy I'm corresponding with. Then it's somebody you've 17:30.880 --> 17:37.800 never met. Yeah. His lodge writes to wax. But what'll happen when you meet him? How is 17:37.800 --> 17:41.720 he going to like you signing my picture? Oh, he won't have any kid coming. You know what 17:41.720 --> 17:48.720 he sent me with his name on? A picture of your husband, John Hall. Say, what time you got? 17:48.720 --> 17:52.640 Ten past. Holy cow, I got to write my letter. I'll see you after you had your nap, Frances. 17:52.640 --> 17:59.640 You bet, soldier. A real GI Josephine, that gal. Is she really going to write to that man? 17:59.640 --> 18:04.560 Oh, that's just for laughs. She's going to write her brother now. He's got a bum lung 18:04.560 --> 18:09.600 or something so the Army wouldn't take him. He feels kind of bad about it, so Ryan is always 18:09.600 --> 18:14.200 writing him. Her brother is why she joined up. She figured if he couldn't fight, that 18:14.200 --> 18:20.560 she should. Then Ryan really likes the ranks, huh? She loves it. And if only they'd let 18:20.560 --> 18:33.760 us use guns, she'd be the happiest girl in the world. 18:33.760 --> 18:38.340 These three are strong, healthy women. Any war plant in America would pay them almost 18:38.340 --> 18:43.720 as much for a week as the Army pays them for a month. In this country, of course, they 18:43.720 --> 18:49.440 would have to face point rationing, gas rationing, shortages of non-essential goods, and the 18:49.440 --> 18:55.920 income tax. But they would be home and they would be safe. Instead, these girls, on their 18:55.920 --> 19:01.360 own free will, chose a job that brought them to blistering Africa and air raids and no 19:01.360 --> 19:08.500 extra pay for overtime. Private Ryan, even before you get to that beauty shop, you look 19:08.500 --> 19:18.120 mighty good to me. 19:18.120 --> 19:23.560 From Berserda, we flew to Sicily, where in a single show we performed to 19,000 men. 19:23.560 --> 19:28.960 Our stage was a captured Nazi tank. One day in Sicily, we played a hospital show. I'm 19:28.960 --> 19:32.720 walking down the corridor. On our way to the ward, we heard Latin coming from one of the 19:32.720 --> 19:43.880 small rooms. It was a Catholic chaplain administering the last rites. But we went on to the ward 19:43.880 --> 19:49.680 and did our show, and the wounded men enjoyed it very much. In this same hospital the next 19:49.680 --> 19:57.160 day, a nurse walked by me carrying a tray. Here, let me help you. 19:57.160 --> 19:58.160 I'm all right. 19:58.160 --> 19:59.160 Sit over here. 19:59.160 --> 20:00.160 Thanks. 20:00.160 --> 20:01.160 I'll get a doctor. 20:01.160 --> 20:07.440 No, don't. Don't. I'll be all right in a minute. 20:07.440 --> 20:08.440 I'm going to get a doctor. 20:08.440 --> 20:12.040 No, please. Please. I just need to rest a minute. 20:12.040 --> 20:14.280 You need to lie down, and you need a doctor. 20:14.280 --> 20:16.840 No, wait. Please. I don't want a doctor. 20:16.840 --> 20:17.840 What do you mean? 20:17.840 --> 20:20.640 I mean, they might send me home. 20:20.640 --> 20:21.920 Maybe they should send you home. 20:21.920 --> 20:27.520 No, no. It's nothing serious. Just that I'm, I guess, I'm getting older. 20:27.520 --> 20:28.960 Please let me get a doctor. 20:28.960 --> 20:35.080 No, no. Look, Miss Langford, I'm a nurse. I've been a nurse for 25 years. I know what 20:35.080 --> 20:40.800 I need and what I don't. Thanks for being worried, but nothing's going to happen to me. 20:40.800 --> 20:43.200 Give me a hand up, please. 20:43.200 --> 20:45.920 Well, at least you can rest a while. 