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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Edwin Booth"
- Description
- Features The Cavalcade Players inc. Ray Collins, Karl Swenson and Bill Johnstone. Program dramatizes events in the life of actor Edwin Booth. Overture is "Make Believe".
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Local Identifier
- program_no:102
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101619
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Edwin Booth"
- Description
- Written by Norman Rosten and stars Paul Muni. Features John McIntire, Kenny Delmar, Ed Jerome, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer and Dick Stark, anncrs. Highlights from the life of the great American actor of Civil War times.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Local Identifier
- program_no:220
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101715
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Ed Jerome, Kenny Delmar, Bill Adams, Karl Swenson, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, others. Music by Donald Voorhees. Basil Ruysdael, Thomas Chalmers, anncrs. As an overture, Voorhees plays "I'll Follow My Secret Heart." Repeat broadcast of 6/29/38, highlighting the life of the founder of the Du Pont Company. Final CBS broadcast.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; DuPont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834
- Local Identifier
- program_no:167
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101664
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eliza Ann Brooks"
- Description
- Features Agnes Moorehead and the Cavalcade Players (Ray Collins, Karl Swenson, Bill Johnstone, others). Thomas Chalmers, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Wagon Wheels." Events in the story of the pioneer mother who crossed the American frontier to California alone, with her 6 children in a covered wagon.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Brooks, Eliza Ann
- Local Identifier
- program_no:159
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101657
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Elmer Ambrose Sperry"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players (inc. Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Bill Johnstone, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees offers "Whispers In The Dark". Episodes in the life of the great American inventor.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Sperry, Elmer Ambrose, 1860-1930
- Local Identifier
- program_no:107
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101624
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Enoch Crosby, The Spy"
- Description
- Stars Henry Hull with Ray Collins, John McIntyre, Ed Jerome and Kenny Delmar. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Ted Jewett, Basil Ruysdael, anncrs. The story of the great Revolutionary War spy, Enoch Crosby.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Crosby, Enoch, 1750-1835
- Local Identifier
- program_no:176
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101672
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Enterprise"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Johnstone, Orson Welles Bill Adams, Ray Collins. Ted Jewett, anncr. As an overture the orchestra plays "Country Gardens". Program dramatizes the life of Frederic Tudor, the man who brought ice to the tropics, and the new air route across the Pacific.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864
- Local Identifier
- program_no:17
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101584
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Ernestine Schumann-Heink"
- Description
- Starring Jeanette Nolan and Helen Oldheim. Program traces the life of the great German contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink from her beginning in Vienna, her first role, marriage, first major appearance in Carmen, night when she sang for Johannes Brahams, debut in America in Chicago performance of Lohengrin, first child born in America, Silent Night tradition Christmas Eve.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
- Local Identifier
- program_no:115
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101632
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Eve of Conflict"
- Description
- Written by Garrett Porter and stars Kenny Delmer. Features John McIntire and Bill Johnstone. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Donald Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the great Lincoln-Douglas debates prior to Lincoln's ascendancy to the Presidency.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
- Local Identifier
- program_no:240
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101733
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Fame in Literature"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade Players inc. Bill Adams, Bill Johnstone, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead. As an overture, the orchestra offers "Father of Waters" and "Huck Finn" from Grofe's "Mississippi Suite". Program highlights the life of Mark Twain, and the life of Louisa May Alcott .
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
- Local Identifier
- program_no:26
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101592
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Fat Girl"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and stars Edward Arnold. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. Featured at the conclusion of the broadcast are author Isabel Leighton and Captain John Phillips of the USS NEOSHO. The story of auxiliary oiler, the USS NEOSHO, taken from the true story "Fat Girl" by Isabel Leighton and Charles Rawlings.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; USS Neosho (Tanker)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:330
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101787
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Feast From the Harvest"
- Description
- Written and narrated by Louis Bronfield. Features Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, James McCallion Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Don Voorhees. Clayton Collyer, announcer. An original story about a wartime Thanksgiving.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Thanksgiving day
- Local Identifier
- program_no:306
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101788
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Flight Nurse"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and Charles Rabiner and co-stars Marsha Hunt and Majorie Reynolds. Features John McIntire and Howard McNear. Music by Robert Armbruster. Gayne Whitman, anncr. The story of how a transport crew and two plucky nurses brought their cargo of wounded through the dangers of Pacific storm.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:424
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101789
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Francis Scott Key"
- Description
- Stories from the life of the man who wrote the words of our National Anthem and featuring the events leading up to its composition.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Star-spangled banner (Song)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:120
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101568
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "From Emporia, Kansas"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Frank Readick and Parker Fenneley. Music by Don Voorhees with production by Homer Fickett. Ted Pearson, Roland Winters, announcers. The story of a newspaperman William Allen White.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; White, William Allen, 1868-1944
- Local Identifier
- program_no:391
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101790
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "George Gershwin"
- Description
- Thomas Chalmers, host. Basil Ruysdael, anncr. Music by Donald Voorhees. The life story of the great American composer from his days as a song plugger to his great musicals of the 1930's. Many of Gershwin's greatest songs are featured. With Bill Johnstone, Kenny Delmar, Ray Collins.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937
- Local Identifier
- program_no:154
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101652
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "George Washington, Farmer"
- Description
- Features the Cavalcade players (Bill Johnstone, Ed Jerome, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson, others). Music by Donald Voorhees. As an overture, Voorhees plays "Here In My Arms" by Rodgers & Hart. Program dramatizes Washington's efforts as a scientific farmer.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Local Identifier
- program_no:80
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101601
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Geronimo"
- Description
- Written by Peter Lyon and stars Kenny Delmar. Features Bill Johstone, John McIntire, Karl Swenson, Jeanette Nolan, Ed Jerome, Everett Sloane. Produced by Homer Fickett woith music by Don Voorhees. Bud Collyer, Dick Stark, anncrs. The story of the Apache chief Geronimo.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Geronimo, 1829-1909
- Local Identifier
- program_no:243
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101793
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "G.I. Valentine"
- Description
- Written by Frank Gabrielson and co-stars Frances Langford, June Lockhart and Tony Romano. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Bob Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of what one woman discovered about the country's fighting men-- their thoughts of home, wives, and sweethearts.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music
- Local Identifier
- program_no:370
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101792
- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "G.I.Circuit"
- Description
- Written by Paul Peters and co-stars Ann Sothern and Joe. E Brown. Produced by Homer Fickett with music by Robert Armbruster. James Bannon, Gayne Whitman, announcers. The story of the small-time vaudevillians and performers who made up the largest percentage of personnel in the USO camp shows.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; United Service Organizations (U.S.)
- Local Identifier
- program_no:375
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- Collection
- John R. Hickman Collection
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101791