The Cavalcade of America: The Justice and the Lady (Original script for the 1947 radio broadcast)
by Dorothy Gish, Basil Rathbone (starring)
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About This Item
New York: Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 radio show episode, originally broadcast on January 5, 1947. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the front wrapper.
The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of its arms race profiteering during World War I. In lieu of traditional advertising, creative director Roy Durstine proposed that DuPont sponsor "Cavalcade," which integrated the company's slogan ("Better Things For Better Living Through Chemistry") and agenda into its stories of American achievement and inspiration. The show was an early experiment in propagandistic corporate brand-building, virtually unprecedented for a company that had no commercially available products to market to the public. To further promote their clean, humanitarian ideals, DuPont shied away from using attention-grabbing tactics, such as the sound of gunfire, that were popular on other radio programs at the time-a choice that attracted pacifist writers such as Norman Rosten and Arthur Miller to the show.
This episode dramatizes the idyllic family life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and his wife Fanny, voiced respectively by actors Basil Rathbone and Dorothy Gish.
White titled self wrappers, dated 1/5/47, with credits for actors Dorothy Gish and Basil Rathbone. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 38 leaves, with last page of text numbered 35. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, unbound.
The anthology series was part of a campaign by the DuPont chemical corporation to rehabilitate its image following the public exposure of its arms race profiteering during World War I. In lieu of traditional advertising, creative director Roy Durstine proposed that DuPont sponsor "Cavalcade," which integrated the company's slogan ("Better Things For Better Living Through Chemistry") and agenda into its stories of American achievement and inspiration. The show was an early experiment in propagandistic corporate brand-building, virtually unprecedented for a company that had no commercially available products to market to the public. To further promote their clean, humanitarian ideals, DuPont shied away from using attention-grabbing tactics, such as the sound of gunfire, that were popular on other radio programs at the time-a choice that attracted pacifist writers such as Norman Rosten and Arthur Miller to the show.
This episode dramatizes the idyllic family life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and his wife Fanny, voiced respectively by actors Basil Rathbone and Dorothy Gish.
White titled self wrappers, dated 1/5/47, with credits for actors Dorothy Gish and Basil Rathbone. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 38 leaves, with last page of text numbered 35. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, unbound.
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- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: The Justice and the Lady (Original script for the 1947 radio broadcast)
- Author
- Dorothy Gish, Basil Rathbone (starring)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Radio Scripts | Radio | World War I
- Bookseller catalogs
- Radio Scripts; World War I; Radio;
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