20:45.920 --> 20:47.480 You're married, aren't you, girl? 20:47.480 --> 20:48.760 Yes, I am. 20:48.760 --> 20:55.480 So was I. My husband died in a French hospital in the last war. I don't know quite how he 20:55.480 --> 20:59.800 died, but maybe if he'd had a little better care, he wouldn't have. And if I sit here 20:59.800 --> 21:04.240 resting, well, what happened to my Fred might happen to some of these boys. 21:04.240 --> 21:08.480 I see what you mean. I talked with one kid in the ward who'd only been married a month 21:08.480 --> 21:09.480 before he came overseas. 21:09.480 --> 21:15.200 A month? If Fred and I were married just the day before he sailed for France. 21:15.200 --> 21:17.200 Nice. Nice. 21:17.200 --> 21:18.200 Coming. 21:18.200 --> 21:33.360 But of everything I saw and did, what moved me most happened not once, but every day in 21:33.360 --> 21:36.360 every camp at five o'clock. 21:36.360 --> 21:37.360 Attention! 21:37.360 --> 21:50.080 The flag was lowered, and in the faces of men, you saw what this was. It was home. It was 21:50.080 --> 21:53.720 Main Street. It was why. 21:53.720 --> 21:56.280 Ego some resurrects you. 21:56.280 --> 21:59.520 No, no, that's not the Popeye. 21:59.520 --> 22:01.200 Nurse, nurse. 22:01.200 --> 22:02.200 Coming. 22:02.200 --> 22:04.200 Just tell Maya Swami. 22:04.200 --> 22:09.560 So when we get the chance, we go all out feminine. She could have had leave and she wouldn't 22:09.560 --> 22:10.560 go. 22:10.560 --> 22:15.120 I guess what I really want to say is that I love her, and that I'm coming back to her, 22:15.120 --> 22:16.120 if I can. 22:16.120 --> 22:27.120 Please don't cry. Dry those blue eyes. I will come back. 22:27.120 --> 22:41.880 Someday. You will be in my memory. 22:41.880 --> 23:01.360 Every hour that I'm away. 23:01.360 --> 23:16.960 Dear, just remember, you shouldn't feel so blue. 23:16.960 --> 23:28.400 There are so many others who feel the way you do. 23:28.400 --> 23:42.600 I won't say when, but we'll meet again. 23:42.600 --> 23:47.800 Baby, try. 23:47.800 --> 24:12.440 And please don't cry. 24:12.440 --> 24:16.960 The DuPont Cavalcade thanks you, Francis Langford, June Lockhart, and Tony Romano for your report 24:16.960 --> 24:21.480 to us, and appreciates the fine work you and all the entertainment world are doing to brighten 24:21.480 --> 24:23.560 the days of our fighting men. 24:23.560 --> 24:26.720 Miss Langford has something to add to her report and will return to the microphone in 24:26.720 --> 24:27.920 just a few moments. 24:27.920 --> 24:31.900 Meanwhile, here is Gain Whitman speaking for DuPont to tell us of an interesting chemical 24:31.900 --> 24:36.800 treatment for seeds that benefits us all, whether we are farmers or not. 24:36.800 --> 24:42.600 Eating, somebody has remarked, is a habit. It certainly is. And it isn't limited to any 24:42.600 --> 24:44.440 one country either. 24:44.440 --> 24:49.760 The men and women and children of all nations have a firm, fixed habit of eating. So food 24:49.760 --> 24:54.360 must be grown for them to eat. And we've learned in this war that every extra ton of food we 24:54.360 --> 24:57.360 can produce is precious. 24:57.360 --> 25:01.560 Here is good news for the farmers of North and South America, and good news for all of 25:01.560 --> 25:04.800 us who eat what the farmers grow. 25:04.800 --> 25:09.120 Realizing their vital importance, this year enough mercury has been released to enable 25:09.120 --> 25:14.760 DuPont and other chemical companies to manufacture a full 1944 supply of mercuric seed treatment 25:14.760 --> 25:17.640 compounds for farmers. 25:17.640 --> 25:21.760 Whether you are a farmer or not, this affects you. It affects both the amount of food you 25:21.760 --> 25:26.040 will have in 1944 and the price you will pay for it. 25:26.040 --> 25:31.560 Take cotton, for instance. Cotton isn't a food crop? Oh, yes it is. Cotton seed is every 25:31.560 --> 25:35.960 bit as important as cotton fiber, because cotton seed is used in manufacturing many 25:35.960 --> 25:39.600 cooking oils and kitchen shortenings. 25:39.600 --> 25:43.720 Cotton farmers can plant their seed earlier, getting ahead of their dreaded enemy, the 25:43.720 --> 25:49.240 boll weevil, by using a seed disinfectant like DuPont sirisan, which gives the seed 25:49.240 --> 25:54.960 a protective coating. This coating safeguards the seed even in cold, damp soil in the early 25:54.960 --> 26:00.440 spring and makes it unnecessary for farmers to replant their cotton several times when 26:00.440 --> 26:03.640 soil conditions are unfavorable. 26:03.640 --> 26:08.960 Seed costs money. So does fertilizer. So does labor. All of them, in wartime, are hard to 26:08.960 --> 26:10.720 find. 26:10.720 --> 26:15.520 Seed treatment, treating seed with chemicals before it is planted, usually means bigger 26:15.520 --> 26:22.040 crops of better quality. Wheat, corn, beans, potatoes, practically every food plant known 26:22.040 --> 26:27.520 has its own diseases, carried in many cases on the seeds themselves. If nothing is done 26:27.520 --> 26:33.440 to combat them, these diseases reduce the amount of marketable food produced per acre. 26:33.440 --> 26:37.640 Now there are available not only different mercury seed disinfectants, but also a new 26:37.640 --> 26:43.320 seed treatment which contains an organic product and no mercury. This is arisan seed 26:43.320 --> 26:49.960 treatment. Arisan is an effective product for peanuts, corn, and certain vegetables. 26:49.960 --> 26:54.840 More and more farmers everywhere in the world are learning the value of seed treatment. 26:54.840 --> 27:00.080 So it's good news that in 1944, enough seed treating compounds to fill our needs will 27:00.080 --> 27:02.080 be available. 27:02.080 --> 27:07.400 Seed treating chemicals help to increase the United Nations wartime supply of food. Deserve 27:07.400 --> 27:13.280 honorable mention among DuPont's better things for better living through chemistry. 27:13.280 --> 27:24.280 And here is the star of tonight's cavalcade, Frances Lankford. 27:24.280 --> 27:29.160 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, I told you about a time in England when I 27:29.160 --> 27:37.800 saw 45 planes go out and the same 45 planes return. That was last summer. Yesterday, I 27:37.800 --> 27:46.280 met an officer who was at that field that day. Of those 45 planes, two remain. Is it 27:46.280 --> 28:03.720 really so tough to buy that extra war bond? 28:03.720 --> 28:08.240 Next week on the eve of Washington's birthday, DuPont presents Guy Kibbe, Dick Foran, and 28:08.240 --> 28:13.620 Wendy Barry in The Purple Heart Comes to Free Meadows, the warmly inspiring story of a young 28:13.620 --> 28:18.280 sergeant just returned from the war and a New England village eager to honor the first 28:18.280 --> 28:22.560 village boy to win the Purple Heart. It's a dramatic story, too, of the significance 28:22.560 --> 28:37.840 and brave tradition of the original Purple Heart awarded by General Washington. 28:37.840 --> 28:42.160 Frances Lankford appeared on cavalcade tonight through the courtesy of RKO Pictures. June 28:42.160 --> 28:45.360 Lockhart appeared through the courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, whose current production 28:45.360 --> 28:51.080 is Madame Currie. This is James Bannon sending best wishes from cavalcade sponsor, the DuPont 28:51.080 --> 28:55.860 Company of Wilmington, Delaware, who invites you to join cavalcade's audience next Monday 28:55.860 --> 29:00.880 when Guy Kibbe, Dick Foran, and Wendy Barry will be starred in The Purple Heart Comes 29:00.880 --> 29:05.240 to Free Meadows, the story of the Purple Heart and the brave tradition that surrounds it 29:05.240 --> 29:12.240 down to the present day.